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Monica Dinculescu
Personal blog · meowni.caprogrammingweb
Monica Dinculescu writes my-app, a personal blog at meowni.ca about programming and web. Since 2015, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Font style matcher”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Monica Dinculescu's posts and tools on web fonts, font fallbacks and Chromium OWNERS, plus a web components post. One commenter lists the blog among programming blogs worth reading.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Listed by one commenter among programming blogs they would enjoy reading.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Monica Dinculescu's blog
Most-linked posts?
- Font style matcher6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-11-23
- An intro to web components with otters4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-06-22
- Emoji: how do you render U+1F355?4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-04-04
- Doing the Work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-18
- Why Chromium has code owners2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-30
- Web fonts, boy, I don't know (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-04
- Ruby for Canadians: an instruction manual2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-07
- An intro to Reinforcement Learning (with otters)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-26
What Hacker News says?
On multiple projects I've used a tool [1] to closely match a built-in font to a web font in order to present content faster and avoid avoid FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content/Text). In one case, I replaced webfonts entirely with native platform fonts, purely for speed. With this approach you can be more practical with your goals. If the design cannot be compromised, you can still get to initial paint quickly and let th…
Comment linking /posts/web-fonts/
on “Self-host your fonts for better performance”Submitted A story about <input> as a story · 693 points
HN discussionFWIW a google search on that quote shows it was from Monica Dinculescu, if you don't mind updating that attribution. Thanks! https://meowni.ca/posts/web-components-with-otters/
Comment linking /posts/web-components-with-otters/
on “Introduction to HTML Components”Submitted Web fonts, boy, I don't know as a story · 690 points
HN discussionhttps://meowni.ca/font-style-matcher/
Comment linking /font-style-matcher/
on “Hoard-of-bitfonts: bitmap fonts from disused operating systems”Submitted Metronomes in JavaScript as a story · 205 points
HN discussionThis post explains the use of OWNERS by the Chromium project, which inspired this GitHub feature: https://meowni.ca/posts/chromium-owners/
Comment linking /posts/chromium-owners/
on “Introducing code owners”Submitted Contributing to Chromium: An Illustrated Guide as a story · 145 points
HN discussionCSS Shadow Parts, aka ::part and ::theme is the answer there: https://meowni.ca/posts/part-theme-explainer/
Comment linking /posts/part-theme-explainer/
on “Shadow DOM enabled in Firefox nightly”Submitted Why Chromium has code owners as a story · 95 points
HN discussionhttps://jonpauluritis.com , https://hillelwayne.com , https://meowni.ca/ , https://www.gwern.net/ , https://patrickcollison.com/ , https://danluu.com/ , https://drewdevault.com/ , https://sivers.org/blog
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on “Ask HN: Examples of simple sites (text only or limited images)?”Submitted Emoji: how do you render U+1F355? as a story · 92 points
HN discussionhttps://meowni.ca/font-style-matcher/ Is a tool that lets you play around to discover good fallback settings.
Comment linking /font-style-matcher/
on “Modern Font Stacks”Submitted Web fonts, boy, I don't know (2016) as a story · 76 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.codinghorror.com http://lea.verou.me/ http://ejohn.org/ http://byfat.xxx/ http://www.windytan.com/ http://meowni.ca/ and many others
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on “Ask HN: What are some programming blog posts that you would enjoy reading?”Submitted An intro to Reinforcement Learning (with otters) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionTL;DR: This is pixel emoji font: > 166 emoji in total, 12x12px each, in one of six colors > If you want to use it, you can download the font here[TTF], and use it as a `font-face` : @font-face { font-family: og-emoji; src: url(/fonts/og-dcm-emoji.ttf); } .og { font-family: og-emoji, sans-serif; } <span class='og'> {emoji_character}</span> > If you’re going to use it, maybe give me some credit, because I spent an unh…
Comment linking /fonts/og-dcm-emoji.ttf
on “I Made A 2001-era Emoji Font That You Can Use (2016)”Submitted Emoji: how do you get from U+1F355 to rendered emoji? as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emoji: how do you render U+1F355? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted An intro to web components with otters as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polymer Cheat Sheet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Font style matcher as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Chromium has code owners as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Font Style Matcher as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An intro to Reinforcement Learning (with otters) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automatic visual diffing with Puppeteer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted To_emoji – a Twitter bot that translates tweets to emoji as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Polymer 2.x Cheat Sheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tool to help find fallback font to minimize FOUT as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emoji: how do you get from U+1F355 to Slice of Pizza? as a story · 2 points
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