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May 2025
34m 42s

Little By Little

Hyperfixed & Radiotopia
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Astrid designs music hardware, and specifically circuitboards. And over the past few years, she's fallen in love with a specific font. But the software the font is in is being discontinued, and there's no way to export it. Where did it come from? Can she rescue it from the program it’s trapped in?

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