I've been using it for years, just want to say thank you, given the occasion.

Your rendering issue sounds like the one described here: https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2021/12/31/more-consistent-f...

As I understand it https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric provides an abstraction at least over the network divide.

> I base that on the fact that people seemed to spend quite a bit of time trying to find the phrase "the confetti has left the cannon" that GPT-4 phrased. It seems Google search has no records of it before then?

Could it be that the expression in some form has been used in languages other than English?

Good point! I hadn't thought of that.

If that is the case, it would downgrade the achievement from "super impressive" to just "impressive".

I spent some time trying to find it in other languages, but couldn't. Doesn't prove much of course, hopefully native speakers can weigh in on this.

I did find this though:

'TIL that a young stripper named Shelly Bauman lost her leg in a freak confetti cannon accident. She sued and used the money from the settlement to open Seattle's first gay bar, which she named "Shelly's Leg."'

It looks like a fork of Luxi Mono with slashed zero, which is available in ttf. And there is a more modern version of it with better character coverage -- Go Mono.

There is a Reading List plugin for Calibre

Also worth mentioning:

  Computer Modern (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  DejaVu (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  Fira (sans-serif/monospace)
  Inria (sans-serif/serif)
  Libertinus (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  Luxi (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  Merriweather (sans-serif/serif)
  Noto (sans-serif/serif/monospace)
  Overpass (sans-serif/monospace)
  Space (sans-serif/monospace)
  Ubuntu (sans-serif/monospace)

`r` is a little weird with its wide flat top, otherwise it's a great font. Would love to see Greek and Cyrillic support too.

Here's mine (fx55): http://i.cubeupload.com/AvH2Cc.png profile1: 6 windows, ~900 tabs; profile2: 2 windows, ~300 tabs. cold start takes about 2 minutes (on nvme ssd), next are slightly better. Startup time improvements were supposed to be in 55, right?

See also: http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html

HN really need to add Matthew Butterick's sites to spamlist.

Why so? I just skimmed read the linked page (after pasting the URL manually...) and it doesn't seem any worse than other articles posted here.

Because if you follow the link you get http://practicaltypography.com/graylist.html. That page has about the same amount of content as a typical spam page.

He's just blocking high traffic referrers. Which I agree is odd. It's not like his site is media heavy.

He attempts to monetize without resorting to ad networks. A laudable goal, even if the methodology is idiosyncratic.