AI Usage Disclaimer

I want to start this post with an apology. I did not expect it would take this many days to write another devlog post. I'd be lying if I said I was busy. I've been postpoing writing this, mainly because I was busy with things, then fell sick, yada yada. There's always 10,000+ excuses, but the main reason was the lack of motivation, which is the worst excuse one can ever use. I'll be more frequent, either weekly or biweekly, NOT or whatever like I said in the last devlog.

Anyway, let me start sharing what I've been upto.

Fonts

One thing I've been spending unnecessarily long time on is which fonts to use on this website. When I started this blog, I wanted to use less common fonts that looked nice. So, I started with Zalando Sans, which was short-lived because I came across Funnel Sans, it felt like a better Inter to me.

As I went on reading others' posts on their websites, I realized reading paragraphs with a sans font felt very distracting. So I decided to move to a serif font. Then spent some more days deciding weather to be a sans guy or a serif guy, and the result is what you see right now. I ended up defaulting to a serif font, but added extra options for sans and monospace. I'm now locking-in on these chosen fonts for 3 years, no matter what happens.

One little optimization I'm doing is limiting the charset of the said fonts to ASCII (plus some other characters), saving up ~40% network bandwidth per font. Of course, the underlying assumption is that I control all of the text content on the website, and it's mostly English.

That's about it. Now y'all can choose whichever one you like :)