--- title: "We always get distracted IMMEDIATELY" url: https://daily.dev/posts/we-always-get-distracted-immediately-54co7sd9w source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtT3xZIC490 type: video:youtube source: "sphaerophoria" published: 2026-06-07T23:05:07.109Z updated: 2026-06-07T23:30:56.176Z tags: ["rust"] reading_time: 118 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # We always get distracted IMMEDIATELY **[sphaerophoria](https://daily.dev/sources/sphaerophoria)** · 118 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A live coding session building a custom GUI framework from scratch, focusing on fixing a cursor alignment bug caused by space characters lacking glyph bounding boxes in the custom text layout engine. The session dives deep into TTF/OpenType font internals including glyph metrics, baselines, ascenders/descenders, and the BASE table. After fixing the space bug, the developer refactors keyboard input handling to separate character code points from key events, then implements a keymapper abstraction and adds Ctrl+A select-all and Ctrl+Backspace delete-word functionality to the textbox widget. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/we-always-get-distracted-immediately-54co7sd9w)