I conduct a study that, amongst other findings, shows that the Covid-19 pandemic did not cause a substantial increase in child sexual exploitation, thereby disproving claims in several peer-reviewed papers and Europol/Interpol reports. Whose paper gets the big red content warning? 😜

arxiv.org/abs/2402.14625

Fixed-width text continues to be a foundational feature for software engineers, system administrators, and data scientists. Yet fixed-width rendering of #Unicode, even if we limit ourselves to Latin characters, symbols, and emoji, is a hot mess. How messy? I wrote demicode to visually answer that question for terminals. As it turns out, very messy. But demicode also shows that a better #Fixed_Width property is entirely within reach.

https://github.com/apparebit/demicode/tree/boss