mattkevan

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by mattkevan 10mo ago
No, type designers want their art to be used. The type industry until recently has been a fairly friendly one as only designers really cared about it. I think it’s more likely that vulture capitalists have discovered a matket that they can
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
What a wild take. Might as well ask why anyone should pay for anything once it's been made. While it's possible to commission a custom font and many companies do eg. Apple, IBM, Airbnb, Bytedance, Vercel, Github, Mozilla etc. Some
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
Some really good options there. I did a deep dive a while back looking for small, independent, mostly European type foundries. There’s an incredible range of talent out there. Will never give Monotype and the like another penny.
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by mattkevan 10mo ago
Ah Monotype. Knew before reading the article it would be them. Their whole MO is buying up smaller type foundries, massively increasing the licensing fees and shaking down the previous customers. They send in auditors, demand to see traffic
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by mattkevan 11mo ago
Very different strategies. Sketch has been self-funding and sustainable from day 1. They have had 20m funding recently, but a fraction of Figma's 749m. Figma lost over 1bn in Q3 on revenues of 274m. Share price is down 70% from IPO 3 m
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by mattkevan 11mo ago
A Mac-based video manager that automatically transcribes, translates and summarises videos. I process information best through reading, so I built it to manage my growing collection of training course videos, webinars and meeting recordings
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by mattkevan 11mo ago
Thanks for the bug report! Will take a look at that.
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by mattkevan 11mo ago
Thanks, will take a look at why it’s not working. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t!
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by mattkevan 11mo ago
Thanks for your comments, I appreciate it! Yes a core part of what I’ve tried to do is separate content from presentation. This all started by trying to build an alt-protocol like Gemini or Gopher as a minimal writing and publishing experie
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by mattkevan 11mo ago
Hey thanks! Secrets are stored in the browser cache but not exported, so they’ll persist until the cache is cleared. If you open the site in a new browser you’ll need to re-enter the credentials. I found I wasn’t able to add FTP support wit
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Show HN: Sparktype – a CMS and SSG that runs entirely in the browser(app.sparktype.org)
48 points by mattkevan 11mo ago|11 comments
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by mattkevan 1y ago
I loved quartz composer. It made it really easy to build all sorts of motion graphics. I’d see it used a lot at gigs to create audio-driven visuals. There was even a pretty cool VJ app built on it. I’ve tried things like Touch Designer and
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by mattkevan 1y ago
Yeah you’re right, I was trying to put my finger on it, but the slight depth gives it the screen feeling, whereas eink is close to the surface. The Remarkable doesn’t feel like a computer whereas the daylight does.
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by mattkevan 1y ago
I’ve got a Daylight and it’s pretty similar to e-ink. Without the backlight the contrast is lower than a newer e-ink display, such as on a Remarkable, so you need good ambient lighting. It being actually backlit rather than front-lit is nic
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by mattkevan 1y ago
Bandcamp is your friend here. It’s got an almost infinite selection of the tiniest of micro-genres. Vaportrap? Yes. Blackgaze? Absolutely. Barber beats? Why not. My process is to find or invent a ludicrous sounding genre name, search for it
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by mattkevan 1y ago
I used to work for a chief exec like that. They’d see something on someone’s screen and demand changes, destroying months of carefully planned work with a single comment. In the end, we’d build in ‘breakpoints’ - things that we knew they’d
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by mattkevan 1y ago
Not familiar with dat browser, but I'll take a look. You can see an early beta of what I'm thinking about here: https://app.sparktype.org/#/sites
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by mattkevan 1y ago
I’ve been exploring this problem for a while, and have been building something which I think might help solve it. I’m currently building a browser-based static site generator that produces clean, simple code. But it does more than that. Alo
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by mattkevan 1y ago
I think it started out like that - the previous generation knew it was bullshit bud did whatever got them votes / viewers / attention or whatever, long term consequences be damned. Younger generations grew up in it, never exposed
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by mattkevan 1y ago
Safari has had built-in page translate for years now. It’ll detect different languages and show a translate option in the site tools menu. Works well.
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by mattkevan 1y ago
After years of working in public companies, where nothing mattered beyond the next quarterly results, I’m lucky to be working for a company that’s both a B Corp and an Employee Owned Trust. Instead of exiting to a buyout or IPO the founder
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by mattkevan 1y ago
I’m building a browser-based static site generator and CMS. I love SSGs as they’re simple and fast and the sites they make can be hosted anywhere with little maintenance. But, after helping a non-technical friend get up and running with one
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by mattkevan 1y ago
Most of the classic Disney films are based on public domain stories. If there were copyright, those works wouldn’t have been created.
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by mattkevan 1y ago
My Reddit feed is absolutely spammed with data annotation job ads, looking specifically for maths tutors and coders. Does not feel like roles with long-term prospects.
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by mattkevan 1y ago
I love the greenhouse, it’s one of my favourite places in London. Walking around it, exploring the different levels and observing the plants covering the concrete and ductwork makes me feel like I’m in some kind of retro-futuristic space ar
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by mattkevan 1y ago
Confirmation bias. We only hear about the heroics that worked. Plenty of heroes end up in unmarked graves. Teams move forward through trust, clear goals and good processes. Individuals may want to be heroic once those elements are in place
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by mattkevan 1y ago
Disagree. 9-5 working is fine, and probably more efficient long term than permanent crunches. Organisations fail when the ‘business’ people take over. People who let short term money-thinking make the decisions, instead good taste, vision o
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by mattkevan 1y ago
When designing, the standard practice is to use Lorem Ipsum - sort of mangled Latin that works like normal text but is very recognisable. This backfired once when I did a website for the Jesuits - the feedback they gave was that the design
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by mattkevan 1y ago
That's a really good point, thank you. Blender is another good example – incredible product with a great community. It's becoming the default choice for 3D now, unless you're working for a company that already uses something
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by mattkevan 1y ago
I did something similar a while back to the @fesshole Twitter/Bluesky account. Downloaded the entire archive and fine-tuned a model on it to create more unhinged confessions. Was feeling pretty pleased with myself until I realised that

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