Sitka is brilliant - comes with Windows and other MSFT stuff. Buying the software just for the font, it would still be a bargain.
From Matthew Carter: > If Verdana has any unique qualities at all it’s in the spacing. Pre-existing printer fonts are spaced for paper, not the screen, so they suffer on screen. In Verdana, it’s the regularity of the spacing that’s just as important as the positive parts of the letterform.
I bought the book years ago, and in the first 20 pages I broke into laughter several times at how awful it was. Stopped reading for my sanity. I think I threw it to the garbage, i did not want it inflicting any damage on anyone else
you can use your otf or ttf fonts on Kindles. I use Ten Oldstyle by Slimbach on my Kindle. Works great.
oh the poor souls, how sad their lives must be
Is there anyone against transactional DDL? After many years in Postgres I had to work on MySQL for a while, and migrations were such a fresh hell
I went to grad school at Columbia in the 2000's and could not be bothered to go to commencement. Instead, a few friends made our own graduation gowns and had our own ceremony at Battery Park. Today this is a proud memory.
Coding is like running: those who are still doing it in their forties are the ones that actually liked it.