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I found the best anagram in English (2017)

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Unicode 15.0 Slide Show

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Visually symmetric words

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An extensive letter from Edsger Dijkstra to my 19 year old self (1989)

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<i>: The Idiomatic Text element

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4x4 ASCII Font (2016)

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The Fakoo Alphabet

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Katakana, Hiragana, and Unicode

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Complete Introduction to Particles in Japanese

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Unicode Utilities: Confusables

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Math on GitHub: Following Up

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U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

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Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (2020)

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Horrible edge cases when dealing with music

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Awesome Self-Reference

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0xA000 Font Family – A tile mastered font-family

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Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher (2016)

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Your code displays Japanese wrong

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A different kind of keyboard

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Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020)

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The Inter typeface family

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Problems with math rendering on the web (2020)

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Using aligned word vectors for instant translations with Python and Rust

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The faulty digital clock problem

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Make a document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman? (2011)

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Interactive IPA Chart

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$1 Unistroke Recognizer (2007)

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Don’t use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]

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Last Resort Font

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Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces

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Scientists rename human genes to stop MS Excel from misreading them as dates

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Every character has a story: U+213a (rotated Q) (2005)

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Known anomalies in Unicode character names (2017)

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How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?

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Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (2006)

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Show HN: HR code – Designed to be recognized by humans and OCR

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Commas in big numbers everywhere: An OpenType adventure

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Soundex – a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound

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The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)

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Translating and Interpreting Chinese Philosophy

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PracticeJS – Coding exercises in a mobile friendly web app

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Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language

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Rules for Autocomplete

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Autograms: Self-enumerating Sentences

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Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces

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The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (2014)

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The Intl.RelativeTimeFormat API

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Creating the alien writing in Infinifactory (2015)

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Picking Apart the Crashing iOS String

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The Interface font family

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Naming things (2015) [pdf]

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Base-4 fractions in Telugu

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Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures (2015)

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Extracting Chinese Hard Subs from a Video, Part 1

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Anagram Scoring

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Anagram Scoring

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Making an MSX font

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Frink – A practical calculating tool and programming language

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The Birkana hexadecimal number symbols

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Google Web Fonts Typographic Project

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If English were written like Chinese (1999)

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Cracking the Adventure Time cipher

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Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

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Twitter's missing manual

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Voynich Manuscript: word vectors and t-SNE visualization of some patterns

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Handwriting Generation with Recurrent Neural Networks

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Library of Babel

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JavaScript Internationalization API

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‫‬‏‮txet lanoitcerid-iB

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Unicode Text Converter

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Hapax legomenon

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Rap Stats: Breaking Down The Words in Rap Lyrics Over Time

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Wikipedia: Size in volumes

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Alcatraz: Xcode Package Manager

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PDFtribute website with links scraped from Twitter

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English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited

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Xkcd's mindboggling April Fools comic

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Hacking Scrabble (part 1)

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LaTeX tricks to make madman Cthulhu worshipper-like text

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An inspirational collection of UI details/hacks

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Kurdish Parentheses on OpenStreetMap, Three Ways

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$1 Unistroke Recognizer

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Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music (2022)

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The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS

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What are the "worst" spelling bee pangrams?

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Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase (2015)

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If English was written like Chinese (1999)

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Words you can spell with a calculator (2005)

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Don't use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]

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