From 4d6b07550cc08ed5639132499cc142f65103ef7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nycki Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2025 14:55:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] a small book, cont --- content/blogette/1.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/blogette/1.md b/content/blogette/1.md index 7fba898..7cf6810 100644 --- a/content/blogette/1.md +++ b/content/blogette/1.md @@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ okay so like im pretty sure my phone could scan a QR code printed on my 600 dpi what's something fun that's less than 8 kB, that wouldn't already fit on a business card? hmm. a small book I guess? +the nice thing about a book is that it sidesteps the problem of needing a way to stitch multiple pages together, because books already work like that. the downside about a book is that if I wanted to write a lot of text on the back of a business card I could just print regular text in a highly legible low-resolution font. + +like okay if I push my printer to its absolute limit I could probably cram a font into 4 x 8 pixels at 600 dpi, right? which means each character takes up 32 "dots" worth of space. meanwhile, if a 177x177 pixel QR code has 2 kB of data, that implies that each character is taking up... 15 dots worth of space? damn okay so this might actually be more efficient, assuming I need that much text. + {% for p in collections['blogette-pages'] %}{{loop.index}} {% endfor %} \ No newline at end of file