Paul Goscicki

See all those green ‘f’s?

It’s just a plain old Arial at 14px. Apparently cleartype does not like this font very much. There are similar artifacts at other sizes too. And, of course, it’s nothing new. Only today I’ve stumbled upon a so clearly visible example.

And one more thing – I *love* cleartype. It just hurts to see when it goes bad.

While Heroku is nice and all, it suffers from the same disease as every other hosted-for-you solution:

$ git push heroku
(...)
-----> Gemfile detected, running Bundler version 1.0.7
(...)

$ bundle --version
Bundler version 1.0.10

It’s a whole three patch versions behind! Now I don’t really know (and maybe don’t even really want to know) what has changed between .7 and .10, but I can easily imagine things braking precisely because those minor inconsistencies in Bundler versions.

And sure, I could downgrade to .7, but to do that just because of Heroku? Thank you, but no. I want to ride the latest.