Why William Gibson Is a Literary Genius | The Walrus
On the detail and world-building in 40 years of William Gibson’s work.
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What are “unusual characters” – Terence Eden’s Blog
Be liberal in what you accept:
Basically, if your form can’t register Beyoncé – it has failed.
Zonelets Home
Zonelets is a simple HTML blogging engine with scrappy, DIY spirit! I made it because I really want everyone to blog, but I felt that the existing options were generally overcomplicated and commercially-focused in a way that made web creativity feel intimidating and arcane.
I love the philosophy behind this blogging tool, which actively encourages you to learn a little bit of HTML:
Plenty of services can help you to “create a professional-looking website without writing a single line of code.” Now, thanks to Zonelets, you can create an UNPROFESSIONAL-looking website by writing NUMEROUS lines of code!
Cassie Evans’s Blog
Cassie’s redesign is gorgeous—so much attention to detail! (And performant too)
HTML Symbols, Entities, Characters and Codes
For all your copying and pasting needs:
A delightful reference for HTML Symbols, Entities and ASCII Character Codes
Owltastic • Web design by Meagan Fisher Couldwell
My goodness, Meagan’s new site design is absolutely gorgeous! The colour palette, the typography, the texture, the motion design …it all communicates character and personality. Beautiful work!
The World’s Writing Systems
What a lovely timeline of civilisation. This site makes for a nice companion piece to that database of dimensioned drawings—they’re both delightful to explore.
᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜ - YouTube
When is a space not a space?
Tom talks about ogham stones and unicode.
The Complete CSS Demo for OpenType Features - OpenType Features in CSS
Every single font-feature-settings value demonstrated in one single page.
Password Tips From a Pen Tester: Common Patterns Exposed
I’ve been wondering about this for quite a while: surely demanding specific patterns in a password (e.g. can’t be all lowercase, must include at least one number, etc.) makes it easier to crack them, right? I mean, you’re basically providing a ruleset for brute-forcing.
Turns out, yes. That’s exactly right.
When employees are faced with this requirement, they tend to:
- Choose a dictionary word or a name
- Make the first character uppercase
- Add a number at the end, and/or an exclamation point
If we know that is a common pattern, then we know where to start…
Life plus Linux: Look before you paste from a website to terminal
The (literally) hidden dangers of copying code snippets from the web and pasting them into the command line.
This cautionary tale backs up a small tip I heard for getting to understand how found code works: deliberately type it out instead of copying and pasting.
Typography Wars: Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? - The Atlantic
Glenn Fleishman on the war of attrition between primes and quotation marks on the web.
Google Noto Fonts
Google’s Noto (short for no-tofu; tofu being the rectangle of unicode sadness) is certainly ambitious. It has glyphs from pretty much every known alphabet …including Ogham and Linear B!
Miscellany № 74: zombies always make a hash of things – Shady Characters
A thoroughly lovely look at the octothorpe that skewers a myth or two along the way.
№ ⸮ ‽ ℔ ⁊ ⸿ — or, a cavalcade of characters – Shady Characters
The numero sign, the reversed question mark, the interrobang, the l b bar symbol, the Tironian et, the capitulum, and the ironieteken.
The Virtual Haircut That Could Change the World | Design | WIRED
A nice profile of BERG’s Little Printer. That Matt Webb is a smart cookie. He is also a very thoughtful cookie.
Unify – Unicode support on browsers and devices
Some excellent research for web developers: find out which unicode characters have the widest support—release useful for choosing icons.
Quotes and Accents
Jessica’s handy guide to writing the right quotes and accents on a Mac keyboard.
Shady Characters
The secret life of punctuation.
Mojibakeru kanji-animal transformers ::: Pink Tentacle
Kanji characters that transform into the animal they represent.