Sebastian Brink from JustType.de interviewed me about Kernest.com. I took the opportunity to spell out some of the principles guiding Kernest’s ongoing development. I’m taking the liberty of re-posting this here for archival purposes. What is Kernest? What do you do? Kernest is an font directory and web font serving engine. The web font serving […]
Category: Kernest
Kernest as an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
“We Make Shitty Software… With Bugs!…We know our software sucks. But it’s shipping! Next time we’ll do better, but even then it will be shitty. The only software that’s perfect is one you’re dreaming about. ” – Dave Winer Kernest, my web fonts service, has been publicly available for just under a month. In that […]
Kernest.com is Public
Wow. It’s been an amazing couple of weeks. Kernest.com is public and is getting some nice uptake. Thank you all. I had fantastic weekend in Atlanta at TypeCon2009 talking with font technologists, type designers, and other people building the web fonts marketplace. Unfortunately, Cullect is down. Down for the count. I’m planning a massive rebuild […]
Kernest.com, @font-face Service – Now in Private Preview
As I mentioned over at the Kernest blog, I sent out the first batch of emails announcing a sneak preview of Kernest – the @font-face, type-as-a-service project I’ve been working on. If you’d like to check it out and give your blog a font upgrade, drop me an email and I’ll reply with a password. […]
Kernestly
This weekend I made some significant head way on one of my key 2009 projects: Kernest.com. Right now, Kernest is also the most likely candidate for my 5 minute Ignite Mpls presentation.