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Temporarily embarrassed billionaire.

This is really interesting to see: https://primarium.info/

A few years ago, I tried to re-learn cursive (VA, to be precise: https://primarium.info/handwriting-models/vereinfachte-ausgangsschrift-va/) from a primary-education book. I didn't succeed. Now I'm wondering if I just haven't found "my" cursive yet.

Primarium

Handwriting Education in primary Schools

Primarium
@the_gneech Perfectly mirrors the joke that "Japan has been living in the year 2000 since 1980"

The first two bytes of many .zip files (and .cbz files are really just .zips) are 0x50 4B, which in ASCII forms the initials PK, for "Phil Katz". Katz was founder of PKWare and designed the zip format together with Gary Conway in 1989.

Katz passed away in 2000 at just 37, due to complications from chronic alcoholism.

The final episode of a documentary called "BBS: The Documentary" seems to be about him in parts. And it's very clear that I need to watch the whole thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS:_The_Documentary

BBS: The Documentary - Wikipedia

I'm reading this multi-volume comic as .cbz's and wanted an easy way to calculate my progress as a percentage across volumes. ... so anyway, here's a thread detailing what I learn about the .zip file format as I go along.
Hey @ashley a few months ago on Twitter I asked you if there were active watch clubs for your HCF syllabus (no 😞)–now I have finally gotten around to starting one! https://discord.gg/T3BDJN6AXz
Join the Halt and Catch Fire Watch Club Discord Server!

Check out the Halt and Catch Fire Watch Club community on Discord - hang out with 5 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Imagine if every minute spent on packaging code for other people to use (e.g. as OSS) was spent on creating quality resources about how that code was written and why it functions the way it does instead. It's all there, out in the open, but instead of `npm install` etc. you have to conciously grab and adapt parts of it, supported by the best help the author could give you. Maybe put transclusion in there somwhere. Look, what I'm saying is that I hate Rust's "Just use a crate!" ethos.
Reading "Thinking With Type" really highlights how .epub is an atrocious format for books. It's obvious that the book wouldn't work at all without intention and control over how it is formatted. And, judging from the Amazon reviews of the Kindle version, it really doesn't.