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tribby

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About tribby

best unknown for the font family barlow (https://fonts.google.com/analytics), ex-EFF

feel free to email me, my address can be found on tribby.com

Recent public activity

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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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