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Samuel R. Delaney's on-point 1977 review of Star Wars. (Via Lee Brimmicombe-Wood on FaceBook.)
(Via Samuel Delany's 1977 Star Wars review: why is the future so damned white and male?)
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People browsing Twitter with a screen reader get emojis and ASCII art read out to them verbatim which means the latter is a frustrating experience at best and entirely fails at communication. Jacques Favreau was sufficiently annoyed to make a Twitter bot that reads out tweets to show you what you’re saying to blind readers.
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Elfreth is a “casual blackletter” that makes me wish I were art designing for a metal band so I could use it for all their posters.
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Epilogue to 2001: A Space Odyssey by Steve Begg
(Via 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Frank Poole Epilogue)
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Ad companies want to track your location so as to better manipulate you, and will stoop to some fairly underhanded tactics when thwarted by privacy enhancements in the browser.
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Twitter thread of old-timey computers with absurdly small screens back when screens were impressively expensive.
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Obviously is a warm and workmanlike sanserif typeface family with a ridiculous 96 styles. Here’s James Edmondson describing the journey to completing this mammoth task.
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Offset-based pagination get inefficient for large offsets; seek-based pagination makes the link to the next page cheap at the expense of having no easy route to previous pages.
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Some emoji are actually a sequence of base character and modifiers and if text editors delete the modifiers one by one it produces a more generic emoji, with variously confusing or problematic results.
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