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   Show HN: Calc – A fast and intuitive command-line calculator written in Go(github.com)

   94 points by alfredxing 12y ago|33 comments
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   by alfredxing 12y ago

   Surprisingly that domain name is still available :O
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   by alfredxing 12y ago

   I bought gpu.graphics soon after the new gTLD availability for around $35. Still looking for buyers but it was probably a bad idea.
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   by alfredxing 12y ago

   Thanks! I tried to make it as simple as possible.
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   Show HN: http.js, a tiny AJAX utility(github.com)

   15 points by alfredxing 12y ago|2 comments
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   by alfredxing 12y ago

   Here at UBC all accounts (students, faculty, staff) must have their passwords updated every year. They force you to do it with 3 "skips" available (for if you really don't have time).
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   Ello: an ad-free social network(ello.co)

   46 points by alfredxing 12y ago|52 comments
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   by alfredxing 12y ago

   The Verge has just published a story on this as well: http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/4715274/ipod-classic-discon...
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   Apple discontinues iPod Classic(apple.com)

   6 points by alfredxing 12y ago|1 comments
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    by alfredxing 12y ago

    For me the sixth is all Lato -- the blue block that starts with "Unity"
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    by alfredxing 12y ago

    They're supposed to link to a font-specific specimen page where you can see exactly how the font renders and take advantage of some content-editable headings and paragraphs.
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    by alfredxing 12y ago

    It's because GitHub Pages (where the Brick site itself is hosted right now) runs an outdated version of Jekyll that doesn't support Collections yet. You can track the issue here: https://github.com/alfredxing/
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    In a way, yes. All settings can be controlled through CSS, so tweak to your liking!
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    I'll put that in the GitHub usage wiki page.
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    The features available in the OpenType panel should also be available through CSS's font-feature-settings property: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-featur...
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    You can disable swashes with a line of CSS: `font-feature-settings: "swsh" off;` Of course you'll need to add vendor prefixes.
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    A reference for custom fonts via @font-face: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    The "low" seems to be a Firefox thing; the f and i are supposed to be like that; it's a ligature ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature )!
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    Yep. I'm still locked out with noprocrast so while I can add comments, I can't edit. 5 more minutes...
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    Thanks! Yes, IE <9 doesn't support WOFF (only EOT). For a compatibility table, see http://caniuse.com/woff
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    Is this on Firefox? Seems to be an issue. I'm pretty sure the fi is supposed to be joined; if you highlight it with your mouse, it highlights as one character (though on copy-and-paste it's two, as expected). OpenType fonts usuall
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    The fonts that are also in Google Fonts should have the same license; for the ones that are not, consult the license file in each font's directory, but all of them should be usable commercially.
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    I chose 10 of my favourite open source fonts; some are on Google Fonts, others (like Latin Modern) are not.
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    OSX seems to do a good job at rendering fonts. EB Garamond, at 300KB, is the largest font in the catalogue right now, since its character set is huge (the other fonts are around 80-100KB). And while Google does let you choose character sets
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    I want to give a big thank-you to the fine folks at Fastly ( http://www.fastly.com ) who generously agreed to host Brick on their great CDN network. They're big fans of open source!
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    Thanks! Unrelated note: I locked myself out of HN because I had noprocrast turned on...
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    The most noticable differences (apart from the rendering) are the fi ligature in the title ("overfilled") and the Q feature (where the tail is extended past the first letter ("Quisque").
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    For now, open up an issue on GitHub. I plan on extending the contributing page on the wiki with pull request instructions soon.
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    Thanks! Hmm, seems to be an issue. Renders fine in Chrome though, and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong in FontForge either. I'll look into it for sure.
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    by alfredxing 13y ago

    Sorry about that! It's probably a difference between the fonts served by Brick and those by Google. Just pushed the commit, should be fixed now.