14 Jun 23
so cool
I often write documents, such as exams and lecture notes, that contain both Latin and Arabic script, often on the same line of text. This can be challenging due to the complications of mixing of LTR (left-to-right) and RTL (right-to-left) scripts. This seems like an easy problem to solve for software developers, and it is, only not in software with graphical WYSIWYG interfaces, such as Word or OpenOffice. (I’m sure everyone who has tried writing mixed direction text in such software share my frustration with them, and I will therefore refrain from rants.) Since my shift to exclusively producing and editing text in plain text formats (.txt, .mkd, .tex, etc.) with the editor Vim, writing texts with mixed directionality has become a lot easier. This post is an attempt to explain how.
13 Jun 23
this is an annotated PDF. you can read the reader’s remarks in your browser.
01 Jun 23
Dusk OS is designed to be maximally useful while being minimally complex. It builds from bare metal to a simple Forth-based operating system and C compiler in only a few thousand lines of code.
GitHub - JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown: ⚙️ Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
⚙️ Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules. - GitHub - JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown: ⚙️ Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
27 May 23
Fluid responsive design
On 20 December 1973, the Wall Street Journal quoted Sayre as: “Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.”
17 May 23
in e-ink device that is (optionally) preassembled
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16 May 23
cool
15 May 23
in which 94-year-old noam chomsky verbally promenades uninterrupted on artificial intelligence and other things
94-years-old (how does he hold on to all this stuff still?)
maybe it’s zettelkasten
because why not more openbsd resources.
openbsd is the linux desktop that you’ve been waiting for
stop complaining
all you need is
- a browser
- a terminal
- a text editor
the pager will, of course, eventually go off at 2AM
Let people pop the hood.
14 May 23
Summary: These web-design trends are reactions against the perceived uniformity of web design. Brutalism can be used effectively in visual design, but antidesign should be avoided for most products.