Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin

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Bwbach, My Guardian Goblin

(robertmay.photography)

by robotmay

robotmay • OP
210h
Just as an apology in advance for people reading the article on Linux: er, sorry. I've had a few people point out that Firefox on Linux renders the font particularly shitly (it somehow seems to get both the aliasing and colour wrong, wat). I'll fix it soon, but in the meantime using reader mode might save your eyes.
1. andai
  19h
  For me (on Linux) the font is much prettier and much easier to read in Firefox. Firefox also seems to render it lighter than Chromium-based browsers.
  Edit: I looks so different that I really thought it was falling back to a different font, but the Google Fonts page produces the same effect.
  https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cormorant+Garamond
  On my Android (Chromium based browser) it renders very thin and dark as well. On Firefox on Android, it renders the same, but much lighter.
  1. robotmay • OP
    09h
    How odd! I did some research into why people have been finding it looks odd and it appears to be tied to Mac doing something called font dilation to slightly fatten up thin fonts when displayed as light text on dark backgrounds, whereas Linux/Windows don't tend to have such a feature enabled by default. Shows how long it's been since I made any attempt at good typography, I've never heard of this before!
    I've bumped the brightness of the text on Linux/Windows to hopefully make it a bit easier to read/overpower the anti-aliasing thinning it out. I'll have to go fish out an old ThinkPad to test it properly as I ditched most of my machines outside of my Mac when I quit programming full time (I don't really like any OS but Mac is still the easiest for photo/video I find).
throw-the-towel
110h
This is somewhat off-topic, but the colour contrast on this site absolutely sucks. Dark gray on what presumably is darker gray, in a thin font to boot, is a pain to read.
1. robotmay • OP
  010h
  Are you on Linux perchance? I've had a couple of people mention this in the last day. On Mac the font is pretty close to white, but I was sent a screenshot of it in Firefox on Linux and it looked rubbish, and notably greyer for some reason.
ochronus
02d
Nicely done! And yes, I'd love to see it open sourced.
Algernoon
33d
Are there any other existing edge proxies written in Erlang or Elixir out there? It’s not an area I’m very familiar with
1. robotmay • OP
  23d
  Must admit I'd not even looked about. I don't know of any off the top of my head but I'd be very curious if anyone else knows of any. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a number of closed-source ones in use at scale - it seems to be well-suited to it, in my opinion.
throwawayffffas
210h
> Whilst Elixir, Erlang, and the BEAM (the holy trinity) can handle a ridiculous number of concurrent slow requests, Traefik could not.
Have you tried nginx?
1. robotmay • OP
  110h
  I've never liked configuring nginx I must admit, but I would be curious to see how it would handle this sorta workload. If anyone's experienced in configuring it or running it with lots of slow streamed responses I'd be curious to know your thoughts.
downrightmike
02d
One step away from an attack barrier
codeduck
09h
Glorious.
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