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It's intentionally public. The news page is generated from todo.txt and my git commit messages: https://blot.im/news

Is it possible that you are in India and affected by recurring billing regulations? Email us and we'll get you up and running: https://blot.im/contact

Fair point – I have just added: https://blot.im/pricing

I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today. The goal of Blot is to b…

Thanks for contributing – Rakhim created the 'questions' forum: https://blot.im/questions

It’s close to being conveniently self-hostable: https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot

The timeout for the requests issued by the uptime monitor was set a little too low – the uptime monitor mistakenly believed the service was not responding (it was, but slowly)

I'm responsible for hosting the website (I'm not the author of the post). Just wanted to say sorry for the outage. Issue was triggered by an aggressive uptime monitor which was fre…

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 cherryp…

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…

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-…

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…

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 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 m…

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 Un…

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 …

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