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dw0rm

70 karma · joined January 11, 2009

Front-end Engineer. http://unsoundscapes.com
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dw0rm··on Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
Currently using Raspberry Pi to expose the speakers through the AirPlay protocol, since my AirPort Express died.
dw0rm··on Sherlock: Remote Door Unlocking
Lockitron was rejected by Kickstarter, but they managed crowdfunding themselves.
dw0rm··on Show HN: Generate icon fonts from the command line
Unfortunately, I demand icon font being sharp at particular font size. Ideally, you could provide a set of eps/svg files with pixel grids and UPM (units per eM) generator setting for the desired font sizes (eg 16px, 20px, 24px). Is it possible?
dw0rm··on Show HN: Generate icon fonts from the command line
I'm using glyphs app mini to create sharp icon fonts.

The question is how to create eps/svg that would be pixel-hinted to specific font-size?

dw0rm··on Mashable's Responsive Redesign
Unfortunately, I don't have the URL as I have erased browser history since then. But I tried again and didn't see this issue.
dw0rm··on Mashable's Responsive Redesign
When I hear about responsive design I always try to resize the window and see how the things rearrange. This one feels really slow during the resize, almost freezes the browser.

And just a couple of clicks have caused redirect loop.

dw0rm··on Ask HN: Front-end or Python back-end jobs in Berlin
Great link. Thanks for the info.
dw0rm··on Instant Websites for Nonprofits | Bellstrike
Plus the search engines won't index their domain, and if in some case they had to move away from your service (I don't say they should, as the service seems to be rather cool) then they would loose their presence in search engines. This is a kind of tradeoff they should be aware of in the first step.

Ability to have custom domain name will solve this problem.

dw0rm··on Instant Websites for Nonprofits | Bellstrike
Answer "Sure" to "Can I use my own web address?" is a bit misleading. The correct answer would be "No you can't."
dw0rm··on IE9 deletes stuff
According to http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10...

    RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 specify that the client is not allowed
    to change the method on the redirected request.  However, most
    existing user agent implementations treat 302 as if it were a 303
    response, performing a GET on the Location field-value regardless
    of the original request method. The status codes 303 and 307 have
    been added for servers that wish to make unambiguously clear which
    kind of reaction is expected of the client.
dw0rm··on IE9 deletes stuff
I see your point. Although, I've been using 303 redirect for this purpose in my app after reading the specs, and haven't experienced any problems yet. So maybe you should consider switching to 303.
dw0rm··on IE9 deletes stuff
It seems that IE behavior is correct, and rails should return 303 redirect.
dw0rm··on Spin.js, a pure JS spinner
Are there any GIF loader generators that have all this options (speed, sizes, color) available? Could be good to use this as a preview, and then generate the final GIF.
dw0rm··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
From safari error console:

    car_data.js.gz:1 SyntaxError: Parse error
    ReferenceError: Can't find variable: car_data
dw0rm··on How I decided the price for my Japanese candy subscription service
The Soviet era is over. In my home town supermarkets are opened in the buildings of closed plants and filled with imports. Authentic Soviet artifacts are rarities.
dw0rm··on How I decided the price for my Japanese candy subscription service
Very interesting idea! I tried to think of the similar in Russia, but came to conclusion that there is nothing interesting to export subscription way, we are consuming only country.
dw0rm··on NYT Skimmer
From the layout selection, choose the one called "Stack".
dw0rm··on Head JS Loads JavaScript Files Like Images Without Blocking the Page
You can customize Modernizr to include only features you need.
dw0rm··on CSS Lint
I've been using paddings and left and right margins on inline elements and this tool tells me I can't.
dw0rm··on Why designers need to stop moaning about 99designs.com
True indeed. I've never even considered this option to do the design for my startup. And if I don't have enough money to pay the designer I'd better do the design myself rather waste my money in such a way.
dw0rm··on Ask HN: Custom Fonts & Anti-Aliasing
Thats why I think its better to use generic font on the body copy, and custom fonts for comparatively larger headings.
dw0rm··on Ask HN: Custom Fonts & Anti-Aliasing
Probably not the font-size, but the line-height. Narrow line heights sometimes cause text clipping.
dw0rm··on Ask HN: Custom Fonts & Anti-Aliasing
Also, If you use css 3d transform in Safari or Chrome under Mac OS, then absolute or relative positioned text will be badly antialiased. To fix that you need to explicitly set background color for these elements.
dw0rm··on Ask HN: Custom Fonts & Anti-Aliasing
For css -webkit-font-smoothing you may try between "antialiased" and "subpixel-antialiased", then there is css text-rendering: optimizeLegibility.

Also you should notice a bug in Safari for OS X that turns off antialiasing: http://seanmcb.com/typekit/webkit-antialiasing-test.html

Google has free webfonts that are already prepared for including in different browsers, you may consider them: http://www.google.com/webfonts, also there is http://www.kernest.com/.

FontSquirrel was already mentioned in this thread.

dw0rm··on Should You Sell Your Company?
"One of the most difficult decisions that a CEO ever makes is whether or not to sell her company." — why "her company", is it about female CEO?
dw0rm··on Hotmail launches accounts you can throw away
It is possible to use different email accounts from one gmail interface as well, which I do.
dw0rm··on Hipmunk’s Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition & Online Travel Experts
Yep, they are one Russian startup, but you can change the currency. Maybe they are not optimizing it for the USA flights, but searching for a flight from st Petersburg to Barcelona on the 24th of May with the flight back on the 31th of May for two persons returned me 168usd cheaper results.
dw0rm··on Hipmunk’s Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition & Online Travel Experts
http://www.anywayanyday.com/ got me cheaper prices for a particular flight.
dw0rm··on Poll: Ask HN: Which web application framework programming language do you use?
Python/webpy
dw0rm··on Ask HN: Go HTML5 only for a new product?
Money of IE users doesn't differ from the money of people using modern browsers.
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