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> Go to restaurant > Order food > Food comes out as raw, unprepared ingredients > Complain to chef > Tells me to go cook it myself > wtf, I'm not here to do work for free > "Is doi…

There might be something valuable in this article, but if the you couldn't be bothered to write it yourself, why should we be bothered to read it?

Good call. I've updated to release script to always include the SRI hash in the README sample.

Yes! Just added support for them today after another HN user’s request: https://github.com/lyallcooper/justif/issues/3

Good eye! The space in "No. 12" would traditionally get a thin space [0] in professionally typeset documents, which is smaller than the standard space used for inter-word and inter…

It should be when the screen width is less than 456 css px with the current configuration.

Thankfully the unit it operates on is a paragraph, not the whole body of text. Also thankfully computers are very fast these days! I added the “Alice in Wonderland (long)” text sam…

The layout is done entirely in DOM. The layout engine calculates the line breaks, tracking, expansion, etc. then applies the layout using HTML spans with the appropriate attributes…

That's not something justif supports directly right now. It currently targets rectangular blocks, not arbitrary edge shapes. But the underlying line-breaking approach could accommo…

It is the default if you open the demo on a narrow screen! It has a more striking difference between browser and justif layouts at narrow widths than the Alice sample. But maybe yo…

Hyphenation: yes, justif does its own hyphenation. It ships with TeX’s hyphenation dictionaries for a bunch of languages, but supports custom dictionaries as well! See https://gith…

Yes, there is something to be said for this argument. Debit card and cash users pay slightly higher prices than they might otherwise, which do subsidize the rewards of credit card …

You hear this argument pretty often, but it's not true. Credit card companies do make a lot of money off of interest. But they also make a lot of money off of interchange fees. Bus…

Thank you! And yes by default TeX doesn't do tracking or expansion, but the microtype [0] package does. And I did struggle a bit with deciding how best to do the comparison to nati…

Justif is a drop-in JavaScript library that progressively enhances web pages to TeX-level text justification. Installation is a single line, standard text and accessibility afforda…

I've long been a fan of justified text. I think it looks clean and elegant. But I've always been disappointed by how browsers render it, with gaping spaces that distract me to the …

If you saw TFA and thought "hmmm yes, I know some of those words", then I can recommend the author's own lecture series on YouTube [0]. It's an intro to and overview of category th…

Agree with many other comments. Backrest is good and works well for me, though it certainly has its UI/UX quirks that hold it back from being truly great.

I’m going through something similar but with English instead of Spanish. That’s why I added the “kana readable” and “kana faithful” dimensions.

I don’t have a way to check built in right now. But you can look at the 2020 data here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackerb9/ssa-baby-names/re... If your name is on there it’…

If you’ve got a name that is very rare in the US then it’s possible! Any name that had at least 15 registered births over the last three years in the SSA data is included.

I've been trying to find some good baby names, so naturally I've been playing around with the US Social Security Administration's name data[0]. I've made various visualizations, tr…

I agree, the worst part about climate change is motorcyclists riding past this guy's house.