[HN Gopher] I created a front page Show HN project CodingFont.co...
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I created a front page Show HN project CodingFont.com with low code
Author : wentin
Score : 43 points
Date : 2021-10-28 17:31 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (retool.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (retool.com)
| drcongo wrote:
| Didn't actually work for most of the people in the Show HN
| though.
| codetrotter wrote:
| Worked fine for me when I tried it yesterday. Revisiting the
| thread it looks like they were making changes to it based on
| feedback and that unknowingly to them they broke it before
| going to bed.
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| Personally I appreciate the fact that they made an effort to
| implement some of the suggested changes. And I think that in
| such situations, when making changes and even maybe being tired
| when doing it, it can easily happen that something breaks,
| regardless of whether you are developing with code or low-code
| or no-code.
|
| For example, when I tried the tool/game, I did not yet see a
| way of hiding the font names and I was thinking about exactly
| the fact that I may be biased towards preferring the JetBrains
| font because I use it in CLion where I write most of my code,
| and that as a result I may be ranking it higher than I would if
| the name of it was not displayed to me.
| drcongo wrote:
| Thanks, hadn't checked it again since it was broken that
| first time. I'll give it another go.
| wentin wrote:
| Thanks for your kind words! Yeah, yesterday was such a roller
| coaster! The comment section is like a gold mine of good
| features to implement. We took the easy one to implement
| first, and will continue to add more complex ones!
| lasercat wrote:
| I would be interested in hearing more about which fonts win the
| most tournaments.
| wentin wrote:
| Yes! we think alike. I am planning to implement a database to
| store this info. I think it would be super interesting to see
| the result! From an extremely limited data set (Twitter), I see
| many people are reporting Inconsolata being their winner.
| warent wrote:
| How to get on HN front page unlimited times:
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| 1. Make a Show HN intersecting coding with something uncommon
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| 2. Write an article about how you got on front page with Show HN
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| 3. Write an article about how you got on the front page twice
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| 4. Write an article about how you got on the front page n+1 times
| xupybd wrote:
| What's the learning curve on a tool like this. I find I invest so
| much in learning things that are supposed to speed me up. Then
| find out they're too niche to use in my day to day.
| wentin wrote:
| I know the feeling. I dropped React because of the learning
| curve is too steep for me, eventually adopted vue.js because it
| is friendlier (from my perspective and learning path, I am
| stronger in HTML/CSS coming from my design background).
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| Knowing vue.js, it took me about one or two days to get my
| first app running and I felt learned after the first app. After
| that, getting project off the ground is not a hurtle anymore
| and i can develop new ideas and learn along the way.
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| I think knowing vue.js (probably React too since I know they
| are similar) will contribute to flattening the learning curve
| for Retool. Mostly it is learning 1) set up the data source 2)
| find places to plug in the data using {{}} syntax
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| knowing these two things can get one very far.
| xupybd wrote:
| I don't mind tools like React. There is a big learning curve
| but there are a few related things in the space that open up
| when you understand one of them. Low code tools seem to be
| very specific. So the time you invest is only applicable to
| that tool.
| spyke112 wrote:
| So it was a marketing stunt?
| wentin wrote:
| No, it is not a marketing stunt, I just genuinely want to share
| how i built it. I am a designer turned coder, so sharing and
| teaching how to adopt new skills (by others) is what got me
| here, so I tried to do the same.
|
| I am not affiliated or paid by the tools I used. I start
| writing about them on my newsletter when I found it useful, and
| then that leads to this guest post on their blog.
| skrtskrt wrote:
| Add the Hack font to this, the winning font I got (Courier Prime)
| I like less than half as much as I like Hack
| wentin wrote:
| adding more fonts including hack is definitely something we
| plan for the next release! stay tuned!
| variablen wrote:
| nice work, I thoroughly enjoyed this yesterday. how many hours
| did it take to create it?
| wentin wrote:
| I think maybe a solid 2 days of work in total, but done in
| small portions, so maybe 16 hours in total roughly. The hardest
| part is to figure out how to do the recursive stuff
| (recursively generate a pair of fonts until fonts run out) that
| took me at least 3 hours to draw the logic on paper to help me
| think. Recursive stuff always trip me up.
| nobrains wrote:
| Final 2 were JetBrains Mono and Fira Mono for me. I chose to hide
| the names until the last 2. The winner was Jetbrains Mono.
| dugmartin wrote:
| Same for me but I think showing the font names biased me - I
| just switched from Fira Code to JetBrains Mono three months
| ago.
| contingencies wrote:
| Alternatively, see https://www.programmingfonts.org/
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| Missing _B612 Mono_ (I prefer it to _Jetbrains_ ): _B612 is an
| highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be
| used on aircraft cockpit screens._
|
| _In 2010, Airbus initiated a research collaboration with ENAC
| and Universite de Toulouse III on a prospective study to define
| and validate an "Aeronautical Font": the challenge was to improve
| the display of information on the cockpit screens, in particular
| in terms of legibility and comfort of reading, and to optimize
| the overall homogeneity of the cockpit._
| https://github.com/polarsys/b612
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| Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18946601
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| re: Site presentation, I think having sample prose as well as
| sample code is important. Spacey code blocks are largely non-
| representative when it comes to typography in context.
| Particularly when working on the console with high density
| information (SQL, stringy datasets, etc.)
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