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You can commission a custom typeface (or a modification of an existing one from their library) and get the rights to them, so they're yours. It's expensive up front, but you own it…

3x5 like done by Starting Strength continues to work well for beginners looking for strength. After you tapped out the easy gains, you can use a periodized program for body buildin…

We had to drop hatch for now, because it does not work well with uv's lockfiles. Someone opened an issue here: https://github.com/pypa/hatch/issues/1886 . We use bare uv for now.

English is more likely than Mandarin, because lots of people (including the mainland Chinese working in sectors that interface with the outside world) can speak some English, but v…

Not sure about an app, I keep a Jupyter notebook for meal planning and double checking calorie intake, with info from https://www.nutracheck.co.uk/CaloriesIn/Product/Search?desc=..…

Nit: the option does not hint, it emboldens text, as in, smears it a bit to make it appear thicker. And I think the default is actually 2?

Yeah, I also got an ODAC combo (amp and DAC sandwiched in an enclosure) in continuous use since it released way back when. The only annoyance is that there's probably something wro…

You can use the Python library fontTools, which comes with a command line tool called `fonttools varLib`. Prerequisites: 1. you have a so called Designspace file which tells the to…

The books "The Barbell Prescription" and "Practical Programming for Strength Training" contain a lot of info on how to branch out from the novice program. The latter contains a sma…

Can you expand on why you think it's a waste of time?

Maybe https://startingstrength.com/article/barbell_training_is_big... is more to your liking?

My favorite introduction to this is the book "The Barbell Prescription", together with "Basic Barbell Training, 3rd Edition". They got me out of just getting sweaty and tired in th…

I still don't like the tight spacing (space between the glyphs). Adding a `letter-spacing: 0.1px` to the Regular makes words look less cramped at body copy size.

It does carry meaning, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect . It's not something to know during downtimes, but at the point in time where you decide which technology to u…

I've seen this plenty of times before. What is it with emulation and drama/toxicity?

Using this to equalise my headphones with the parameter sets on https://github.com/jaakkopasanen/AutoEq . Highly recommended!

Thanks for this tool! I wanted to look into switching some packages to be abi3 wheels because of the mentioned build matrix, will play with this :)

I've recently started listening to relationship/dating podcasts (reputable ones based on research and practical coaching experience) and they tell a similar story to what the last …

Am I the minority? To establish that, you'd need to survey a sizable part of the previously FF-using population and determine why they stopped using it. Going from "lost most marke…

I'm a decade-long user and am perfectly fine with modern Firefox (plus uBlock), both on the desktop and on Android. In fact, I don't want to go back to the before-times. Speak for …

Side note: replace old.reddit.com with teddit.net in any Reddit URL and you'll get a less noisy reading experience, especially on mobile.

And why should a future reader trust your word over theirs?