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Been thinking a lot about metadata ontologies the past few days. For fonts, specifically. In case you were wondering.
If you have specific input on what they ought to involve, please get in touch.
The much-venerated Fontmatrix, for instance, got along with nothing but the built-in contents of OpenTypes's NAME table and a freeform "tags" system. Lots has changed.
No surprise, I suppose: the man knows how to entertain while he delivers a message.
Watching David Simon shred idiots on Twitter is genuinely exciting.
Mozilla should be commended for the "Address Fill" feature in Firefox, because they clearly spent a long time searching for developers who have never seen an address or used a web page before when hiring the team who implemented it.
(and yes, that is a quote from the Khmer chapter of the Unicode specification itself, in case you were wondering.)
"The Unicode model departs from the ordinary way that Khmer is conceived of and taught to
native Khmer speakers. Consequently, the encoding may not be intuitive to a native user of
the Khmer writing system, although it is able to represent Khmer correctly."
Hooray for #standards, amirite?
I am opposed to punching people. Even people you think are terrible people. Even people that everyone in the wolrd uniformly agrees are terrible people. I get all the arguments. I've heard them, I've processed them; I still resolutely believe it's wrong to punch people and to encourage others to punch people.
I do, however, make a single exception for Mitch McConnell. No holds barred.
Who else remembers when Red Hat started a social network? Because it's still in my bookmarks.
In unrelated news… note to self: clean out bookmark folder
Tizen 5.0 was released today, finally answering the question "wait, does Tizen still exist?"
Ha ha ha. Remember a few weeks ago when I was complaining about how complicated Mongolian text rendering is ? Ha ha ha.
Now I have to do Khmer. Words fail me.
Cashier: "…and are you a member of our rewards club?"
Me: Nope.
Cashier: "Oh; is it your first time shopping at our store?"
Me: Nnnnno... I just don't feel like 'belonging' to everything in the world.
Possible conference-talk titles:
"No Documentation? No Problem!"
"Make things worse for new contributors: a step-by-step guide"
Obviously, I'm talking about third parties here, not any of my followees, all of whom are super smart, completely laser-focused, totally erudite, and definitely have a tight backhand serve-return to boot.
I have several shoutdowns/rants prepared to give to any uninformed people whining on social media about the professional practices of the New York Times.
I'm withholding them for the time being, but if someone you know wants an earful about why their personal misconceptions about the responsibilities of journanlism make them sound like a halfwit, they can DM me.
Motivation Level: 0 out of … I dunno some other number who cares anyway
More examples out there, anyone?
Humor context:
The movie "Hot Fuzz" has a sight-gag wherein the weapons locker of the police station is unlocked with the code "999". That's not immediately funny to Americans.
The Simpsons once had a joke wherein Krusty the Clown had been banned from showbusiness in the 1950s for saying the word "pants" on television. That might be slightly funny to Brits, but it's funnier to American audiences.
Argh. Who took a picture of the typography BoF from this year's LGM?
[sidequest: why can I not remember simple things like this]
