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Wow! I was going to post this but here it is already! I wrote (with a lot of help) the article there. I also jotted down some notes on the process of writing it with O'Reilly in case anybody's interested in that side of things: http://planspace.org/20160619-writing_with_oreilly/

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Just a CSS critique: could you add "monospace" to the end of your list of monospaced fonts?

I have perfectly good monospaced fonts on this computer, but none of them are Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, or Lucida Console, so I end up with a default proportional serif font.

This might seem like an innocent change but it really is another HTML/CSS browser hell hole. If I remember correctly it was Jeff Atwood or jzy who taught me this lesson at a time when Stackoverflow was just out of Beta:

If the keyword monospace is somewhere in your font stack some browsers use 13px as default font size instead of the usual 16px. The workaround used to be to use both, serif and monospace, in your font stack. This used to work some time ago, I don't know if it still does with contemporary browsers.

O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it seem better now?

Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass along to the O'Reilly team and see if there's anything they can do.

O'Reilly tells me that this issue has been resolved as of last Friday. Does it look better for you now?

Great article! You did miss a GoT plug though "An Object has no name". Tisk! But seriously though thanks for the background post to go with. Cheers.

Thanks! May objects not bring you any unwanted gifts! :)

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2016/05/an-object-has-no...

It was nice to hear a little behind the scenes. I'd be curious to hear any analytics about unique visitors, etc so far from the O'Reilly post if you can share.

I'm curious too! I don't know yet whether they'll pass that info to me, and then I don't know whether I would be able to pass on any further. I imagine at least some of the analytics are considered proprietary/competitive info. But we can see some public things like votes here, number of tweets, etc.

Good post man. Hope DC is treating you well these days.

Thank you! Things are going great in DC - I happen to be in NYC for ICML this week though, where things are also going pretty great! :)

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