The mess of web font services - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
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Using local fonts with Webpack / Webpacker
When we want to use our own (or bought) fonts in an application with Webpack(er), we have two options. We can
- put the fonts directly into your Webpack's assets folder or
- write an npm package with an own sass file that can be imported from the...
CSS Fontstack: An overview of web/web safe font support
Web safe fonts are fonts that are pre-installed by many operating systems. While not all systems have the same fonts installed, you can use a web safe font stack to choose several fonts that look similar, and are installed on the various systems...
Localized external services - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
ShamRack mounts a Rack app locally, just for your tests. It goes one further: it “mounts” it using Net::HTTP such that requests to the Rack app never hit any network.
Sailing down the Hudson with RVM - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
We recently decided our CI server needed an overhaul. I really enjoyed Integrity as a build server, but after trying out Hudson it’s hard to say I want to go back. Hudson has several huge advantages.
Minify Font Awesome fonts with webpack
Font Awesome 5 is a comprehensive solution for vector icons on your website.
Originally, Font Awesome came as an icon font (plus stylesheets), but recently it can also be used as a pure JavaScript solution (which will...
Cheats to optimize your web font rendering
Type looking a little flabby? Overweight? Want to give it a kick in the pants? Take a look at some of these tricks to really give your web type a workout.
Improve web font rendering in Windows by autohinting fonts
Web fonts are awesome. After being restricted to Arial for two decades there is finally a cross-browser way to embed fonts into web pages.
Unfortunately while web fonts look awesome on Linux and MacOS, they [look h...
The LaTeX Font Catalogue
Gallery of fonts you can use without much hassle in LaTeX. The license of the fonts vary, but are all free. Note that the fonts not necessarily are free to distribute, and some fonts are available for non-commercial use only.
Hoptoad and Javascript, Sitting in a Tree, S-E-N-D-I-N-G - GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS
We didn’t want to leave front-end developers in the dark when their Javascript throws errors, so we’ve added a Hoptoad notifier for Javascript!