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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 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

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…

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,_... Unemployme…

Facebook’s response to this story is revealing: > "We’re not going to debate the disgruntled litigants and anonymous sources who seek to rewrite Facebook’s early history or embarra…

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 Bi…

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…

They don't call it the Grauniad for nothing! See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye#In-jokes