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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...

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 and there for a number of projects and they’ve worked well.

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 me for advice, I'd recommend he invest his time in FOSS software rather than proprietary tools which can (and do) fold and disappear. I've worked through FontForge's Beginners' guide and I'd recommend it to people with even a minor interest in type. You'll learn a lot beyond how to use the software itself:

http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/index.html

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/

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://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/

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 not copyrightable, the computer programs which generate typefaces (‘fonts’) contain elements which are:

https://www.copyright.gov/history/mls/ML-443.pdf

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://blot.im

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 platform vendors like Apple, Google, Facebook, & Twitter, who then decide how their users can express these “words” by altering their visual representation. (See Emojipedia for myriad examples ranging from humorous differences in artistic taste to clear differences in meaning.)"

I shared the article because it articulates the feeling I've long held that there is something Orwellian about emoji.

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 can.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-production-envir...

Understood. It's on the list → https://blot.im/updates (under payment methods)

Have fixed this, not sure what I was thinking.

Blot recently added support for git, I just haven’t updated the homepage to reflect this:

https://twitter.com/Blot__/status/996506149712211968

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 rather not use Dropbox (https://twitter.com/Blot__/status/996506149712211968). And as a point of trivia, Blot launched just under four years ago here on HN in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183498

Should be fixed now. One of the servers went down and was struggling to restart under the increased load.

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.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/EU-and...

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 pricing.

The Stripe billing starter plan says it's free for the first $1m, 0.4% surcharge after that. Am I missing something?

But with the additional fee, right?

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!

They don't call it the Grauniad for nothing!

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye#In-jokes

Oops, I was working on the documentation earlier today. Will fix those broken links tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know!

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 readers. I recommend The Billionaire's Typewriter by Matthew Butterick if you're interested in why this is so:

https://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html

Medium's trendy design can be enticing but I'd try to steer people towards a platform over which they have control.

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/wiki/Cohen_v._California

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/

By not using Facebook's app.

Not it's not. It's time to stop supporting ad-based businesses. Install an adblocker. Install an adblocker on your friends' and family's computers.