Portland friends, I’ll be living in PDX for the month of November—my first visit since Open Source Bridge and OSCON 2015. I’d love to reconnect!

We previously launched this for contributors and now have over 2,000 photos featuring non-binary models

Move to Mastodon? I’ve already moved to Stava 🚲

Q: How do we make Spotify relevant for everyone who uses our app? A: Localization! On the blog, two experts walk you through what localization is, how it works at Spotify, and gift you some actionable tips on how to design with global users in mind. spoti.fi/Localization. 🎁

From source-code spoofing to preserving indigenous languages, the The Unicode Consortium team has had another full year, including expanding the number of characters (20 new #emoji!) that appear on billions of devices around the world. blog.unicode.org/2022/12/unicod…

new personal achievements in 2022: - hiked 45 km in a day (28 mi) - biked 172 km in a day (106 mi) - read 72 books in a year

🎉🥳🎊 The 2023 #TransTechSummit is happening this weekend & It’s FREE 50+ LGBTQIA+ Speakers, 50+ Workshops, and employment networking opportunities, no matter what stage you’re at FOR FREE! March 31st- April 3rd and amplify trans voices.

I’ve learned so much about technical SEO from Olya Ianovskaia who has a great series of articles with Search Engine Land searchengineland.com/author/olya-ia…

When confronted with strange localization results caused by unlikely language/country/currency combinations, I recall this gem from RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages

NYC earthquake footage captured on a camera trap that I was testing for future wildlife monitoring, which was triggered by the movement

Calling all developers and designers! Join our webinar, Bidirectional Text (Part 1): The Basics of Bidi on June 25. Gain insights in handling text that flows from right to left and left to right. Reserve your spot now: bit.ly/4anOs0y! #Bidi #TextDirection #Unicode

Anushah Hossain’s talk ANRT_type, A Joint History of Unicode and OpenType: From Design Principles to Implications is online on our website (along with many more contents): anrt-nancy.fr/fr/videos deborah anderson The Unicode Consortium #TheMissingScripts

New Event! Join us for Bidirectional Text (Part 2): Delving into Bidi on August 13, a deeper exploration into the nuances and intricacies of languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu that generally flow right to left. Register now: bit.ly/4fmQ66H. #TextDirection #Unicode

I look forward to joining the Unicode Technology Workshop in two weeks. It’s not too late to register!

"Open access improves the dissemination of science: Insights from Wikipedia" Key result: Wikipedia increasingly relies on OA articles. Relatedly, OA articles have a higher likelihood of being cited in Wikipedia. The effect is particularly strong for highly cited or newly