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by blakewatson 4y ago
That’s a good point. Something close to a "properly fitted proportional version of iA Quattro" might be Nitti Grotesk. https://www.boldmonday.com/typeface/nitti-grotesk/
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by blakewatson 4y ago
Yeah this is my anecdotal take. Haven’t looked at studies on this, if they exist, but in my experience, reading monospaced fonts for several paragraphs is tiring.
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by blakewatson 4y ago
> The article doesn’t use the font it is extolling the virtues of, except for illustration. I found that interesting. I do use them for writing and coding.
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Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing(blakewatson.com)
394 points by blakewatson 4y ago|171 comments
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by blakewatson 4y ago
Now that I've used this, I want it everywhere there is rich text.
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by blakewatson 4y ago
My friends and I used to play TripleA by emailing the game file back and forth. Good times. If anyone is interested, there’s a great game similar to A&A but with simpler rules and tons of maps and scenarios. It’s called Lux Alliance by
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by blakewatson 4y ago
As someone who has to use scrollbars for accessibility reasons, I too hate the war on scrollbars. It is such a useful, battle-tested UI component.
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by blakewatson 4y ago
If you’ve ever experienced the feeling of "this theme is almost perfect except for one thing," then VS Code has a decent way to address it (not sure about other editors/IDEs). In your user settings, you can override a good nu
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by blakewatson 4y ago
100% this. And I'll add that somehow the new Electron app feels faster and more responsive than the native one. Huge props to the team for that.
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by blakewatson 4y ago
Excuse me while I try to unread this.
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by blakewatson 4y ago
Super basic, but I recently made my own: https://github.com/blakewatson/bookmarks
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by blakewatson 4y ago
The name Theranos sounds like an evil company in a dystopian fiction.
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by blakewatson 4y ago
I enjoy listening to synth-y, mostly instrumental, music while working. I ended up making this site after I got tired of searching for mixes on YouTube: https://synthwave.live/ Edit: I forgot to mention, the design of this
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Bear Blog(bearblog.dev)
3 points by blakewatson 4y ago|0 comments
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by blakewatson 4y ago
I’ve been a Pinboard customer since 2010 and I subscribed to the archival service several years. But archival seems to have stopped on my account. I think I emailed once but never received a reply (which I’ve heard is common). I love the ph
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by blakewatson 4y ago
There is a party game based on this principle. Mad Gab.
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by blakewatson 4y ago
Every developer must also write their own CMS at some point. :)
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Show HN: My personal DIY bookmarks app to replace Pinboard(github.com)
11 points by blakewatson 4y ago|2 comments
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by blakewatson 4y ago
Oh man I thought Private Internet Access was still one of the independent VPNs. I feel duped. :/
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by blakewatson 4y ago
Ooh, this looks really cool. I feel like task management is something I haven't figured out how to do well yet. I might give this a tray.
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by blakewatson 5y ago
Yeah this sort of thing was my experience as well. Despite being Electron, VS Code is faster and smoother for the main project I work on. Which sucks because I would love to use Nova more (I’ve owned it for over a year now).
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by blakewatson 5y ago
> you'll never get anywhere if you let small obstacles in life deter you from your goals It is true that I decided not to read the article, but I don't think that is indicative of a larger life pattern. In fact, I have a lot of
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by blakewatson 5y ago
Clicks link. Starts to read article. Two seconds in a newsletter modal takes over. :(
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Thinking in Rich Text(blakewatson.com)
2 points by blakewatson 5y ago|0 comments
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by blakewatson 5y ago
https://synthwave.live/ - a collection of synthwave mixes on YouTube with some specialized functionality on top of embedded videos that makes listening to music compilations more convenient. I made this mainly for myself be
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by blakewatson 5y ago
> Everything is full of interesting sidebars, but sidebars like caveats just make for boring reading for someone who's presumably there for the title topic. I've found that you can have the best of both worlds here and use foot
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The powerful accessibility of the customizable web(blakewatson.com)
1 points by blakewatson 5y ago|0 comments
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by blakewatson 5y ago
Just wanted to mention that you could try falling back to StartPage (!sp) first as it uses results from Google.
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Synthwave.live, a Nostalgic Musical Odyssey(blakewatson.com)
2 points by blakewatson 5y ago|0 comments
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by blakewatson 5y ago
I’m gonna miss dislike jokes (eg, "13 people just want to watch the world burn.")

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