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on what basis do you believe this about fonts? my guess would be that the average user doesn’t install or remove fonts often if ever, but it’s only a guess

fond memories modifying the variable for velocity in GORILLA.BAS before I really knew what velocity was :)

It’s possible you have a small sample.. I have not noticed “total domination” myself. The type foundries I know and sometimes work with are split. Many use RoboFont. FontLab is less common, but there are some shops that have invested in it deeply enough they’re still using older versions, even. And others develop their own tools, like Fontra, to better address challenges in CJK type design

RoboFont is deeply tied to the Type & Media program at KABK in the Hague. And it has a long history, building off what came before - it is both font software and pedagogy. My memory on this isn’t perfect but I believe Glyphs and RoboFont were both proposals around the time the UFO spec was being formalized

sub7 was a windows binary (client and server), but it’s possible there was an unofficial perl interface for it or something similar. the perl era definitely saw a lot of precursors to modern C2 dashboards

it was eye opening as a young person to learn how to change the path of a folder on a hotline server to ../ with a debugger

it looks like it can’t be disabled for view-once media (or at least, that’s what the settings screen says)

hetzner is really known for its german bandwidth prices, a change in the US is fairly insignificant IMO. for most applications you could just put a free CDN in front of the cheaper german service to reach the US

> what other font editors moreover to Glyph (mac only) have good support for advanced contextual alternates ?

any font editor that supports writing opentype feature code manually. glyphs for mac won’t really help you here: while glyphs will do its best to autogenerate as much opentype for you as it can, it doesn’t do much (anything?) for calt features

I would pronounce it tee-vix, because of the stock ticker symbol TVIX[0] which was a leveraged volatility ETN and very popular in its day. a little too popular - credit suisse delisted it a couple months after the initial market crash brought on by the pandemic caused it to skyrocket

naming is hard :)

0. https://www.thestreet.com/etffocus/market-intelligence/rip-t...

a variable font is a more generic term than a metafont. it’s a bit pedantic but while both have parameters, a metafont is usually parametrically generated based on its concept of a pen, whereas a variable font usually has different parameters that have been defined by manual bezier drawings. I don’t remember if metafont itself can produce a variable font but people have used metapost to go to SVG and then UFO (font source) from there

the site needs a big novelty cursor to complete the look

> has had any ability to tell me where, how often, or even whether a particular component is in use in the production UI

I built a dashboard to display this for the design system I work on at my day job to give product designers better visibility into production, using a library called react-scanner[0] and some logic related to the way our different product repos are structured / places where the component names are different between figma and react. there are probably other libraries for this sort of thing in different ecosystems, and you can always build your own with a parser as well.

[0] https://github.com/moroshko/react-scanner

all google fonts are OFL (the copyleft SIL open font license[0]) with the exception of some legacy fonts which are apache 2. they don’t publish fonts that aren’t OFL anymore

0. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...

beuckelaer predates him in terms of ordinary subject matter, but I don't know if the line is so straight anyway. a couple hundred years later courbet's work was more a rejection of neoclassicism than it was a continuation of any proto-realist's work

absolutely a response to perl. “TOOWTDI” has been an expression in the python community for a long time :)

craigslist is the first one that comes to mind

I agree. for some reason I don’t think they’d use this language reporting on amazon…

congrats on the launch!

> “I’m like, Giannis, you can’t be having accounts at 50 different banks. Let me tell you something, if JPMorgan goes under, your little dinky banks are going to go under too."

but isn't that the point - *when* they go under, each dinky bank's $250k is 100% FDIC insured?

a telehealth-only practice inherently cannot provide the same benefits, no?

> I ignore the junk. This is the price you have to pay when you get something for free.

clearly it isn’t, or the author wouldn’t have been able to move to a free alternative without any junk to ignore.

another example of this kind of intentionality from nintendo is the curve on top of SNES, which is there to discourage setting drinks on top of it, unlike the NES before it

this is a great abuse of GSUB tables

just van rossum’s rubik’s cube is another recent example of font layout gone too far: https://twitter.com/justvanrossum/status/1340960087750402048...

independent media would probably do well to look at independent infrastructure. owncast[1] is an interesting project (no affiliation), I’d be curious if there are more like it.

1. https://github.com/owncast/owncast

I wonder if you're thinking of netzero - IIRC they did this after they became a paid service, to market their 56k offering against early DSL

I disagree with legislation being an easy path forward. legislation takes a long time. for example, we are 12 years into jewel v. NSA. even if you do change the law, lawmakers can create (and other governmental bodies can apply) other, conflicting law. it's very cat-and-mouse in the age of the PATRIOT act, secret courts, etc.

> Also, while I can't confirm the prevalence, there's a ton of anecdotes you here about shady hiring practices. There's the now popular story about a department refusing to hire people who had too high an IQ

this is not just anecdotal, and has even been tested in court[0].

0. https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...

tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofits in the US are required to file IRS form 990[1] which sheds some light on the financials of the organization. it doesn't mean that the organization is run efficiently or puts money to good use, but it does increase transparency[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_990

2. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/

the audio on wire is great, too. I agree adoption has been slow.

> But I'm not a cryptographer and am unable to verify the company's security claims.

wire has been independently audited (protocol and application):

https://medium.com/@wireapp/wire-application-level-security-...