Running the risk of being a dirty reposter and.. reposting. My little Spotify client is for macOS only, mostly only built for my own use, and a lot more minimal, visually. It's also native Swift though, so it's got that nice macOS feel. It's also pretty much 100% keyboard-driven (Vim keys, if that's something you like) and supports regex filters. It's just an open-source thing: https://github.com/toothbrush/Spotiqueue
I feel a bit bad plugging my own project (sorry not sorry i guess), but i wrote a macOS app to scratch my itch, because for years i've hated the Spotify interface (especially the queueing aspect).
Apologies, the original title is terrible. Matt Stoller writes very interesting pieces about markets and monopolies, and this one concerns Solarwinds specifically, which feels relevant given that's on the front page at the moment. The author gives a compelling narrative on why exactly security practices were so bad at Solarwinds, and how that related to runaway capitalism.
It's funny this should come up on HN today, because just this week out of nowhere i thought i'd try Mutt again (after having been a Mutt user since mid-2000s, but switching to mu4e for the last ±5 years).
What i used to do back in the day, and appeared to work fine when i tested this weekend, is so-called flowed mode. [1] I think it's a controversial feature, because it's a brittle hack, but anecdotally an email i sent this weekend as a test displayed fine on an iPhone.
And indeed, i'm totally with you on wanting to use/send text email but not look like a freak with weirdly broken 80-char lines in paragraphs.
> this site has a certain tenderness, thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for the kind words. It really means a lot to us.
> comments through Github is interesting in a brilliant way
Thank you! Honestly we're just cheap/lazy – we really wanted a super low-maintenance blogging platform, and static pages are amazing IMHO. This gave us "all" of both worlds, sort of.
Hey Chris, thanks for visiting. Author here. We actually have several projects we've tried to launch with varying degrees of traction. One of them (https://vistaserv.net) made the rounds here a while ago, actually. We plan to write posts about several of these projects, pick apart what worked and didn't. And, if we come up with resources or techniques that worked well for us, we'll be posting about those, too. Stay tuned :)
My partner and i were laughing about making a retro community website, free of adverts, trying to recapture the spirit of the old Geocities era web. It got a bit out of hand and we came up with https://www.vistaserv.net.
I apologise if folks have already seen it, since it actually (surprisingly) got a bunch of traction here on HN over the weekend, but that has been our quarantine project, for what it's worth!
Wow, thank you for putting 2 and 2 together! We have been bothered by these weird spacing artefacts, but we never figured out that they correlated to line breaks in our source code! That's insane. This gives us a lead to investigate.
And here i was thinking HTML was a bit like LaTeX – mostly whitespace-agnostic! Just shows you what spending too long in academia will do to you.
Oh wow, i've stumbled on your site before. It's a masterpiece, and was definitely an inspiration for the work we talk about in this blog post.
Super interesting, what you're saying about the OpenType Sanitizer – i'd wondered why it appears you can't use bitmapped fonts in browsers (although another commenter claims you can – i don't know either way).
I'll have a look at Bits'N'Picas, thanks for the heads up!
We were actually just talking about compiling something like FreeType to JavaScript, but then you'd find yourself re-implementing a browser with layout engine etc...
Yep, we deliberately didn't convert the full set of glyphs from each of the fonts we support, mostly just because it was quite laborious (not to mention CPU time-consuming) to generate our relatively small range of weights, sizes, and font families as-is, so missing ligatures are a known issue.
If it's really illegible, i wonder if there isn't some other rendering bug happening – we admittedly didn't do much testing other than Chrome/Safari/Firefox on latest macOS. And i've seen some pretty weird glitches with this kind of custom font, e.g., https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/13. If something is truly that broken feel free to hit us up at webmaster@ with a screenshot, we'd appreciate the bug reports!
That's fair enough, i think it's a matter of taste, really. For me, it evokes a warm sense of nostalgia for a simpler time. Not that it necessarily was, and definitely not that it was better – i was a kid back then, so that has definitely coloured my memory of it all.
I see this more as a "just because we can" art project, than anything else.
EDIT: it also occurs to me that i have tons of respect for the hours of effort that would've gone into making fonts back then be beautiful at such small DPI. I think it's a good example of constraints producing interesting/good/impressive art. But i should avoid waxing too philosophical!
We had noticed this early on indeed, but no idea what's going on. Thank you for reporting it — we didn't think of raising it against WebKit since we assumed they'd be Doing The Right Thing™.
Hello! Co-founder here – wow, front page, that's flattering!
We have indeed still got a bunch of visual glitches we couldn't iron out, including the one ~saagarjha has reported to WebKit! We had assumed it was our font being broken, but i'm keen to follow that one.
Otherwise getting hinting right on all browsers in high-DPI has basically been impossible. Maybe we should simply recommend everyone use a Windows 98 User Agent ;)
The last few weeks have been spent on a pretty obscure project, that's finally kinda sorta ready to show to the world.
We were making silly games in Visual Basic 6, because that struck us as a cool thing to do. However, it's hard to show them to your friends, when they all use macOS or Linux. Plus, we didn't want them to miss out on the nostalgic feeling of booting up Windows 98. So, after a lot of blood/sweat/tears and a physical copy of the MS Windows 95 Resource Kit book, we finally can ±roughly automatically install a Windows 98SE machine in QEMU, load it with our games and some settings, and then upload it to S3 to be "played" with copy.sh's v86 engine.
> Because cooking has turned into something social somehow ...
This comment boggles the mind. I would wager that probably for thousands of years, cooking has been a communal (if perhaps gendered, good riddance) affair, and only with the advent of the unemployed housewife of the 50s suddenly the kitchen is seen as this private affair.
But i guess i'm the wrong person to be commenting, because generally i'm no fan of all this extreme individualism :)