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by efortis 5d ago
I’m working on projects for rendering code more legibly without editing it. One project is a proportional coding font, Camelana, which has left-padded uppercase letters when they are part of a camel case identifier. Also, it has custom liga
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by efortis 7d ago
Recently, I was screen-interviewed for coding speed with a fairly easy project. The company used a 3rd party platform which gave me 90m to complete 4 levels, each one building upon the other. I think that was a nice test, but the platform i
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by efortis 7d ago
One tell is: if you can code that hero there's no excuse for the silly bugs. For example, the hero is fairly impressive in mobile but it's broken in desktop. And then you scroll down to the next section and there's overflowin
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by efortis 9d ago
Yes, but it can be regardless of being a cache miss. If you are curious about the use case: https://github.com/ericfortis/aot-fetch-demo/blob/main/optio...
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by efortis 9d ago
Is there a way to stream the ESI in a chunk? I'm asking for different use case.
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by efortis 19d ago
> In contrast, bug reports to a typical end-user application go into a black hole from the moment they’re submitted. True, but not always, I've heard PMs saying: "this was a user-submitted bug", meaning you better fix this
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by efortis 21d ago
Two tips I learned from Sorin's yt channel: - Bend the tips - Don't buy an expensive iron, use a cheap one and assist it with a hot air gun Sorin is incredibly skilled. Here he is fixing a ribbon cable: https://youtu.be
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by efortis 24d ago
> fetch, XMLHttpRequest : Nothing — these are the ones everybody checks. That's one of the things I don't like about security scanners, they just check for fetch and friends, and without context, they downgrade your security sc
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by efortis 28d ago
FWIW, YouTube, instead of SSR, simply includes the critical API data in the HTML document. Here’s a PoC of that technique, see option 2. https://github.com/ericfortis/aot-fetch-demo
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by efortis 2mo ago
Is recording for creating stubs possible with that local setup?
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by efortis 2mo ago
haven’t done it, but I’d try a rain sensor. and if the child is into music, a guitar tone knob.
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by efortis 2mo ago
An easy improvement could be offsetting the cuts a bit so the result doesn't feel choppy. See J Cut and L Cut. A more complex improvement could be analyzing the movement and/or focal point so cuts flow better. For example, if in C
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by efortis 2mo ago
Currently, on ways to render code more legibly: - Camelana. A proportional coding font with custom ligatures for `return` and `throw` keywords - Tabular Eye. IDE plugin for tabularizing mono and non-monospace fonts without adding whitespace
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by efortis 2mo ago
CSS Modules are a better solution. They compile classnames into unique identifiers, so there's no need for BEM or SMACSS conventions: https://x.com/efortis/status/1888304658080256099
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by efortis 2mo ago
For the backend of my personal webapps I’m using Nginx with its WebDAV module. WebDAV is a protocol for managing files. So I basically have plain json files I read and overwrite. GET /mydata.json PUT /mydata.json For auth
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by efortis 2mo ago
ironical slop
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by efortis 2mo ago
Monospace for coding is suboptimal, here's a significantly more legible proportional font designed for coding https://github.com/ericfortis/camelana
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by efortis 2mo ago
is it for coastalvectors.com ? if so, I would say start by adding this meta tag, which will prevent the mobile downscaling <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> also, check ou
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by efortis 2mo ago
No worries, the motivation was that one day I was very tired and I noticed I had to make an extra effort to read long camel case names. The last screenshot in the readme has the snippet I was reading that day. So I added the left padding to
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My coding font and how I made it(github.com)
4 points by efortis 2mo ago|3 comments
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by efortis 3mo ago
there is a video of sketchpad here: https://youtu.be/fC4nW2o-Rwk
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by efortis 3mo ago
Location: Puerto Rico Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: React, Three, JS, TS, CSS, HTML Résumé/CV: https://ericfortis.com Email: efortis@gmail.com
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by efortis 3mo ago
My workaround was a editing a font with a much longer space char and with a 1/3 of a space of left padding on uppercase letters. https://github.com/ericfortis/verdanacamel The problem is that it looses tabular ali
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by efortis 3mo ago
it is hard and a lot to learn, but you can learn it a little bit at a time.
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by efortis 4mo ago
I’ve gotten a few emails complimenting the format of this post below. It’s got fragment-links that scroll and highlight the corresponding part in the code snippet. https://ericfortis.com/blog/freebsd-jails-network-setup
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by efortis 4mo ago
this release fixes a vulnerability reported 10 years ago https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/319816
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by efortis 4mo ago
This is going to be one my next projects for experimenting with the Web Serial API. I got an old Ioline plotter that refuses to die. Any advise or tips for where to start with the SVG to Gcode conversion?
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by efortis 4mo ago
Tabular Eye. Aligns code without modifying it. https://github.com/ericfortis/tabular-eye
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by efortis 4mo ago
The `security` man page on FreeBSD is a good example. Technical, but with guidance. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=security
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by efortis 4mo ago
yes, I stopped reading it because of that, and because it felt AI generated.

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