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mellonaut commented on Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes   optician-sans.com/... · Posted by u/exvi
mellonaut · a month ago
For those that now find themselves inspired to type the Snellen E, the internet provides an OFL typeface that scratches your itch here¹ (this unclearly licensed modification² even comes with some cute but barely readable lowercase versions of the letters)

1] https://radagast.ca/snellen/snellen.html 2] https://mk.bcgsc.ca/snellen-optotype-font/

mellonaut commented on Git's initial commit   github.com/git/git/commit... · Posted by u/mellonaut
mellonaut · 5 months ago
Twenty years since Linus Torvalds committed "Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell"!
mellonaut commented on Comic Mono   dtinth.github.io/comic-mo... · Posted by u/rootforce
mellonaut · a year ago
There is a fork of this[1] that includes programming ligatures, which might make this a more viable FOSS alternative to Comic-Code mentioned elsewhere.

[1] https://github.com/wayou/comic-mono-font/

mellonaut commented on Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002)   dangermouse.net/esoteric/... · Posted by u/andsoitis
mellonaut · a year ago
The last program on the examples page⁰ truly is amazing:

A guy (called Piet!) saw an artwork that reminded him of Piet (the lang) and tried executing it¹.

> It ran! [...] This is probably the first time in history that a graphic artist has painted a functionally workable computer program by accident.

[0]: https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html [1]: https://gitlab.fabcity.hamburg/hofalab/piet-get-together

mellonaut commented on Ask HN: Can you view tweets while logged out?    · Posted by u/mellonaut
anthk · 2 years ago
https://esmailelbob.xyz

Here you have different front-ends for propietary services.

Replace "twitter.com" with "nitter.esmailelbob.xyz" for every URL.

For convenience, you can try Libredirect for Firefox, and IceRaven from FDroid as a Firefox alternative for Android.

mellonaut · 2 years ago
Thanks! That's a nice resource, some of those I did not yet know about

u/mellonaut

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