What would be super awesome would be a daily drumbeat about how to slim down and simplify applications, with working, open-sourced code.<p>Here, I&#x27;ll beat a drum a little.  Maybe it will inspire somebody.<p>I just wrote this tiny text-rendering engine, mostly yesterday at lunch.  On one core of my laptop, it seems able to render 60 megabytes per second of text into pixels in a small proportional pixel font, with greedy-algorithm word wrap.  That means it should be able to render all the comments on this Hacker News comment page in 500 microseconds.  (I haven&#x27;t yet written box-model layout for it yet, but I think that will take less time to run, just because there are so many fewer layout boxes than there are pixel slices of glyphs.)  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;canonical.org&#x2F;~kragen&#x2F;sw&#x2F;dev3&#x2F;propfont.c" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;canonical.org&#x2F;~kragen&#x2F;sw&#x2F;dev3&#x2F;propfont.c</a><p>The executable, including the font, is a bit under 6 kilobytes, or 3 kilobytes gzipped.