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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:49PM (#45646061)
Here as well…
Re:Just Let Me Select Text on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @04:11PM (#45365405)
I love you
Re:One Square Minesweeper on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @02:13AM (#41922306)
It BSODs!
Re:Renderings Created with Only a Pencil on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:16AM (#41288019)
I think most people (safely) assume that saying such a thing won’t cause this response and some might say it because they find it a funny thing to say. I can imagine some people in my close circle of friends/family that might say it, but if they’ll find that it caused such a disastrous situation they will feel very bad…
Re:Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting on Thursday August 15, 2024 @12:23AM (#41253068)
Fonts are awesome, I once made a font that embeds (guitar) chords as ligatures, so when you write the they “stick” to the words they belong to.

https://tunetype.com

Re:Show HN: I made a tool to compare Timezones on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:04AM (#38889492)
Assuming you live in Germany you could type “14:00 in LA”
What you suggested lastly is possible, most work will be coming up with a dumbed down editor for such a font. Per each ligature, the user should be able to provide a SVG(?) and control its y-offset and scale (currently I use the same values for all the ligatures).

DM me at Twitter (@verydutzi) if you want to talk about it, I’d be happy to!

Another thing about these chords ligatures is that they are “zero-width”. When you type /a/ it will get replaced with a the ligature for the A chords, which is a the shape of “A”, above the line (translateY: -150%), and report “advanceWidth: 0”, so the next character shares the same X position. Now, if you want to add m6 to it, I technically cannot support rendering it “to the right of the A”, since its width was set to 0. So I need to pack the font itself with both the A and the Am6 ligatures…

I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org

Not sure why you got downvoted as well, that was very educating.

I never studied music theory, but I play guitar for >20 years, so I just picked some library I found that listed a few common chords, and put it there.

I never (knowingly) played a D6, so didn’t know to look for that one in particular :)

I’ll add the option extend the list, and see if I can find a better list of defaults.

The thing about those ligatures is that each one adds a bit to the font’s weight, they’re not referencing one another - it’s a lot of duplicated “paths” (and IIRC I can define up to 65,536 in total).

If memory serves me right, Mari uses it for her art.

https://www.instagram.com/madmaraca

Re:Open-source canvas drawing web app, built using React on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:54PM (#37040821)
Nice! Check out Konva and React Konva as well :)
Re:Ink: React for interactive command-line apps on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @02:14AM (#35870751)
~2 years ago I used it to create a dashboard (a fancy table) that renders some data it fetches sporadically from the web.

It was a lot of fun to make and stylize, but felt slower than it should. I guess it was the “layout stage” (IIRC lots of h/v-boxes).

It was 2 years ago and seems like it’s been well maintained, so maybe they sorted those things out.

Re:When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:59PM (#35389943)
There was also the Adobe Loves Apple campaign

https://www.fastcompany.com/1646594/adobe-launches-hearts-an...

Re:Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:01PM (#35375811)
Lovely website <3
Re:Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:00PM (#35375799)
Lovely website!
Re:Hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:59AM (#28273895)
A popular story told to Israeli Defense Army soldiers who serve at checkpoints is of this gesture: https://i.ibb.co/ZBJSY1c/image.png

Apparently, in Italy it sort-of means "go f*ck yourself" (for Italian hnewers, this means "please wait" for the rest of the world).

The story tells about a soldier who once did that gesture to a car carrying some Italian politician, on their way to the West Bank.

Don't remember the rest of the story now, but it did not end well.