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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
At small sizes , like 8–13px, sans-serifs look better than serifs. And user interfaces and websites used to be that size. But for 16px and up, which is what websites of today use, serifs are perfectly fine even on 1× displays (though sure, they’ll look better still on higher-DPI displays, but so will sans-serifs). I should clarify that it depends on the font. Sans-serifs tend to have fairly even stroke width, but ser…
Are you sure that "websites of today" use 16px or larger universally? HN appears to use 9pt Verdana, which I believe is equivalent to 12px on my Windows system if my math is correct. Georgia is a terribly underrated font. I'm sure it's heavily hinted to look good at small sizes, but even at large sizes it has an elegance that is lacking in e.g. Times Roman.
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#153For other similar-ish related tools/writing platforms: * https://write.as/ * http://txti.es/ * http://telegra.ph/ * https://txt.fyi/ * https://verbatim.link/ * https://www.pastery.net/ * http://ix.io/ * https://commentpara.de/ * https://rwtxt.com/ * https://distbin.com/
I'm surprised nobody has attempted to put the content in the URL yet (to display on a static page with styling using JS [needs a tag filter...] to insert an URL parameter into some node). It would accommodate at least 2KB of text, local caching and fast hosting all in one.
Thinking through this, it seems like content-in-URL would work for a website with a single page or a small number of pages, but would limited by the fact that links from one content-in-URL page to another content-in-URL page require content from both pages to be encoded in the first page’s URL. If you have pages linking to pages linking to pages, this cascades into requiring content from all pages encoded in the home page URL.
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#154Since HN seems to be on a blog-kick lately, I'll repost the idea that I'm still waiting for someone to build: A blogverse of some kind that allows for algorithmic discoverability & aggregation (ala Medium) without the bullshit/terrible UX. The real value proposition of Medium is that a well-made aggregator benefits readers and writers alike. Readers find more authors they like, writers find more audience. There are a…
I am gonna work on this evening. Thanks.
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#155I sign up but no email was send.
The css should either leave the default colors alone or set both the background and font color.
The source of this page contains much more cruft in meta tags and than actual content. https://herman.bearblog.dev/markdown-test/
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#157I like the lighthouse numbers a lot:
https://twitter.com/asculthorpe/status/1265374476100947971
Performance: 100
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I want is a Yahoo-style directory for blogs. Blog owners can put their blog in exactly one category. Users can star the blogs they like, similar to GitHub, and identify the low quality click generators/marketing blogs. I personally find Medium to be a horrible way to find content. Maybe it works for new content, if that's what you're after.
The success of search engines prompted Yahoo to ditch its original product (the curation and categorization of the web) in favor of its competitors automated (and thereby game-able) crawl-index-search approaches. Now, decades later, there seems to be a shared yearning for the curated web, perhaps in response to the low signal:noise ratio of search. Isn't it funny, how the world works in cycles? Curated search (domain…
> Curated search (domains chosen by a set of humans with no financial conflicts of interests, with some grokkable categorization and full-text search) might be the nirvana we're searching for.
Moving away from ads towards human-centric curation is a primary design feature of the decentralized web.
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#159Small suggestion -- it seems like you're using the wrong units (or maybe abbreviations) for your displayed average page sizes. You're using lower-case b to indicate bits, but I suspect you mean upper-case B to indicate bytes? Also, the lower-case k is the correct prefix for 1,000, but lower case m is milli, or 1/000. You want M for mega, which is 1,000,000. Also if you really want to be precise you should consider wh…
Huh... I've always described 2^10 bytes as a "kilobyte" (kB) but I've always hated the ambiguity, even if the difference between 2^10 and 10^3 is usually not important. Thanks to this comment, I learned there is an formal set of units which are distinct from their SI counterparts[0].
1000^1 kB, 1024^1 kibibyte (kiB)
1000^2 MB, 1024^2 mebibyte (MiB)
1000^3 GB, 1024^3 gibibyte (GiB)
1000^4 TB, 1024^4 tebibyte (TiB)
1000^5 PB, 1024^5 pebibyte (PiB)
1000^6 EB, 1024^6 exbibyte (EiB)
1000^7 ZB, 1024^7 zebibyte (ZiB)
1000^8 YB, 1024^8 yobibyte (YiB)
Re: Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find that a curious attitude; I rather appreciate when I come across a site that uses a serif font. Sans-serifs are so terribly overused.
Sans serifs are overused because they look better on low resolution screens. If you haven't had to use a low resolution screen in a while then you are one of the privileged few.
This sounds like it ought to be a job for pixel-density media queries [1] in CSS. I doubt this happens often if ever though, because designers. Anyone seen this approach in the wild?
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/reso...