There was an app that did this, early in the pandemic I believe. I can’t remember the name. You would send anonymous letters into the void and someone else would respond anonymously. Very well-designed app, where I had several surprisingly meaningful and heartwarming exchanges. I think it shut down after a few weeks due to moderation difficulties though.

EDIT: Found it - https://gentle.app

Same for me, while the actual clear button, ironically, does not work reliably.

Hey, I looked into this too! And I came to the conclusion that it's completely true.

The movie she mentioned in the anecdote was I Want To Believe. Here is the actual scanned screenplay, rather than re-typed:

https://lvei.net/wp-content/uploads/script-de-prod/The-X-Fil...

Just scroll through and look. In almost every paragraph or dialogue block, the last line ends very close to the right margin. Pretty much the only places that doesn't happen is when there's a single short line of dialogue by itself, meaning it doesn't wrap to a second line.

Looking through scripts on Boggsfiles, it's much more inconsistent, but it does happen, and perhaps more frequently in the later seasons. Here's one, from season 9; take a look at page 10 (page 13 in the PDF) for example, but it really happens throughout.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dlnc2prPVgPLN4CQSiMQMvD2VSl...

Hah! I was wondering if it was maybe something he started doing over time and should have looked more at the later seasons I guess. It's comforting that it's not just a fun story.

So since the math extrapolates linearly and there is apparently no cost, why would anyone settle for anything other than 1680 items per week?

The differences are even subtler if you compare it to Source Sans (which it is derived from) rather than Whitney (which it is replacing). I posted this comparison last time Nebula Sans were on the HN front page: https://imgur.com/JPwgYkj

I have your feed in my RSS reader! This seemed like something HN would be interested in.

I should be faster next time then: my entry got tagged as [dupe] ahah! Also: I somehow got 10x the usual amount of traffic today, and my website is sort of on fire!

... and currently nonresponsive.

Try now!

Now working. Thanks.

Still not loading

Thanks! The traffic has been wild today!

Looks like I should feel decent about my 72 083! Got a perfect 10k on two questions which surprised me.

Fun game, but 10 objects felt a little much for a daily challenge I think.

That XKCD idea is basically the Swedish Blåvitt product line that existed during the 80s and early 90s.

Or the contemporary "no name" brand in Canada.

https://jacobnelson.ca/2022/01/17/the-beauty-of-no-name/

Germany also has some product lines that have similar brutalist design

What is the serif typeface used on the website? It’s been renamed (I assume) to ant_serif and scrubbed of any other identifiers. It’s very pleasant.

It's Bureau Serif from Smuss Type Kiosk: https://typekiosk.smuss.studio/bureau-serif

He forgot to scrub the vendor ID field.

This seems to be tbe authors modus operandi. Steal.

This is not a game for me - I don’t enjoy scrambled letter games in the first place, and I don’t really respond to time pressure in games. That said, I don’t think you should change it. It’s conceptually clear as it is, and adding a forgiving mode would just make it wishy washy. The simplicity is appealing and it doesn’t have to be for everyone!

This is a game for me. I play lots of scrambled letter games (mainly https://squaredle.app/ every day). Time pressure ruins it for me.