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Font-Family Recommendations

https://chrismorgan.info/font-family
32•birdculture•2d ago

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Terretta•22h ago
These days you can have an LLM code you up python to custom match visual metrics from your preferred web fonts to the likely user fonts across your statistical user base.
_verandaguy•38m ago
But why?
sometimez•1h ago
So basically just use monospace, serif, or sans-serif because you can't 100% be sure it'll render correctly?
xigoi•45m ago
Fuck that. I don’t want my website to look ugly because 99.9% of users don’t bother to change the defaults.
kibwen•14m ago
This is not at all what the article recommends. I recommend actually reading it.
xigoi•1m ago
> 3. Strongly consider using only a generic family

Seems clear enough.

porphyra•1h ago
> If not inlined, subresources can fail to load for all kinds of network reasons.

Also, it's commonly recommended to load fonts asynchronously/deferred without blocking the main page render. But I HATE it when the page jumps around as it cycles through different fonts before the real one loads. I'd rather get dinged on PageSpeed insights with "Requests are blocking the page's initial render, which may delay LCP. Deferring or inlining can move these network requests out of the critical path." rather than have everything popping about for the first second. Is it just me?

chrisweekly•1h ago
Def not just you!
cryzinger•32m ago
This drove me crazy on one of my (very lightweight) static sites... even on incredibly fast connections you'd always see that FOUT. I managed to solve it with font-display: fallback.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

I also had to make sure I was preloading my fonts properly... not sure if this is the same guide I followed, but it's close. The only difference is that I swapped that "&display=swap" to "&display=fallback":

https://dev.to/pilcrowonpaper/preloading-google-fonts-37h1

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/
430•stared•4h ago•398 comments

.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centere...
80•HumanCCF•1h ago•69 comments

Rocketlab acquires Iridium

https://investors.rocketlabcorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/rocket-lab-acquire-iridium...
315•everfrustrated•7h ago•186 comments

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1
103•danboarder•4h ago•24 comments

A native graphical shell for SSH

https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html
188•mrcslws•5h ago•81 comments

WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/
154•energeticbark•6h ago•21 comments

Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/hiking-with-wallace/
76•chantepierre•3d ago•8 comments

Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-06-29-micro-agent-frontier-models
30•matt_d•3h ago•9 comments

JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management

https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver
29•neitsab•2h ago•6 comments

US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision
327•cdrnsf•5h ago•150 comments

What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?

https://fergusfinn.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-run-a-gpu-kernel/
180•mezark•8h ago•16 comments

.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood

https://discourse.ifin.network/t/garden-tlds-change-to-a-bad-neighborhood/627
26•speckx•2h ago•19 comments

Working With AI: A concrete example

https://htmx.org/essays/working-with-ai/
42•comma_at•6h ago•9 comments

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage

https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-want-rightsholders-held-accountable-for-overblocking-damage/
284•Brajeshwar•5h ago•71 comments

Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding

https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html
39•kordlessagain•1d ago•6 comments

Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22283
56•Jimmc414•1d ago•2 comments

The Permission Slip

https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/28/the-permission-slip/
8•B1FF_PSUVM•2d ago•6 comments

Dark Sky Lighting

https://www.savingourstars.org/darkskylighting#whatisdarkskylighting
98•alexandrehtrb•4d ago•10 comments

Font-Family Recommendations

https://chrismorgan.info/font-family
32•birdculture•2d ago•9 comments

You Don't Know Jack About Formal Verification

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3819084
75•eatonphil•7h ago•26 comments

Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU

https://www.cpushack.com/2026/06/03/sandia-national-labs-sa3000-8085-cpu/
137•rbanffy•11h ago•38 comments

One million passports leaked online

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-in...
46•jruohonen•1d ago•20 comments

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/venice-bridge-fights/
48•pepys•3d ago•28 comments

30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/
87•xrd•23h ago•18 comments

Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2021)

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-exposure-skin-cancer-science/
41•markgavalda•16h ago•28 comments

The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming

https://thomaswc.com/blog/the_return_of_aop.html
69•thomaswc•3d ago•50 comments

Rebuilding the Computer Room

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/computer-room/
81•ingve•10h ago•41 comments

ACL 1.0: A source-available commercial license for the AI era

https://www.auditablelicense.org/
12•ilreb•1d ago•7 comments

Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing

https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/06/29/samsung-sk-hynix-micron-sued-in-us-over-memory-pr...
291•donohoe•9h ago•147 comments

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

https://twitter.com/i/status/2071277885646868536
290•notRobot•8h ago•130 comments