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Wow, can't be used as a braille alternative that people with sight can also understand?


It can be used as a braille alternative that blind people can't even read.


Observation:

Braille is 3 px in height. But only 2 px wide and monospaced, while this font is variable width.

Oh, and several characters share representation in this, say other threads here.


We at zenskar.com are building a billing platform that can plug into your metering store (in addition to the traditional api way) and generate invoices for your customers. We have a query layer that can be used to define aggregates that in turn can be used to create invoices. I will reach out to you on email to see if we can solve your problems.


Zenskar | REMOTE (India preferred) | Full stack engineer / Senior Engineer & Architect / Head of Engineering | INR 30 - 80 lacs + ESOPs (0.05% - 2%) | https://zenskar.com Zenskar is building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. Founded by repeat entrepreneurs with successful exits in the past, we are funded by marquee global VCs.

We are looking for engineers with experience building high throughput distributed systems. You should be excited to design and build systems from scratch by thinking a few steps ahead. Preferably, someone with a background in Python/Javascript.

As a founding team member, you have immense responsibility. You own and drive the execution. Our culture is deeply focussed on iterating quickly, deploying fast and having a great developer experience (all of which you will play a part in helping realize). Being remote first, we thrive via async communication. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and know how to have fun :)

More details about the company, culture and roles can be found here: https://zenskar.com/careers. To apply, please email apurv [at] zenskar [dot] com.


Zenskar | REMOTE (India preferred) | Full stack engineer / Senior Engineer & Architect / Head of Engineering | INR 30 - 80 lacs + ESOPs (0.05% - 2%) | https://zenskar.com

Zenskar is building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. Founded by repeat entrepreneurs with successful exits in the past, we are funded by marquee global VCs.

We are looking for engineers with experience building high throughput distributed systems. You should be excited to design and build systems from scratch by thinking a few steps ahead. Preferably, someone with a background in Python/Javascript.

As a founding team member, you have immense responsibility. You own and drive the execution. Our culture is deeply focussed on iterating quickly, deploying fast and having a great developer experience (all of which you will play a part in helping realize). Being remote first, we thrive via async communication. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and know how to have fun :)

More details about the company, culture and roles can be found here: https://zenskar.com/careers. To apply, please email apurv [at] zenskar [dot] com.


Zenskar | Founding Engineer | India | REMOTE (India preferred)

Zenskar is building new-age billing and pricing infrastructure for SaaS companies. As SaaS pricing evolves from vanilla subscription based models to more granular usage based models, legacy billing and pricing infrastructure doesn’t work.

We are looking for an engineering generalist to lead our technical architecture and prototyping. Preferably, someone with a background in Python/Javascript. You will help us build a tech team with processes designed for high iteration speed.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously, and know how to have fun :) Health of our team is most important to us. Balance work with life - be productive, not busy.

More details about the company, culture and roles can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Pd4y_jfk45FwCCXTkhYfJcT...

If you’re interested, please email apurv [at] zenskar [dot] com.


Any idea what CMS increment uses? Their site is very lightweight and served from S3, but I'm curious how they might be generating it.


https://cmsdetect.com says it's Contentful.


Your website is super snappy. I see that it has a perfect lighthouse score too. Can you explain the stack you used and how you set it up?


It is a statically generated site created with vitepress[1] and hosted on Cloudflare Pages[2]. The only dynamic functionality is the contact form which sends a JSON request to a Cloudflare Worker[3], which in turn dispatches the message to me via SNS[4].

It is modeled off of the code used to generate Vue blog[5], but I made a ton of little modifications, including some changes directly to vitepress.

Keep in mind that vitepress is very much an early work in progress and the blog functionality is just kinda tacked on, the default use case is documentation. It also definitely has bugs and is under heavy development so wouldn't recommend it quite yet unless you are actually interested in getting your handa dirty with Vue 3. I am glad I used it because it gave me an excuse to start learning Vue, but unless you are just using the default theme to create a documentation site, it will require some work.

1. https://vitepress.vuejs.org/

2. https://pages.cloudflare.com/

3. https://workers.cloudflare.com/

4. https://aws.amazon.com/sns/

3. https://github.com/vuejs/blog


On the other hand you could probably make the table of content be always visible when the screen size allows it. Clicking on the burger in the site menu to get a page-specific sidebar is a bit counter-intuitive.


Thanks :). Found one flaw in your already crazy optimized vitpress site - the images aren't cached :P


cf-cache-status: HIT


Try this: http://www.doinggoodfellows.org/ It's by a friend for this exact same purpose


looks awesome.. which bootstrap theme is this?


The URL of the bootstap CSS file indicates that it is flatstrap: http://littlesparkvt.com/flatstrap/


i did take a look at it, but they look quite different... has he customized flatstrap? or is it some out of the box theme? basically, where did 2.css come from?


Yeah I customised flatstrap (colors and fonts mainly).

2.css is part of the little CSS build process I came up with for this site. There are a bunch of LESS files in a directory (https://github.com/h2s/ppladdressbook.org/tree/master/_style...). Then there's a rake task to build them into {{site.version}}.css. This means I can update the CSS, bump the version number, run jekyll, and push the changes live being certain that there won't be any annoying caching issues stopping people from getting the updated CSS.


nice! n thanks..


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