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Nix and webdev news from aktsbot
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Nix and webdev news from aktsbot is a personal blog at blog.aktsbot.in about systems and programming. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on Nix, web development news, and fixing blurry fonts on Linux, including stem darkening. Commenters point to the font post as a source of a fix that worked for them.
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.
Tips and tricks for all things Linux, Unix, BSD's and Web Development
Most-linked posts?
- No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-01-03
What Hacker News says?
I can't say precisely, but it fixed a lot of the blurring and bad rendering in general for me. I found it in a couple articles mentioning it, this is one: https://blog.aktsbot.in/no-more-blurry-fonts.html
Comment linking /no-more-blurry-fonts.html
on “Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font”Submitted No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023) as a story · 174 points
HN discussionOff: https://blog.aktsbot.in/img/stem-darkening-off.png On: https://blog.aktsbot.in/img/stem-darkening-on.png Personally, I never had issues with fonts on any OS that much except when I connected my M1 MacBook to a 1080p monitor, then it felt like the fonts had no anti-aliasing at all.
Comment linking /img/stem-darkening-on.png
on “No more blurry fonts in Linux (2023)”Submitted No more blurry fonts in Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted No more blurry fonts in Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better Font Rendering in Linux as a story · 1 points
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