daily knowledge: with the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007, Microsoft switched the default font of their office suite from Times New Roman to Calibri. it distinguished itself by being a sans serif font with rounded edges that was appealing in both large print and at low resolutions. it was replaced by Aptos in january of this year.
Being annoying on Cohost
- she/her
I'm decent at recognizing Sans Serif fonts. Present me with a Serif font, and I'm screwed.
run by @chillin
tldr: here's a story and a video about the coolest thing that's every happened to me.
So, as you may have seen, I recently made a website called One Million Checkboxes. It had...a million checkboxes on it. But the bit was that they were global - checking or unchecking a box changed it for everyone on the site immediately.
The site was (shockingly?) popular; hundreds of thousands of players checked over 650,000,000 boxes in the two weeks that I ran the site. It made the New York Times; there's a Wikipedia page. The whole thing was nuts.
About a week into running the site I thought I'd been hacked. And a few hours after that I was sobbing - extraordinarily proud at some brilliant teens.
I've written up the story on my blog and made my first youtube video about it!
Originally I wanted to crosspost the whole thing here, but there are enough images and gifs in the blog (and enough emotion in my voice in the video - I keep crying thinking about it!) that I can't really do that here. Sorry!
Anyway! Hope you enjoy the story :)