Hacker News: tribby

New comment by tribby in "Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor"

tribby — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:22:14 +0000

It’s possible you have a small sample.. I have not noticed “total domination” myself. The type foundries I know and sometimes work with are split. Many use RoboFont. FontLab is less common, but there are some shops that have invested in it deeply enough they’re still using older versions, even. And others develop their own tools, like Fontra, to better address challenges in CJK type design

RoboFont is deeply tied to the Type & Media program at KABK in the Hague. And it has a long history, building off what came before - it is both font software and pedagogy. My memory on this isn’t perfect but I believe Glyphs and RoboFont were both proposals around the time the UFO spec was being formalized

New comment by tribby in "Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin"

tribby — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:46:10 +0000

sub7 was a windows binary (client and server), but it’s possible there was an unofficial perl interface for it or something similar. the perl era definitely saw a lot of precursors to modern C2 dashboards

New comment by tribby in "Hotline for modern Apple systems"

tribby — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:03:53 +0000

it was eye opening as a young person to learn how to change the path of a folder on a hotline server to ../ with a debugger

New comment by tribby in "0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms"

tribby — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:53:11 +0000

it looks like it can’t be disabled for view-once media (or at least, that’s what the settings screen says)

New comment by tribby in "Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices"

tribby — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 02:26:28 +0000

hetzner is really known for its german bandwidth prices, a change in the US is fairly insignificant IMO. for most applications you could just put a free CDN in front of the cheaper german service to reach the US

New comment by tribby in "Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting"

tribby — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 01:34:15 +0000

> what other font editors moreover to Glyph (mac only) have good support for advanced contextual alternates ?

any font editor that supports writing opentype feature code manually. glyphs for mac won’t really help you here: while glyphs will do its best to autogenerate as much opentype for you as it can, it doesn’t do much (anything?) for calt features

New comment by tribby in "Tvix – A New Implementation of Nix"

tribby — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:57:26 +0000

I would pronounce it tee-vix, because of the stock ticker symbol TVIX[0] which was a leveraged volatility ETN and very popular in its day. a little too popular - credit suisse delisted it a couple months after the initial market crash brought on by the pandemic caused it to skyrocket

naming is hard :)

0. https://www.thestreet.com/etffocus/market-intelligence/rip-t...

New comment by tribby in "Variable Fonts"

tribby — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:06:03 +0000

a variable font is a more generic term than a metafont. it’s a bit pedantic but while both have parameters, a metafont is usually parametrically generated based on its concept of a pen, whereas a variable font usually has different parameters that have been defined by manual bezier drawings. I don’t remember if metafont itself can produce a variable font but people have used metapost to go to SVG and then UFO (font source) from there

New comment by tribby in "Labs.Google"

tribby — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:37:26 +0000

the site needs a big novelty cursor to complete the look

New comment by tribby in "The Design System Ecosystem"

tribby — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 07:24:08 +0000

> has had any ability to tell me where, how often, or even whether a particular component is in use in the production UI

I built a dashboard to display this for the design system I work on at my day job to give product designers better visibility into production, using a library called react-scanner[0] and some logic related to the way our different product repos are structured / places where the component names are different between figma and react. there are probably other libraries for this sort of thing in different ecosystems, and you can always build your own with a parser as well.

[0] https://github.com/moroshko/react-scanner

New comment by tribby in "Redesigned Google Fonts website"

tribby — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:12:42 +0000

all google fonts are OFL (the copyleft SIL open font license[0]) with the exception of some legacy fonts which are apache 2. they don’t publish fonts that aren’t OFL anymore

0. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...

New comment by tribby in "16th century European artists shifted their focus from power to peasants [video]"

tribby — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 08:37:03 +0000

beuckelaer predates him in terms of ordinary subject matter, but I don't know if the line is so straight anyway. a couple hundred years later courbet's work was more a rejection of neoclassicism than it was a continuation of any proto-realist's work

New comment by tribby in "Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed"

tribby — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 09:14:57 +0000

absolutely a response to perl. “TOOWTDI” has been an expression in the python community for a long time :)

New comment by tribby in "Why Perl?"

tribby — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:53:01 +0000

craigslist is the first one that comes to mind

New comment by tribby in "Meta to unveil fresh round of job cuts among highly skilled staff"

tribby — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 03:22:14 +0000

I agree. for some reason I don’t think they’d use this language reporting on amazon…

New comment by tribby in "Show HN: Mirrorful – A developer-first way to implement designs faster"

tribby — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 23:19:56 +0000

congrats on the launch!

New comment by tribby in "Giannis Antetokounmpo put $250k into 50 different banks (2022)"

tribby — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 09:09:40 +0000

> “I’m like, Giannis, you can’t be having accounts at 50 different banks. Let me tell you something, if JPMorgan goes under, your little dinky banks are going to go under too."

but isn't that the point - *when* they go under, each dinky bank's $250k is 100% FDIC insured?

New comment by tribby in "Amazon Buys One Medical"

tribby — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 01:44:56 +0000

a telehealth-only practice inherently cannot provide the same benefits, no?

New comment by tribby in "Goodbye, Feedly"

tribby — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 09:58:37 +0000

> I ignore the junk. This is the price you have to pay when you get something for free.

clearly it isn’t, or the author wouldn’t have been able to move to a free alternative without any junk to ignore.

New comment by tribby in "Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)"

tribby — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:16:54 +0000

another example of this kind of intentionality from nintendo is the curve on top of SNES, which is there to discourage setting drinks on top of it, unlike the NES before it