795: Hosting Private Fonts on the Edge With Cloudflare
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax. On this Monday hasty treat, we're going to be talking about how we solved a problem that we had using some interesting technology. |
| 0:10.0 | We had some fonts in our application, and our app is open source as you know but these fonts are licensed and you've got to keep these licensed fonts secure. |
| 0:19.4 | So we built a miniature little font serving platform to help us serve fonts with a white list |
| 0:26.9 | across any of the sites that I'm using personally. |
| 0:29.7 | My name is Scott Tolensky, I'm a developer from Denver and with me as always is West Boss what's up West. |
| 0:34.4 | Hey not too much excited to be here. I'm up at the cottage now for a good chunk of the summer |
| 0:40.9 | which I'm pretty excited about so I got my cottage office |
| 0:44.5 | ready to rock yeah so if you hear beavers or something like that that's that's |
| 0:49.9 | probably just outside I got the windows open right now. You guys got lunes up there. Is that a thing? |
| 0:55.3 | You got lunes? Tons of lunes. Yeah, you're kidding. Is that a thing that we have? Our money is called the loony. |
| 1:00.9 | Like, yeah. Oh yeah, we got lots of it is actually it's the lunes are really |
| 1:06.5 | interesting because there's only one loon per kind of like area of the lake. So every summer you hope that like a loon stays in |
| 1:16.4 | your area right because they're they're like mean loons like if there's two loons in |
| 1:20.9 | the area they'll like spear each other's brains out. |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah, there's some gnar, if you ever want to go down a YouTube rabbit hole, like |
| 1:28.9 | search up like lunes being aggressive. |
| 1:31.5 | I love the sounds they make. They're fantastic. Yeah, we love, |
| 1:35.0 | apparently that sound is when they are stressed out. So every time we hear it |
| 1:41.4 | we're like, oh no and it's usually when there's like a |
| 1:43.4 | C deu or we just had Canada today yesterday, they hate the fireworks, but every |
| 1:48.2 | year we see like two little loon babies just trailing the mom and we're happy to see it. |
| 1:53.0 | Wow, you know what else I'm happy to see? |
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