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by sings 4mo ago
I find this idea of getting in early interesting, because it is completely novel to me. Is it common for people to derive so much pleasure from voting for something before it gathers momentum? You really lean into this idea, likening it to
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by sings 10mo ago
Being unscientific, societies veil deficient idiocies, reifying their weird, counterfeit policies.
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by sings 10mo ago
I agree. I occasionally turn to them to see if they work in a new setting, but find they never expose the features of a grid I would find useful. Everything must be manually placed, rather than allowing content to intelligently snap to mult
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by sings 10mo ago
I was looking at Marko a few years ago because of the concise syntax. I have always thought highly of Pug and would have loved a framework that integrated that sort of elegant, minimal syntax. Unfortunately, Marko doesn’t even get the synta
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by sings 11mo ago
What is remarkable is the frequency with which I’ve heard so-called subject matter experts do this on podcasts. It seems to me a very effective way to communicate your lack of any such expertise.
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by sings 11mo ago
Preview is genuinely very good, but it doesn’t handle annotations made in Acrobat very well. When navigating between annotations, they can become stuck open in Preview, and it is not possible to view insertions. Whether that is the fault of
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Which country is the most influential partner in Southeast Asia?(influence.lowyinstitute.org)
3 points by sings 1y ago|0 comments
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by sings 1y ago
This thread also makes me think of Susan Sontag’s essay On Style .
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by sings 1y ago
I suppose that would make those employing Boustrophedon ambidextrous? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
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by sings 1y ago
Agree that it seems like a pretty steep jump for my use cases too. Makes it clear how generous their free tier has been. Comparing the current free plan to the incoming one, as an example: - Unlimited deploys vs 10-15? - 100GB bandwidth vs
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by sings 1y ago
Not to mention the two-em-dash (U+2E3A) and three-em-dash (U+2E3B).
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by sings 1y ago
Another category, searchable interfaces, may fit into one of these or may be it’s own separate category. But tools like MacOS Spotlight or the command palette in some editors are very useful for power users. Having every command available t
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by sings 1y ago
Love the idea but today’s was not a good one.
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Generative Art Sketches by Grgrdvrt(grgrdvrt.com)
1 points by sings 1y ago|0 comments
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by sings 1y ago
As a metric user, this is an interesting point that I haven’t heard before, and I think the other responses don’t really engage with it. Yes, familiarity means this isn’t much of a daily problem – you just use divisions of the unit that are
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by sings 2y ago
Without meaning to high-jack this thread, you can do Base64 decoding here. Also no ads, 100% client-side, and no AI. But no string auto-detection either! https://www.takeymakey.com/convert/code/decode-base64/
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Five One-Chinas: The contest to define Taiwan(interactives.lowyinstitute.org)
2 points by sings 2y ago|0 comments
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Beampipe: Simple, free, privacy-focussed analytics(beampipe.io)
2 points by sings 2y ago|0 comments
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by sings 2y ago
I suppose there is no hard requirement for consistent saturation between hues, but that seems a bit inconsistent to my tastes. Darker yellow and orange colours seem a little too washed out. Overall I like the total palette though. Especiall
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Five One-Chinas: The contest to define Taiwan(interactives.lowyinstitute.org)
1 points by sings 2y ago|0 comments
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Mixbox: Natural color mixing based on real pigments(github.com)
2 points by sings 2y ago|0 comments
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Oklch-smooth – full spectrum sRGB colour palette for data viz(s-ings.com)
2 points by sings 2y ago|0 comments
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by sings 2y ago
Knowing which font is used with a hundred percent certainty, maybe not. This probably is something more people should be aware of. But the failure mode might be some slightly awkward line breaks, assuming you allow for the edge case of alte
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by sings 2y ago
I’ve been using a similar technique to display our poll data[1] for several years, although without using grid. If you can measure the text because you know which font will be used, and store the widths of various characters, you can take a
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by sings 2y ago
I made a little platform to house some of my simple tools. It is part REPL, part form-builder. All tools run on the client, which constrains what is possible, but still proves useful for many basic applications. For example, convert Word to
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by sings 3y ago
It is limited and depends on the browser used to print the document. The most glaring missing feature is CMYK colour. I’ve just set up our publications to use PagedJS, and with a fair amount of hacking I was able to set up a baseline grid.
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by sings 3y ago
Reddit has been using these fonts internally for a few years in their marketing. They were not available to the public. They have been made available this week, hence the announcement. (The Github repo was made public a few weeks ago in pr
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by sings 3y ago
It's a shame, because I thought font snobbery might encourage some interesting discussion here. But on your second point -- there are two lowercase "l" glyphs, of which the default option is not purely rectangular. Without
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by sings 3y ago
The large size is due to the number of glyphs and alternate styles. If you want a smaller footprint, I'd suggest subsetting the font as needed. There are also 6 ready-made subsets[1], each about 15kb, matching these unicode ranges. The
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by sings 3y ago
There is some work to do still[1], but a variable version will probably be available once the fonts are released on the Google Fonts service. [1]: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/6812

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