dmerfield

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by dmerfield 7y ago
Not sure if you’re hinting at this but President Clinton was actually caught renting out a room in the White House: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Bedroom_for_contribu...
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by dmerfield 7y ago
The NHS front-end library is a particularly thoughtful set of interface components: - https://nhsuk.github.io/nhsuk-frontend/ - https://github.com/nhsuk/nhsuk-frontend I’ve cherrypicked a few here a
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by dmerfield 8y ago
I'm sceptical but more than happy to be wrong. Fonts are surprisingly complicated software and my suspicion is that the market of people who casually want to make them is small. If someone interested in learning how to make fonts asked
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Note that there is a powerful and stable font editor called FontForge, widely used by professional type designers, which happens to be GPL-licensed: https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/
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by dmerfield 8y ago
No it doesn’t. Free speech means allowing nazis to express themselves so you and others can understand nazism. If you’re genuinely interested in understanding the principle of free speech, I recommend this as an introduction: https:/&
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Per Ch 37, Sec. 202.1(e) of the Code of Federal Regulations, typefaces cannot be copyrighted in the United States: https://www.bitlaw.com/source/37cfr/202_1.html Note that although the design of the typeface is no
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Silicon Valley struggle sessions (2017)(jacobitemag.com)
1 points by dmerfield 8y ago|0 comments
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by dmerfield 8y ago
The product you describe (“I maintain a local dropdown folder full of markdown files. At an interval or when one changes, there's a hook that automatically updates the content of my site.“) is something I’ve built: https://b
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by dmerfield 8y ago
The article is worth reading in its entirety but here is the thesis: "Emoji is a language of borrowed “words” “curated” by technocrats (experts, presumably of technology, at the Unicode Consortium), who release those new “words” to pla
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Emoji resistance(schuth.xyz)
2 points by dmerfield 8y ago|1 comments
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In support of free speech (Update)(tobi.lutke.com)
1 points by dmerfield 8y ago|0 comments
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by dmerfield 8y ago
You are correct and it will be fixed. The rate limit on LE certificates for subdomains was too low for my usage. Since LE have recently released support for wildcard certs, I will be enabling HTTPS traffic on Blot subdomains as soon as I c
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Understood. It's on the list → https://blot.im/updates (under payment methods)
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Have fixed this, not sure what I was thinking.
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Blot recently added support for git, I just haven’t updated the homepage to reflect this: https://twitter.com/Blot__/status/996506149712211968
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Glad to hear you like it so far. I’m working on a redesign of the dashboard to bring it in line with the front-facing site. I know it’s not good enough as it is and I promise it’ll be fixed. p.s. I recently added support for git if you’d ra
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Should be fixed now. One of the servers went down and was struggling to restart under the increased load.
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by dmerfield 8y ago
The map of Protestants and Catholics is the one that leaps out at me as aligning quite closely: Religion: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Catholicism,_... Unemployment: http://thesoundingline.
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Facebook’s response to this story is revealing: > "We’re not going to debate the disgruntled litigants and anonymous sources who seek to rewrite Facebook’s early history or embarrass Mark Zuckerberg with dated allegations. The unque
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Glad to hear it but that's not what my email said. Here's the only mention of pricing in the email I received: > Since you used Stripe Subscriptions in the past year, the Stripe Billing Starter plan is included in your current
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by dmerfield 8y ago
But with the additional fee, right?
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by dmerfield 8y ago
Does this mean I can still create classic subscriptions (that are free of the 0.4% surcharge) and process them myself? Edit: The answer is no. This announcement has burnt through a lot of goodwill that’s accumulated over the years. Not cool
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by dmerfield 8y ago
They don't call it the Grauniad for nothing! See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye#In-jokes
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Digital resistance is deletion(chrbutler.com)
1 points by dmerfield 9y ago|0 comments
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by dmerfield 9y ago
Oops, I was working on the documentation earlier today. Will fix those broken links tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know!
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by dmerfield 9y ago
I run a small blogging platform ( https://blot.im ) and get a steady stream of Medium-apostates who've made this realization. Medium is a deeply flawed product and is not designed in the best interests of its writers or its r
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Dinner, Disrupted (2016)(nytimes.com)
1 points by dmerfield 9y ago|0 comments
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by dmerfield 9y ago
They're the hardest people to defend and that's exactly why their freedom of speech needs to be defended. When you can't say 'fuck', you can't say 'fuck the draft': https://en.wikipedia.org
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by dmerfield 9y ago
Right, when Patreon started kicking off people on the fringes of the political spectrum (Nazis, Antifa, Alt-right) they moved to a 'free-speech' alternative called Hatreon: https://hatreon.net/
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by dmerfield 9y ago
By not using Facebook's app.

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