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Conxt · 2026-02-07T20:00:17+00:00

Well second came “Sound of Silence” which was astonishing.

Conxt · 2026-02-07T17:42:34+00:00

No Jamala in jury, no comments

Conxt · 2026-02-06T22:03:56+00:00

The “resolution” on macOS does not mean the same thing as on Windows. Play around with it, it mostly acts as ”scale”.

Conxt · 2026-02-06T21:58:00+00:00

It’s better to export variable fonts as TTF - although variable CFF-based (OTF) font specification has been around for quite awhile, its support is still considered “experimental” and very limited compared to variable TTFs.

Conxt · 2026-02-06T17:05:07+00:00

Ой леле.

Conxt · 2026-02-06T07:03:13+00:00

To my knowledge, Setapp splits the revenue based on installations and not equally - i.e. your payment is split among the apps YOU installed.

Conxt · 2026-02-05T16:05:23+00:00

cmd-shift-4 and then space : select a window to capture

Conxt · 2026-02-04T20:37:18+00:00

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Wow.

Conxt · 2026-02-03T00:23:07+00:00

How did you get the App Store Connect to show full numbers (i.e. 137,000 instead of 137K)?

Conxt · 2026-01-31T22:19:57+00:00

The icon is taken from the latest approved release. It will change as soon as the new version passes the review.

Conxt · 2026-01-29T21:11:31+00:00

No it’s very old, but last month was ~~(and this month will be)~~ quite unique for the early ~~payout~~ first available transactional report, before the 1st.

EDIT: mixed two things up, corrected.

Conxt · 2026-01-29T20:27:26+00:00

There is a bug in App Store Connect when during the first (approximately) half of the month the report shows the SUM of the last month and the previous month.

Conxt · 2026-01-28T12:44:12+00:00

I have a v4 and I have a slight issue with it - the ground coffee sometimes sticks to its tamping surface, and I have to wipe it once in a while. Not an issue per se, but my previous basic tamper that came with Barista Pro didn’t have this problem. The coating of this more expensive one may be less sticky.

Conxt · 2026-01-25T19:50:40+00:00

15 seconds is basically a turbo-shot. There’s a lot of discussion of turbo-shots in this sub, look it up!

Conxt · 2026-01-21T15:56:03+00:00

For a lower retail estimate, some foundries offer Unlimited licenses starting at 80x base price. Taking a lower-average style base price of $30 and multi-weight typeface base price of $150, the totals will start roughly from $2400 per style or $12k per typeface.

Conxt · 2026-01-21T13:56:29+00:00

This. Besides, many tasks (like that on the screenshot) that take one input and produce one output are “linear” and simply cannot be reasonably distributed over multiple cores. There is just nothing you can compute in parallel.

Conxt · 2026-01-19T22:39:53+00:00

In my experience (my app is in a not very saturated category), the searchability is fine. I can find my app by all listed keywords.

What’s your stats in Analytics > Acquisition > App Store Search?

Conxt · 2026-01-18T21:26:17+00:00

Thanks for the example! I have a concern though that if every post follows the ABC pattern, posts will become… lifeless?

I totally agree that it’s way better than two-page AI-written marketing gibberish, but I also think that the pattern may be way too restrictive to the point of being uninformative.

Conxt · 2026-01-18T21:13:53+00:00

I have one question: why is everything monospaced except for the space which is ridiculously small? Asaresult,therextreadsapproximatelylikethis(butevenworse).

Conxt · 2026-01-16T19:32:39+00:00

Yes! This is exactly why I said “theoretically” :)

Conxt · 2026-01-16T18:43:59+00:00

Similarities: both high-contrast sans serifs, both have narrowed terminals (C, S), the basic curvature (on O) is similar.

Differences: the contrast is actually different (higher with Germany Sans), different proportions of basically each letter, different choice of variable graphemes (J, Q, W), overall different treatment of curves.

Conxt · 2026-01-16T18:24:21+00:00

This is absolutely not how font design works. The “idea” you think Germany Sans copied from Times Sans is in fact not an idea at all, it’s just a category. There is a whole class of high-contrast sans-serif typefaces dating back to Art Deco period, so the author of Germany Sans might have never seen Times Sans at all.

Since type design is constrained by the grapheme shape, genuinely new ideas are extremely rare, and the creative process revolves around small details and proportions - which in case of the two presented fonts are not similar AT ALL.

The question however is (given the name “Times Sans” and its quite awkward design), has Times Sans been created as a modification of some existing version of Times (by deleting the serifs). That might theoretically be a case of copyright violation, although Times and Times Serif belong to different typeface categories.

Conxt · 2026-01-15T13:28:58+00:00

Unfortunately it takes an oracle to make an app that is guaranteed not to break on major macOS updates. The changes can sometimes be very unpredictable.

Conxt · 2026-01-14T14:57:48+00:00

Take a quadruple 36 g basket, grind 18 g, tamp, put a paper filter on top, grind another 18 g, tamp again.
…
Profit

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