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Unicode s 2025 edition of the Unicode Technology Workshop went well in November. Bigger, better, and we added tutorials to UTW for the first time (like we used to have with the Unicode Conference). Organizing was a smoother ride, although not without some hitches, most notable was Mark Davis having to miss out at the last [ ]
Also a year ago, soon after my interview with Hilary, I joined Steven Loomis and Bridget Chase to talk with Eddie Arrieta, editor of the MultiLingual magazine, for an interview about Unicode, the volunteers behind the organization. Check it out! I loved that MultiLingual recently clipped this story from the episode that I gave from [ ]
Check out my interview with Hilary about the basics of Unicode, the Unicode Consortium, internationalization, and all the things that enable the things you use every day to be translated / localized and work seamlessly in multiple languages: https://hilaryan.substack.com/p/drumroll-interview-with-elango-cheran Here s what she wrote in her post: YOU GUYS. I got to interview a Unicode (+ [ ]
For the non-techies: a rollback or rolling back is undoing an addition to the codebase that you made. Engineers know how to easily do that because it requires engineering tooling that they use on a daily basis. Managers? That s not in their skillset if they aren t technical. What does the future hold for AI? In [ ]
A year ago, I talked to the UMd students who are a part of the on-campus student-run startup incubator, Startup Shell. It was nice to be invited. I had to check with the organizers that what I had to say would be useful because, um my solo startup wasn t lucratively successful okay, so no revenue [ ]
I have been a believer in the magical properties of wool for more than a decade, after finally being observant enough to see what my friend had told me 3 years prior to that. But in the past year, I watched a bunch of Youtube videos about harvesting seaweed/algae to make biodegradable plastics. One video [ ]
Okay, another post in the tour of skipped over noteworthy things I ve been a part of. Previously, I wrote about writing programs in other human languages (among other things). Here, I m talking about the talk Tim and I gave last year at Clojure/conj 2023, which is about transpiling a program from one programming language to [ ]
I ve accidentally skipped writing here about things that I ve done here and there. It s easy to to not follow up after someone puts up a post or a video that is easy to point to, in the thought that the content speaks for itself. But in reality, there s usually more to say. Often times, you [ ]
My teammate Craig got me to watch the interview with Lily Gladstone back in November, which was really interesting. I think she is Blackfoot, and you learn about the Blackfoot Nation in addition to hearing about her and her journey. Even though she ended up not winning the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2024 [ ]