when I found out bank transactions are cleared by ftp-ing files

How hot dogs are prepared around the world.

Apples on a scale from most tart to most sweet

most “sanskrit” baby names are bad - parents fucked the transliteration - name contradicts its predicted stress pattern in English - it’s just a randomly chosen semi-theological adjective you can write verifiers for all these objectives. so who’s building RLbabynamer?

Today I made a fresh batch of 'masi' (मसि/ مسی) or India ink. This traditional ink is made from lamp black. Here are the steps to make it: Firstly, light an oil (mustard/sesame) lamp with a thick wick & place a small terracotta saucer over the flame to collect the soot. Contd..

When writing, I recommend the 20-20 rule: 20 minutes of writing followed by 20 weeks doing new, unrelated projects you won't finish

I've just heard the terrible news that my friend - and friend of many here - Andrew West, @BabelStone, the incomparably brilliant Sinologist and Tangutologist - passed away suddenly but peacefully on 10th July. Andrew had a heart of the most immense kindness and generosity, and

Kourosh Beigpour is an award-winning graphic artist and type designer from Kermanshah, Iran, now based in Los Angeles. Register for #TypeCon2025 and catch his talk “Nastaʿlīq: The Art of Identity in Iranian Calligraphy” on Friday, August 8th.

Academics will be like, "I can't believe they pay me to read and write" and then not read and write

Peak Derrida content:

I exist because ten thousand strangers made choices they will never know mattered, because my grandmother chose love over fear in 1943, because a bird flapped its wings when my parents were deciding whether to have children, because every breath I take was exhaled by trees

Only a couple of days left to propose a talk or workshop for next year's *two* ATypI conferences, at Stanford University and the University of Sharjah: atypi.org/2025/07/23/aty…

Strange things happen to creativity at dusk and dawn, hence so many writers work in the early morning or late at night. The edges of the day are thin places, the conscious mind is not fully awake and the subconscious can bleed through, Arthur Koestler called it "the marshy shore"

The Vedic accent tutorial is nearly ready. 🕉️ 🪉 Just polishing a few things up and it should launch in a few days (depending on how busy I get, lol).

Are you aware that this site houses the only existing inscription from 1500 BCE, challenging the notion that early Indians didn't use written language? This script acts as a Rosetta Stone for translating the Indus script. Sadly, having endured over 3,500 years, it faces imminent

भारत की ज्ञान परंपरा आज भी इतनी समृद्ध इसलिए है, क्योंकि इसकी नींव मुख्य रूप से इन 4 पिलर्स पर आधारित है…

Digitised Manuscripts का अध्ययन करने के लिए हमें AI जैसी नई टेक्नोलॉजी का उपयोग भी बढ़ाना होगा। इस दिशा में अपने युवा साथियों से मेरा यह विशेष आग्रह…

The Script Encoding Initiative deborah anderson released a post about The Unicode Consortium v17 : sei.berkeley.edu/2025/09/18/the…

The seismometer at T-Mobile Park when Polanco hit the game winning single.