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neverpanic.de
Personal blog · neverpanic.de/blogprogrammingsystems
neverpanic.de is a personal blog at neverpanic.de about programming and systems. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on self-hosting Google Web Fonts and downloading the fonts Google serves, including a script for doing so. The only comment cites a related script that links to it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I'm really not sure. However, I'm piping are the exact same fonts Google is serving in their hosted CSS-service - in a similar fashion like Clemens Lang's Bash script ( https://neverpanic.de/blog/2014/03/19/downloading-google-web... ) is doing that. The only thing that bothers me is the generation of the zip file, but streaming these files without any caching on the server would be very expensive (especially on a si…
Comment linking /blog/2014/03/19/downloading-google-web-fonts-for-local-hosting/
on “Self-Hosting Google Web Fonts”Submitted Baidu Spider Caused More Than 80% of MacPorts Trac's HTTP Traffic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source in a Headunit as a story · 1 points
HN discussion