Damian Cugley @pdc@octodon.social

Checklist for programmers working on almost any web site that processes peoples’ names, even if it is just in the login & profile sections. The upshot of this is most of the clever ideas you might have for parsing and making deductions from a person’s name are probably not generally useful and should not be attempted!

#checklist #peopleNames #programming

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

English spelling dictionaries in the format used by the built-in spell-check on macOS, amongst other things. Unlike the built-in dictionaries it permits all the spellings supported by the OED, including ‘Oxford’ or ‘world english’ spellings like ‘organize’ and ‘realize’.

#OxfordSpelling #spelling

https://github.com/marcoagpinto/aoo-mozilla-en-dict
via https://alleged.org.uk/pdc/2019/01/09.html

Naming authors, and processing people names in general, is a tricky subject. Here is a note on just some of the variability an internationalized application that handles names must take in to account.

#metadata #peopleNames #programming

https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/name-representation/

Arial is a knock-off of designers’ favourite Helvetica which is ubiquitous because bundled with Microsoft Windows. Here’s a detailed history & critique by Mark Simonson

#Arial #typeDesign

https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/the-scourge-of-arial

Red bean: a zip file of web pages bundled into an Actually Portable Executable file that will run as a web server on any modern x64-based computer—Linux, macOS, or Windows. It can serve millions of static pages a second on quite ordinary hardware.

#webServer

https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html

Justine Tunney’s Cosmopolitan Libc ‘makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn't need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable.’

#C #CProgrammingLanguage #deployment #programming

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
via https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1365487401812987904

Put on my coat and gloves, set off for my morning bike ride. Was about 100 metres down Rymers Lane when I suddenly thought ‘Oh no! Forgot my mask!’

Then I realized I was wearing my mask & had forgotten I was wearing it.

Whimsical 1959 Japanese animated short about a cat making a film with mice actors in a super-automated film studio.

#animation #anime #automation #Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EudgkAMJVss
via https://twitter.com/tinybirbsakuga/status/1331283529360166917

The new identity system for financial firm Robinhood includes commissioning these wonderful illustrations on the theme of the future in the style of French science fiction comics.

#bandesDesinées #BrandNew #illustration #solarpunk

https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_logo_and_identity_for_robinhood_by_collins.php

Slides & notes from a talk by Simon Willison mostly on his projects Datasette and Dogsheep aimed at streamlining the process of aggregating and publishing datasets and searching one’s personal data.

#data #Datasette #Dogsheep #Python #SimonWillison #SQLite

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehouses/

Australian National anthem, Advance Australia Fair, has again been tweaked by the Prime Minister to better represent modern Australia.

#Australia #BBC

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55494542

What if everything on the Internet were real? Blog comic by Boulet

#Boulet #comic

http://english.bouletcorp.com/2015/10/21/i-want-to-believe/