Depends on what you mean by calm. I like this article from a Math Academy developer (his writing is great, the site I have mixed feelings about currently):
Gordon Ramsey (in one of his failing restaurant tear-down shows) said that pictures on menus meant the food was shit, and to axe them. He's coming from fine dining, of course, but I couldn't disagree more. Sometimes a lot of the menu is illustrated, but the thing I want to try isn't, so I have to Google it and take a chance.
I rarely miss Linux, but I liked being able to have compose keys, most of which were very logical and fast to type. Now on MacOS, I either have to know the option (alt) combination or long press, which makes my writing with accents way slower.
If you frequently write the same characters, it's straightforward to create your own keyboard layout that matches your usage, using https://software.sil.org/ukelele/
My favorite Linux layout was US International + AltGr dead keys. Basically a US keyboard, but if you want an accented character, just press the AltGr+Accent key, then the letter.
Oh cool, I hadn't heard that term until you mentioned it. Apparently the name was in flux in the early days. The Wikipedia page for Sans Serif has an interesting footnote:
> master sign-painter James Callingham writes in his textbook "Sign Writing and Glass Embossing" (1871) that "What one calls San-serif, another describes as grotesque; what is generally known as Egyptian, is some times called Antique, though it is difficult to say why, seeing that the letters so designated do not date farther back than the close of the last century. Egyptian is perhaps as good a term as could be given to the letters bearing that name, the blocks being characteristic of the Egyptian style of architecture. These letters were first used by sign-writers at the close of the last century, and were not introduced in printing till about twenty years later. Sign-writers were content to call them "block letters," and they are sometimes so-called at the present day; but on their being taken in hand by the type founders, they were appropriately named Egyptian. The credit of having introduced the ordinary square or san-serif letters also belongs to the sign-writer, by whom they were employed half a century before the type founder gave them his attention, which was about the year 1810."
> If you look closely, those aren't angle brackets, they're characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which are allowed in Go identifiers. From Go's perspective, that's just one long identifier.
I'm working on a Unicode visualization tool [note 1]. It's meant to visualize transformations and relationships between characters, as well as connect everything directly to the exact lines in the Unicode Character Database (UCD), which defines these relationships. The UCD is a series of text files, it also has an XML version.
I love online Unicode tools, serious ones and silly ones, and I use them often for fun or for development. What I see online is that few technical people have a good understanding of Unicode, or have big misconceptions about how it works. I'd like to change that, through visualizations and direct links to the data sources (the aforementioned UCD) and links to the Unicode documentation (which is well-written but can be difficult to navigate or even find).
I've worked a lot on it, but I'm totally stuck again. I get too zoomed in and it's hard to see the big picture, plus it's difficult to know how much effort I can realistically put in because I don't know how big the market is. It's a niche tool, but how niche? Would anyone pay for it? But I'm not sure how to do market research, especially for a niche like this. Any advice would be appreciated!
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