I’ve been closing super old Acorn bug reports on SVG parsing things, which the next release (8.5) does now.

I feel kind of bad saying “it’s fixed now, 5-8 years later!”, but I suppose it’s better late than never.

Thanks to @danielpunkass, TIL auto-synthesized and CIFilter don’t mix: <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coreimage/cifilter-swift.class?language=objc#Subclassing-notes>

> Don’t use auto-synthesized instance variables, because their names are automatically prefixed with an underscore. Instead, synthesize the property manually.

How did I not know this!? Also it explains a crash I was getting (which is what prompted Jalkut helping me. Danke, buddy).

Whoa: <https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html>

> What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception.
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> Therefore, effective today, I am permanently and irrevocably dedicating the Slug patent to the public domain.

Liquid Pro: <https://shapeof.com/archives/2026/3/liquid_pro.html>

> If Apple was to move away from Liquid Glass on MacOS, how would they do it?