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tribby
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About tribby
feel free to email me, my address can be found on tribby.com
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Comment #49138060
It’s possible you have a small sample.. I have not noticed “total domination” myself. The type foundries I know and sometimes work with are split. Many use RoboFont. FontLab is les…
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Comment #44479881
sub7 was a windows binary (client and server), but it’s possible there was an unofficial perl interface for it or something similar. the perl era definitely saw a lot of precursors…
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Comment #42982106
it was eye opening as a young person to learn how to change the path of a folder on a hotline server to ../ with a debugger
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Comment #42783145
it looks like it can’t be disabled for view-once media (or at least, that’s what the settings screen says)
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Comment #42270270
hetzner is really known for its german bandwidth prices, a change in the US is fairly insignificant IMO. for most applications you could just put a free CDN in front of the cheaper…
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Comment #41252382
> what other font editors moreover to Glyph (mac only) have good support for advanced contextual alternates ? any font editor that supports writing opentype feature code manually. …
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Comment #40059246
I would pronounce it tee-vix, because of the stock ticker symbol TVIX[0] which was a leveraged volatility ETN and very popular in its day. a little too popular - credit suisse deli…
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Comment #39173568
a variable font is a more generic term than a metafont. it’s a bit pedantic but while both have parameters, a metafont is usually parametrically generated based on its concept of a…
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Comment #38731887
the site needs a big novelty cursor to complete the look
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Comment #37621310
> has had any ability to tell me where, how often, or even whether a particular component is in use in the production UI I built a dashboard to display this for the design system I…
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Comment #37442978
all google fonts are OFL (the copyleft SIL open font license[0]) with the exception of some legacy fonts which are apache 2. they don’t publish fonts that aren’t OFL anymore 0. htt…
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Comment #37031896
beuckelaer predates him in terms of ordinary subject matter, but I don't know if the line is so straight anyway. a couple hundred years later courbet's work was more a rejection of…
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Comment #36652933
absolutely a response to perl. “TOOWTDI” has been an expression in the python community for a long time :)
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Comment #35646916
craigslist is the first one that comes to mind
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Comment #35623897
I agree. for some reason I don’t think they’d use this language reporting on amazon…
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Comment #35380211
congrats on the launch!
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Comment #35118180
> “I’m like, Giannis, you can’t be having accounts at 50 different banks. Let me tell you something, if JPMorgan goes under, your little dinky banks are going to go under too." but…
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Comment #35017299
a telehealth-only practice inherently cannot provide the same benefits, no?
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Comment #31957638
> I ignore the junk. This is the price you have to pay when you get something for free. clearly it isn’t, or the author wouldn’t have been able to move to a free alternative withou…
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