dgam

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Comment · 2 years ago

It's intentionally public. The news page is generated from todo.txt and my git commit messages:

https://blot.im/news

Comment · 2 years ago

Is it possible that you are in India and affected by recurring billing regulations? Email us and we'll get you up and running:

https://blot.im/contact

Comment · 2 years ago

Fair point – I have just added:

https://blot.im/pricing

Comment · 2 years ago

I announced Blot on Hacker News almost 10 years ago. Thank you all for helping to get it started. It was a nice surprise to see it posted again here today.

The goal of Blot is to bring the benefits of the static site generator to people who haven't heard of static site generators

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks for contributing – Rakhim created the 'questions' forum:

https://blot.im/questions

Comment · 6 years ago

It’s close to being conveniently self-hostable:

https://github.com/davidmerfield/Blot

Comment · 6 years ago

The timeout for the requests issued by the uptime monitor was set a little too low – the uptime monitor mistakenly believed the service was not responding (it was, but slowly)

Comment · 6 years ago

I'm responsible for hosting the website (I'm not the author of the post). Just wanted to say sorry for the outage. Issue was triggered by an aggressive uptime monitor which was freaking out at some slower-than-usual response times mid-HN-hug. Will tweak the uptime monitor

Comment · 7 years ago

Not sure if you’re hinting at this but President Clinton was actually caught renting out a room in the White House:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Bedroom_for_contribu...

The Healing Power of Gardens nytimes.com

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Comment · 7 years ago

The NHS front-end library is a particularly thoughtful set of interface components:

-https://nhsuk.github.io/nhsuk-frontend/

-https://github.com/nhsuk/nhsuk-frontend

I’ve cherrypicked a few here and there for a number of projects and they’ve worked well.

Comment · 7 years ago

I'm sceptical but more than happy to be wrong. Fonts are surprisingly complicated software and my suspicion is that the market of people who casually want to make them is small.

If someone interested in learning how to make fonts asked me for advice, I'd recommend he invest his time in FOSS software rather than proprietary tools which can (and do) fold and disappear. I've worked through FontForge's Beginners' guide and I'd recommend it to people with even a minor interest in type. You'll learn a lot beyond how to use the software itself:

http://designwithfontforge.com/en-US/index.html

Comment · 7 years ago

Note that there is a powerful and stable font editor called FontForge, widely used by professional type designers, which happens to be GPL-licensed:

https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/

Comment · 8 years ago

No it doesn’t. Free speech means allowing nazis to express themselves so you and others can understand nazism.

If you’re genuinely interested in understanding the principle of free speech, I recommend this as an introduction:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/