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"Latin letters do not hold hands. Arabic letters do.

To understand why every machine since Gutenberg has wrestled this script and mostly lost, you need one structural fact: Arabic is cursive always."

This piece is an exhilarating, eye-opening, outrageous, and very funny tale of the difference between latin letters and Arabic letters, and why printing presses and screen renderers have such a hard time with it.

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

Just posted an article on my blog about things that are happening in the “multiliner” (felt-tipped pen) world. If this is something that interests you:

https://mateuszurbanowicz.com/2026/06/12/multiliner-update/

Rebuilding a pinnacle on Cologne Cathedral!
The pinnacle at the North Tower at 115 meters height made from Obernkirchen sandstone.

For the assembly, the workpieces are connected with internal stainless steel anchors and finally the joints are cast with lead.
First time since the end of the World War Two, the North Tower of the Cologne Cathedral now owns all eight pinnacles again.
@charlie.gee__ #globalmuseum #stonemasonery #heritage #restoration

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Hello all! I lost my steady gig a year ago, projects from my network are running out, and I need a job.

I’ve worked as an iOS dev for 15 years on cool apps like Camera+, but also building and running web and backend systems. Objective-C/Swift, but also TypeScript/next.js, PHP/WordPress, whatever fits the job!

I can work remote globally or locally in Japan (have PR)

Resume, Portfolio, LinkedIn etc are all at https://kalleboo.com/me

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