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dutzi··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Here as well…
dutzi··on Just let me select text
I love you
dutzi··on One Square Minesweeper
It BSODs!
dutzi··on Renderings Created with Only a Pencil
I think most people (safely) assume that saying such a thing won’t cause this response and some might say it because they find it a funny thing to say. I can imagine some people in my close circle of friends/family that might say it, but if they’ll find that it caused such a disastrous situation they will feel very bad…
dutzi··on Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
Fonts are awesome, I once made a font that embeds (guitar) chords as ligatures, so when you write the they “stick” to the words they belong to.

https://tunetype.com

dutzi··on Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
Assuming you live in Germany you could type “14:00 in LA”
dutzi··on Show HN: TuneType – a font that has (guitar) chords embedded as ligatures
What you suggested lastly is possible, most work will be coming up with a dumbed down editor for such a font. Per each ligature, the user should be able to provide a SVG(?) and control its y-offset and scale (currently I use the same values for all the ligatures).

DM me at Twitter (@verydutzi) if you want to talk about it, I’d be happy to!

dutzi··on Show HN: TuneType – a font that has (guitar) chords embedded as ligatures
Another thing about these chords ligatures is that they are “zero-width”. When you type /a/ it will get replaced with a the ligature for the A chords, which is a the shape of “A”, above the line (translateY: -150%), and report “advanceWidth: 0”, so the next character shares the same X position. Now, if you want to add m6 to it, I technically cannot support rendering it “to the right of the A”, since its width was set to 0. So I need to pack the font itself with both the A and the Am6 ligatures…

I think a more “advanced” use case like the one you described can be addressed by something like https://lilypond.org

dutzi··on Show HN: TuneType – a font that has (guitar) chords embedded as ligatures
Not sure why you got downvoted as well, that was very educating.

I never studied music theory, but I play guitar for >20 years, so I just picked some library I found that listed a few common chords, and put it there.

I never (knowingly) played a D6, so didn’t know to look for that one in particular :)

I’ll add the option extend the list, and see if I can find a better list of defaults.

The thing about those ligatures is that each one adds a bit to the font’s weight, they’re not referencing one another - it’s a lot of duplicated “paths” (and IIRC I can define up to 65,536 in total).

dutzi··on MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer
If memory serves me right, Mari uses it for her art.

https://www.instagram.com/madmaraca

dutzi··on Open-source canvas drawing web app, built using React
Nice! Check out Konva and React Konva as well :)
dutzi··on Ink: React for interactive command-line apps
~2 years ago I used it to create a dashboard (a fancy table) that renders some data it fetches sporadically from the web.

It was a lot of fun to make and stylize, but felt slower than it should. I guess it was the “layout stage” (IIRC lots of h/v-boxes).

It was 2 years ago and seems like it’s been well maintained, so maybe they sorted those things out.

dutzi··on When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets
There was also the Adobe Loves Apple campaign

https://www.fastcompany.com/1646594/adobe-launches-hearts-an...

dutzi··on Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git
Lovely website <3
dutzi··on Show HN: Gut – An easy-to-use CLI for Git
Lovely website!
dutzi··on Hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages
A popular story told to Israeli Defense Army soldiers who serve at checkpoints is of this gesture: https://i.ibb.co/ZBJSY1c/image.png

Apparently, in Italy it sort-of means "go f*ck yourself" (for Italian hnewers, this means "please wait" for the rest of the world).

The story tells about a soldier who once did that gesture to a car carrying some Italian politician, on their way to the West Bank.

Don't remember the rest of the story now, but it did not end well.