Input: Fonts for Code

This card is mainly an explanation how variable fonts work in CSS, not necessarily a recommendation to actually use them.

What is a variable font?

Designing and rendering fonts are two highly complex topics. For an arbitrary text to appear pro...

When giving a presentation where you do some coding, the font size you usually use is probably a bit too small and makes code hard to read for users on smaller screens or low-bandwidth connections when the image quality is lower.

Here are two sol...

Very nice font for programming.

Font Awesome 4 has renamed all icons. What the fuck.

Check the attached link for an icon list for the old Font Awesome 3.2.1.

Note

The following icons are listed on the linked page but may not exis...

Merge requests are often rejected for similar reasons.

To avoid this, before you send a merge request, please confirm that your code ...

• [has been reviewed by yourself beforehand](https://makandracards.com/makandra/491161-how-to-make-your-code...

Rails' ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone objects have both a timezone code and offset, e.g. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:00:00 CET +01:00. Ruby's stdlib TZInfo also has time zones, but with different identifiers.
Unfortunately, not all timezone codes can b...

Icon fonts like Font Awesome are infinitely scalable, look great on high-DPI displays and will give your app a modern look.

However, icon fonts can be very a...

Formerly 301 (Moved Permanently) and 302 (Found) were used for redirecting. Browsers did implement them in different ways, so since HTTP 1.1 there are some new status codes which allow for finer distinctions.

**The interesting part is how non-GET...

When your public-facing application has a longer downtime for server maintenance or long migrations, it's nice to setup a maintenance page to inform your users.

When delivering the maintenance page, be *...