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by dmerfield 9y ago
Not it's not. It's time to stop supporting ad-based businesses. Install an adblocker. Install an adblocker on your friends' and family's computers.
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by dmerfield 9y ago
Do you really think he should be in prison for intellectual property infringement ?
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by dmerfield 9y ago
I'm aware. My point was that the founders of the US Government chose to uphold the principle of free speech. The founders of companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter chose not to.
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by dmerfield 9y ago
Nor is a government. But the founders thought the principle of free-speech was a good one and so we have the 1st amendment.
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by dmerfield 10y ago
I use https://blot.im because it has no publishing interface and because I built the platform myself.
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by dmerfield 10y ago
Are the 1000+ bases part of a strategy to avoid nuclear proliferation? America agrees to provide security to its allies and in return its allies agree not to acquire nuclear weapons? How else are Brazil, South Korea, Indonesia etc... able t
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by dmerfield 11y ago
Yeah, Calepin was one of the services which inspired Blot. Sad to hear it's shutting down: https://twitter.com/calepinapp/status/631518650051231744
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by dmerfield 11y ago
There are a few features which I couldn't find in existing static platforms, including live drafts and instant publishing. Check out the video on the homepage for a demo. Blot is also flexible about the type of files it can publish - I
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by dmerfield 11y ago
Any word in all-caps is 'converted' to small-caps. This behaviour can be changed, or even disabled, by setting a flag in the options object before processing. I prefer to keep all-caps out of my body text.
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Typeset.js – A typographic pre-processor for HTML(blot.im)
143 points by dmerfield 11y ago|14 comments
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Trusting your eyes(designwithfontforge.com)
1 points by dmerfield 12y ago|0 comments
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Cold War and Insurgency Banknotes (2008)(psywar.org)
7 points by dmerfield 12y ago|0 comments
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by dmerfield 12y ago
Ah shoot, good catch. That page shouldn't be accessible over HTTP. Will push a fix to force a redirect to HTTPS.
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by dmerfield 12y ago
The pricing is currently for a single site. No support for multiple sites as of this moment. And not yet, I'll have to look into MultiMarkdown. Those features sound like a good idea.
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by dmerfield 12y ago
I'm currently using marked, which has worked wonderfully: https://github.com/chjj/marked And will look into pandoc, thank you!
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by dmerfield 12y ago
Awesome, thank you for giving it a try! These are all good features to have. 1) About page and custom pages are on the to do list. I need to work out a simple way to add this content from the user's perspective. 2 & 3) Great idea f
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by dmerfield 12y ago
Really appreciate the feedback. Will come up with some alternatives to this copy to test.
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by dmerfield 12y ago
These are all great ideas. Media embedding is already possible using markdown. I plan to add a feature to embed media that you put inside Blot's folder. Here's what I'm planning to add to Blot, roughly ordered by priority. 1.
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by dmerfield 12y ago
Thank you! Blot does support all of markdown. You can indeed use code blocks! The title is generated from the first H1 tag if there is one. Scaling the site is honestly something I'm going to have to learn more about. I'll set up
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by dmerfield 12y ago
Great questions! These are definitely things I should address on Blot's website. 1) Blog posts are converted into HTML, stored on my servers, which Blot then serves to people who visit your blog. Dropbox's bandwidth cap won't
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Show HN: Blot, a static blog powered by Dropbox(blot.im)
75 points by dmerfield 12y ago|36 comments
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by dmerfield 12y ago
if you're skilled enough in tech to write the in depth article, you're probably going to get a job in the field rather than writing about it. I'd guess this problem also applies to other industries.
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by dmerfield 12y ago
You're absolutely right, contrast options are something I've been meaning to add for a while. Please do!
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RandomColor – a color generator for JavaScript(llllll.li)
137 points by dmerfield 12y ago|28 comments
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by dmerfield 12y ago
As it seems many have done, I also made a text editor for first drafts called Typewriter. http://llllll.li/typewriter/ It's a little more restrictive since you can't move the caret. However, you can 'del
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Show HN: Typewriter, a text editor with no features(llllll.li)
7 points by dmerfield 12y ago|2 comments
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by dmerfield 13y ago
This is an advert. Marcio Cyrillo is the director of marketing at CI&T, who work for Google: http://www.ciandt.com/us-en/about-cit/partnerships
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by dmerfield 13y ago
I want to agree with you. 'Brave New World' did seem a better designed vision of a society. But there's no society yet that resembles it quite as closely as North Korea resembles Oceania. As Christopher Hitchens said, 1984 wa
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by dmerfield 13y ago
Do we know how prevalent the ASIC rigs are? I'd be really interested to see a rigorous study of Bitcoin's energy costs. Even so, it seems like the estimates on Blockchain.info are off by an order of magnitude. I've amended my
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by dmerfield 13y ago
Based on an electricity price of $125/mWh and power consumption of 650W/gigahash, Bitcoin costs $9m a day, or about $3.3b a year to run. The total value of Bitcoin is about $7.5b. Incidentally, the US mint and federal reserve comb

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