I was watching a video today that called stuff like this the "indie web" where the philosophy is anti-algorithm and tries to embrace all of the things that made the web a great place in the past. Things like RSS, custom blogs, forums, web rings etc... I started my own as well, it feels really nice.
The Monospace Web
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Re: The Monospace Web
#52Ooh, this is the thread to ask my question in. A few years ago I ran across a ... I think a video game walkthrough? maybe? which was written to be read in monospace font, and it was full justified perfectly all the way through (thousands of lines!) SOLELY through word choice. Anyone know what I'm talking about and have a link?
That's called bricktext[0], it used to be a thing you'd occasionally see on usenet and places like GameFAQs. [0] http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/B/bricktext.html (Also wow Google has completely erased this concept from its search results.)
oh my god that person wrote "The Art of Unix Programming" I binge read it last week and it was exceptional. What a world. These are the kind of people that I look up to and aspire to be like.
Re: The Monospace Web
#53Ooh, this is the thread to ask my question in. A few years ago I ran across a ... I think a video game walkthrough? maybe? which was written to be read in monospace font, and it was full justified perfectly all the way through (thousands of lines!) SOLELY through word choice. Anyone know what I'm talking about and have a link?
Cf. also http://tom7.org/bovex/ (a layout engine that tries to achieve a similar effect by rephrasing the input using an LLM).
Wow that was… such an amazing ride. Thank you for sharing!
Re: The Monospace Web
#54OpenBSD started setting the console font to "Spleen" several years ago.
It's a pity that there isn't a TrueType version.
Re: The Monospace Web
#55At least it's not green on black.
Yes, amber on black would be far superior.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
GameFAQ was enough! FOUND IT! Thank you! https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs...
this gets discussed, or at least mentioned, often on hn, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28651093 (this very faq) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773880 (jart's commit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605970 (tom7's gnujpl) and bonus: recently i've been enjoying http://arlyle.sdf.org/ (unfortunately, links do not work in preformatted text on hn)
"I could totally hear the first one in singing form"
Thanks to AI, now you can.[1]
[1] https://suno.com/song/22f52bca-7119-4aac-8f0a-5daf9afa509d
(Also an amusing waste of time. Here's "a religious folk song in the format of a Cisco configuration file": https://suno.com/song/536fe16f-079c-4cce-921c-c2518f6dedb6 )
Re: The Monospace Web
#57OpenBSD started setting the console font to "Spleen" several years ago. It's a pity that there isn't a TrueType version. https://github.com/fcambus/spleen
> It's a pity that there isn't a TrueType version.
Can you use the OTF files instead? Their readme says there are OTF files in the release tarballs.
Re: The Monospace Web
#58I was thinking about changing my personal website's font to a monospaced one.
Anybody know which ones are particularly good for long-form text readability?
Bonus points if it's on Google Fonts.
Re: The Monospace Web
#592024 and no light mode?
Re: The Monospace Web
#60I was thinking about changing my personal website's font to a monospaced one. Anybody know which ones are particularly good for long-form text readability? Bonus points if it's on Google Fonts.
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