wow such a clearly written piece about UTF-8

https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/

The US is probably just one bad election away from becoming an autocratic dictatorship. Russia and China are already police states with one-party rule. India seems to be leaning hard in that direction. We're looking at the possibility of an imminent future where all the world's major economies are authoritarian states.

Imagine explaining to someone from the 1940s that our last best hopes for heading off planet-wide fascism are Germany and Japan.

About tools enforcing stricter rules on consumers: I agree to stricter rules.

The "let adults could make adult decisions" does not work, because most developers are (just by nature of averages and medians) way below median quality.

Most adults need to (sadly) be told what to do in basic life details anyway, otherwise we'd all be throwing shit at each other in lunch cafeterias.

The "question everything" mentality is a very post-factual-society way to teach people: spawns terrible people too.

Customer: "I have to warn you, this project had three different developers before you, and they all had different coding styles."

Me: 🤔