the darnedest thing is written and designed by Steven Hum with the following..

production environment

platform

• Debian Linux

the darnedest thing

• Sinatra web application DSL
• kramdown markdown syntax converter
• Slim template engine
• XapianFu full text indexing library
• Magnific Popup lightbox

comments processing

• Ruby Mail library
• Gmail spam filtering

web server

• Caddy HTTP server
• Puma web server

hosting services

• Servarica VPS provider
• FatCow Domain Name registrar

Other tools used to construct this site can be found here.

keyboard layouts

are a primary subject of interest on this site. Writing and caring about the tools to do so seem to go hand in hand.

The current daily driver being used to compose these blog entries can be found in daily beakl.

fonts

somehow became a thing on this site.

Source code typefaces have always been of paramount importance, being pervasive in my daily use for coding, email and desktop. PragmataPro and Iosevka were the de facto coding fonts until discovering the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font. Failing to find a monospaced version of that font, i created my own Iosevka variant.

Its use eventually led to a font exploration for ereaders with a dyslexic focus in mind—removing all mirrored glyphs along with other typeface adjustments. Many many font iterations improved the dyslexic readability and distinctiveness of the typefaces created, culminating in the current suite of font variants..

Each of the above fonts build upon the preceding font. All inherit the base dyslexic glyph set for lower case b d p q and n m u, adding their own distinctive upper and lower case glyph shapes.

After eliminating all mirrored glyph shapes and experimenting with upper case glyphs with extended descenders, i may finally have settled on a duet of ereading fonts: the stria and grote fonts, a pair of complementary “flat” typefaces (whose influence have also made their way onto this site’s webfonts).

Fonts may be found in the font repos.

dotfiles

the current dotfiles containing the sources, configuration files and scripts described in the various articles can be found here.

To avoid an unnecessarily large download including all historical commits, pull only the latest repository files with..

git clone --depth 1 git@github.com:sdothum/dotfiles.git

monday, 14 march 2016

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