@mikkomononen.bsky.social - Mikko Mononen

27 Mar 2026 07:06 +0000

I have been working on data inheritance recently. The kind of stuff that you usually see with prefabs, but I believe that all the assets should support data inheritance.

13 Nov 2025 21:17 +0000

Links... links are special. Usually you pick the text style from the previous character, so that if you write something after a bold text, it will be bold. Except links, where the style does not "bleed". It's ok to type in the middle, though.

29 Oct 2025 11:34 +0000

I have been working recently on input rules for the skribidi editor. Stuff like: - what happens when you press enter after a header - automatically starting a list when you start a line with -, - or stuff like keeping the tabs in taps when typing code (who uses spaces, anyways!)

14 Oct 2025 18:27 +0000

So nice to finally get to the actual rich text editing, not just the stuff that enables it. Still ways to go, but baby steps. There's a lot of rich text editing tricks to discover, like that when you press enter after a header, you will automatically get body text style.

25 Sep 2025 21:08 +0000

I've been working on paragraph styling support for skribidi. My goal is to support roughly markdown for the rich text rendering and editing. I'm trying my best to not make things complicated. For example I really would like to avoid adding hierarchy to the text.

15 Sep 2025 19:20 +0000

For the past weeks I have been writing and refactoring things to get rich text editing to work in Scribidi. It's so close now. There are always tons of small details, like changing the caret to preview the italic/oblique.

11 Sep 2025 18:35 +0000

I kinda wish the situation around char32_t was not such a mess.

25 Aug 2025 19:41 +0000

The hardest part about rich text editing so far has been trying to remember that you have to actually have bold, italic and bold+italic fonts loaded if you want to see them bold and italics. Gladly harfbuzz has embolden and slant so that I can fake it.

23 Aug 2025 21:35 +0000

There's still heaps to do, but...

21 Aug 2025 18:42 +0000

I've been looking a nice representation of style spans for the Skribidi rich text editor. Something that let's me store info: "from here to there text is bold". It should also support combining such spans using add or remove a span. And I wanted it to be "not much more complex than bit vector".

19 Aug 2025 19:36 +0000

I've been working on things that will allow users of Skribidi to create hyperlink or button kind of interactions. The biggest struggle is how to make things simple. I dont want to include an UI library in the text library (that would be another project). But it should not be too hard either.

01 Aug 2025 19:20 +0000

I have been working on inline objects for Skribidi. Things like icons and stuff that you want to embed in the text. This merited another visit to the vertical text alignment rabbit hole. A lot of frustration and hopefully a solution.

28 Jul 2025 21:12 +0000

I have been working on text alignment, wrapping and overflow for Skribidi. It's been pretty hard to find a good reference since the CSS in that area does not feel very solid to me. Ended up with some parts of CSS and some parts of Figma.

25 Jul 2025 15:37 +0000

Any caveas using symlinks on Windows? Context: In the Skribidi project, I have a set of assets that the example needs (fonts, etc). Currently they are copied to the bin folder in windows, and symlink on other systems. I wonder if there's something with Windows symlinks that will say meh?

20 Jul 2025 08:27 +0000

Sum types have been in the lime light recently. Is there a lang where the user (of a library) can "append" to a sum type?

15 Jul 2025 06:58 +0000

The devil is in the details! In design, things are often made just a bit different so that they appear consistent and balanced. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(typography) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_margin_alignment [contains quote post or other embedded content]

01 Jul 2025 17:37 +0000

Implemented the actual underline patterns for Skribidi. A bit more plumbing that I hoped for, but not it's done.

19 Jun 2025 19:44 +0000

I have recently been working on how to represent text attributes (color, font, underline, etc) for Skribidi. It's coming together and managed to get underline working.

11 Jun 2025 18:35 +0000

One of the text input features I have been wanting to try out is input method editors (IME). Felt like 🪱🥫so I have been postponing it. The IME itself is not part of Skribidi, it should be handled by the platform abstraction, but showing the IME composition is.

09 Jun 2025 17:20 +0000

Spent couple of hours trying to get the Skribidi example to run on the web. Tried to follow a couple of examples, but they just did not work, or I did not have something installed (e.g. emcmake). Maybe one day I'll try that again.

05 Jun 2025 08:02 +0000

I just published the bidi text stuff I have been working the past months. It's called Skribidi (because all text and font related things need funny name for some reason). https://github.com/memononen/Skribidi

04 Jun 2025 12:12 +0000

What is the best practice for texture uploads these days? Thinking of atlas texture update API. Can I do a bunch of small updates, or one big? Last time I checked, the upload overhead was so big that one upload was better than many small.

30 May 2025 09:47 +0000

I'm almost done with the first version of my text library thing. The stuff left to do are api docs and allowing to exit the sample app (I have a feeling that some of the games I worked in the past had similar final showstopper too :)).

27 May 2025 22:29 +0000

I've been looking into vertical align of text. Yes, it's complicated (confusingly convoluted) as anything else in the text layout and rendering world. This is great write up on the topic (and very timely for me!) https://wolthera.info/2025/04/going-in-depth-on-font-metrics/