moritz

> The overall the amount of developer toil and waste created en masse by people who think they are making something "better", usually with no before/after data […], almost always vastly dwarfs all improvement that occurs as a result.

So, why is the Fedi not built on RSS/Websub/etc. then?

No, I am proposing you write

line-height: calc(2.5ex + 0.5rem);

instead. The effect is the same, but based on the x-height of the font used, which can be beneficial for the reasons outlined. Adjust the ex to taste, between 2 and 2.5 or so.

> line-height: calc(1em + 0.5rem);

Even cleaner imho, at least in theory, if you dont use 'em' but 'ex' for the relative sizing, the x-height of the element's first available font.

Good looking leading is often more influenced by the x-height of a typeface than by cap height (try setting Verdana and Times with the same line-height). So especially if your design has more than one typeface, using ex makes it more consistent.

Caveat: If the metrics are not set correctly in the font file, FF on Mac, and the Windows browsers will freak out. Should not be a problem with system fonts, but if you use web fonts, keep an eye on that.

I usually also set a unitless fallback, at least on the html element.

I really hope Apple sherlocks them this year and releases a dedicated “Passwords” app. They might, to push their new pw-less login and so on.

Can it sync via Wifi?

Cerstin Mahlow: “Research on writing tools started with the increased availability of computers in the 1970s. After a first phase addressing the needs of programmers and data scientists, research in the late 1980s started to focus on writing-specific needs. Several projects aimed at supporting writers and letting them concentrate on the creative aspects of writing by having the writing tool take care of the mundane aspects using NLP techniques. Due to technical limitations at that time the projects failed and research in this area stopped. However, today's computing power and NLP resources make the ideas from these projects technically feasible; in fact, we see projects explicitly continuing from where abandoned projects stopped, and we see new applications integrating NLP resources without making references to those old projects. To design intelligent writing assistants with the possibilities offered by today's technology, we should re-examine the goals and lessons learned from previous projects to define the important dimensions to be considered.”

No, what we should do is put some pressure on Eizo to make us a 5120 x 5120! (;

Thank you. So my guess is the 1.5 display scaling plays a role here— there is a penalty to that, since it's not mapping pixels 1:1.[1] So macOS has to do some kind of anti-aliasing?

I'm of course not the first to find out,[2] but it's probably not advisable to try to make raster fonts work as webfonts nowadays. There is no reliable way to disable anti-aliasing. Even if there were, one would be very limited in terms of type sizes, which becomes moot because of displays running with odd scaling… and so on.

[1]: https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos/tips/what-is-display-s...

[2]: https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/125

Thanks for the screenshot. I think there certainly is something to that – these typefaces were designed to render at exactly one specific size. I mean that's why there is a "Sans10" and a "Sans12" in the ST-80 GUI. I've drawn a few glyphs of the 12 already, it's quite interesting how these faces differ between weights and sizes…

I made a webfont test page where you can see Sans10 at the original size[1]

There are rendering differences, in Firefox the type colour[2] is slightly lighter than in Safari. I'll have to look if there is a way to disable font-smoothing across Browsers with CSS.

[1]: https://moritzfuerst.net/projects/smalltalk-type/webfont-tes...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_color

Author here, you two mind telling me which operating system / browser / screen res you used? These render crisp on all my devices with macOS/ iOS in Safari and Firefox. Could be Chrome does sth I have to disable.

This is the better version, since it delivers actual text instead of png's: https://text.orf.at

Austria: <https://teletext.orf.at/>

Or native Apps without 200 GB chrome browser bloat.

“Super fast”… it’s Electron

Pathetic.

> The dominant view of inflation holds that it is macroeconomic in origin and must always be tackled with macroeconomic tightening. In contrast, we argue that the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers’ inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability of firms with market power to hike prices.

yeah, that’s not why this is happening

> the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers’ inflation that derives from microeconomic origins, namely the ability of firms with market power to hike prices.

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/econ_workingpaper/343/

Not only that, in case of the App store it also made me spend way less on paid-upfront as well. Time and time again, software I paid for was replaced on my device with shareware that nags me for subscription later on. Once you experience that maximal user-hostile conduct a few times, it makes you wary of "buying" anything in that ecosystem except for maybe the occasional 1$ throwaway thing— Why should I spend 69$ on an app that will most probably pivot to a "sustainable" rentsomeware model once they have milked the market of people willing to pay upfront, and, again, take the software you paid for away from you and replace it with shareware on your device.

It‘s fascinating to me, the lenghts SaaS devs go to make themselves believe rentsomeware is sth people “want” or that is “beneficial” to customers.

no, but the tachoyns devs are a bit "opinionated" as to which directions the thing should go (and which ones it shouldn't) and seem to have moved on for the most part. one of the reasons why even though tachyons came before tailwind, the latter has a much wider adoption and more active development

https://micro.blog for example does exactly this, sort of RSS based Twitter (i.e the idea is that your feed contains mostly shorter posts, but that’s not a hard restriction) . Give it the RSS of your website (they can also host one for you), "follow" other people (=subscribe to their rss feed) and boom there is your "social media"

Just look at all the overhead of the article‘s website… When I first clicked the link the "website" crashed, so instead of the hot take, all I could read is that "addEventListener is not a function". That tells you all about the current state of affairs

(Yes I get that webdevs' personal sites are their playground)

Beautiful how I can't read the article on a slightly outdated browser (the state-of-the-art SPA crashes), because in the best of all times to build websites with the internet-of-javascript-bs, actually reading them is a nightmare lol.

“Economists estimate that the introduction of the fifth version of Apple’s iPhone delivered a GDP increase up to eight times higher than the projected effect of the TTIP/TAFTA.”

http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta

Public transport?! European Communist!