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Metal Toad Blog
Company blog · metaltoad.com/blogprogrammingweb
Metal Toad Blog is the company blog at metaltoad.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Metal Toad's blog is a software development agency's site; the linked post covers using a single font-family name with @font-face to avoid faux italic and bold. The comments are a job listing and a citation of that post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Metal Toad helps organizations apply AI strategy with AWS consulting, cloud migration, cost optimization, and application modernization services at scale.
What Hacker News says?
Metal Toad Media | Software Engineer | Portland OR | https://www.metaltoad.com My team is hiring Software Engineers with Front End/Back End experience. Our team builds analytics applications for enterprise-grade IoT applications across multiple clients. We're a software development agency, so our tech stacks vary depending on the quarter/project/team. Our requirements are pretty simple: - 2+ years experience - Exper…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Pitfalls to look out for when writing a canvas game for Android devices as a story · 13 points
HN discussionOne thing you might want to consider is just using the same family for each of those versions of the font, rather than using the same name as the font file, per this article: http://www.metaltoad.com/blog/how-use-font-face-avoid-faux-i... Also, I hooked up support for data: URLs so you can use your stylesheet as a source for fonts (if someone was interested in extracting the .woff files back to individual files, for…
Comment linking /blog/how-use-font-face-avoid-faux-italic-and-bold-browser-styles
on “Show HN: Download and inline Google web fonts from the command-line”Submitted Mechanizing git-bisect: Bug hunting for the Lazy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Framework is dead. Long live the CMS. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Reflections on Working with New-to-the-Company Junior Developers (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programmers: To be considered a professional, you need to act like one. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Response to New York Times HTML5 Privacy FUD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Simple Device Diagram for Responsive Design Planning as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boilerplate 1.0 for Drupal 7: Responsive HTML5 & SASS as a story · 1 points
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