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A few different resources with various ways to go about it, one of which may be near what you were hoping for: FontStruct: https://fontstruct.com/ Calligraphr: https://www.calligra…

If anyone’s wondering why this replier is so angry, it’s because they spent a lot of time arguing with people further down the comment section over whether this article is too heav…

This is such a weird counter-argument, that only serves to prove OP’s point. “It’s not that it’s not documentable. It’s just that it would take tens of thousands of pages and no on…

This website lists no sources, no author, and all of the content is littered with traces of being AI-generated (both in the table and in the descriptions). It seems hard to trust a…

Check their ledger for a full database of the goods and bads: https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/

That's fair. I'm also heavily opposed to VC-funded, market-distorting behaviors and the later extraction-oriented outcomes they produce. In this case I was framing it in terms that…

Under that logic is a free trial a bait and switch? How about a 1-month free deal? How about what Adobe (and many others) do where they license to the school and students get it fr…

The article makes a good point about how Figma's non-open data model is limiting their utility as the source of truth. But I think it's part of a larger mistake Figma is making: th…

It would be nice if the “optimal” view visualized both my solution and the optimal one at the same time, like a Venn diagram.

That wasn’t my experience, having just driven across the city and back during tonight’s outage. It was actually weirdly inspiring how well people coordinated at so many of the powe…

So, just to make it clear… you define good art by “whether the artist is any good at art”. Illuminating… —— For anyone who’s interested in a slightly more nuanced take on how peopl…

I agree with you to a degree. I considered that as a reason as well, and "meeting people where they are" in communication design is something I think about a lot. But if using an a…

I can't help but feel that this article was written in a format that is the textual equivalent of thin desires… Every sentence is separated into its own paragraph, like each one is…

Nong's is insanely good. You can actually buy her sauce online now, in case you ever want to have a go at making it at home — https://khaomangai.com/products/nongs-khao-man-gai-sau…

Basing it around the act of selling data seems like a much better approach to me than what OP suggested, I agree. I imagine there are edge cases to consider around how acquisitions…

No I don’t think it’s “very hard”. But I also don’t pretend like OP that it’s super simple, only to suggest a law that would make most people criminals. I think regulation is criti…

Not saying I agree with OP, but for the law you described: any photo you take of a license plate on your smartphone would fit that description (unless you’ve explicitly disabled th…

Is it live yet? I'd love to see it whenever it is.

Seeing this on the front page again prompted me to dig into some of the Whole Earth Catalog successor publications for the first time. I came across an article in Whole Earth Softw…

Then why does the product description continually reiterate how “real” the conversations are?

It seems fairly easy to figure this out with a little thought… When talking to a chatbot you're likely to type more words per query, as a simple measure. But you're also more likel…

I completely agree. Paper was so frictionless that you could actually use it as a tool to think and sketch ideas with. Instead of Notion which feels clunky just to type in.

The way Dropbox has mismanaged Paper over the past decade, and squandered so many opportunities in the productivity tools space, has been one of the most frustrating things to watc…

One way to gain a different perspective could be to ask a similar question, but replace typographic adjustments with something in your domain of expertise that requires deeper expe…