Table of contents
(List updated 2025-09-18 20:17)
Off-topic
- 1703 Jesus’ birth was first announced to homeless people /
- 1096 The clueless owner of a new... distortion pedal /
- 1093 CPI /
- 1087 Google’s doesn’t know the difference between a guitar and a piano /
- 1077 New Year resolutions /
- 1076 MIC or not MIC, that is the question /
- 984 Mimic3, or the state of TTS on Linux /
- 687 How people in IT don’t understand failures /
- 645 Why are research surveys always so bad? /
- 536 Toronto Old City Hall chimes /
- 412 Beware of your fluidsynth gain setting /
- 408 iRig 2 + LG Velvet /
- 387 The ugly metronome /
- 304 The odd one out — the curious case of the third quarter in many English-style chimes /
- 193 How are you? /
- 177 From the weird department: the Wenyan programming language /
- 174 Most Linux systems already include a multi-room sound system, it’s called PulseAudio /
- 1quater No one who asks for a “Chinese translation” knows what they’re talking about /
Design
- 1176 Captchas should be outlawed /
- 1073 The state of HTML email at the end of 2023 /
- 1067 The sculpted columns at Museum and Finch West stations /
- 1066 What is Joy (2020)? /
- 929 Using the Epson ET-4850 (and Epson Eco-Tank printers in general) on Linux /
- 904 Toronto’s mayoral election and Wikipedia’s blatant bias /
- 483 Research paper showing inaccuracy of Google Translate shows instead neither designers nor translators are valued /
- 200 Lato revisited: We should start treating digits as if they had case /
- 196 The future Internet is unsearchable, unarchivable, inaccessible. The future is here /
- 187 Apple’s “Sin-Ji” voice is a case of cultural insensitivity /
- 137 I wonder how many fonts out there have a usable ordn feature /
- 100bis Let’s talk about content-free email newsletters /
- 36 Bad UI is bad customer service /
- 17bis Accessibility laws might be why fonts have become so big on websites /
- 17 A trend? Sans serif roman + serif italic /
- 15 Both W3C and Chicago are wrong about “Chinese” names /
- 10 How to typeset Chinese-language book titles the traditional way on the web /
- 8 Google’s Noto has failed its mandate /
- 7 The Unihan code charts aren’t user-friendly /
- 1ter New fonts for the new blog for the new year /
- 1 Why your Chinese-language index must have headings /
Art
- 1085 The year so far /
- 1074 The JVC finally died /
- 1067 The sculpted columns at Museum and Finch West stations /
- 1066 What is Joy (2020)? /
- 943 Using Tomoe River paper on the Epson ET-4850 /
- 929 Using the Epson ET-4850 (and Epson Eco-Tank printers in general) on Linux /
- 731 End of the tunnel in sight after almost half a year /
- 277 Cue from Japanese calligraphy /
- 267 Consonance and dissonance /
- 31 Names of months in the old lunar calendar /
Word tinkering
- 1026 Google considered harmful /
- 905 OpenAI just proved translators were right /
- 904 Toronto’s mayoral election and Wikipedia’s blatant bias /
- 682 God Save the Queen /
- 483 Research paper showing inaccuracy of Google Translate shows instead neither designers nor translators are valued /
- 185 untitled /
- 138 Darn it! /
- 98 The lines I selected from my notes /
- 35 Can we stop using the term wuxia? /
- 28 So exactly how many days are in the New Year? /
- 24 Happy (Chinese? Lunar?) New Year /
- 15 Both W3C and Chicago are wrong about “Chinese” names /
- 6 Hide-and-seek /
- 1bis Kung hei fat choy /
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