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Shavian
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English Needs the Shavian Alphabet
Everyone who tells the story of the Shavian Alphabet retells the story of the Shaw Will and alphabet competition. It’s a lot like filming a new Batman movie: the theater, a boy and his parents, a dark alleyway, a gun, and pearls raining to the ground. They’re both dramatic. What the Shaw story doesn’t ever…
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Shcrabble
I should say upfront that I neither enjoy nor am particularly good at Scrabble — and I suspect those two facts are not entirely unrelated. None of which stopped me from spending yesterday building Shcrabble, an online, real-time multiplayer Scrabble game played entirely in the Shavian alphabet, in a single sitting with Claude Code. It’s…
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On how to behave on the web
Their are a couple of dysfunctional characters in the shavian community. They are absolutely brilliant people, super creative. They are authorities on the subject, and they deserve a lot of respect. They could act as role models and mentors for all newcomers to our little community. They should, but they don’t.
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New Gear Day
Giving Shavian a little bit of a break, I have returned my focus to recording + producing music. I recently invested in some rather yummy new bits of gear, one of which is an eight channel pre-amp by Solid State Logic, the SSL PureDrive Octo 8.
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Bernie Sans
As you may or may not have noticed, I just updated my blog to use my own new typeface: Bernie Sans. It is in the final stretches of development, but I’m pretty excited to share it with you all!
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On typography
I had a very productive spell of delivering new tools for writing and reading Shavian. I even started a blog. And then I went silent for a spell, at least from your perspective… in reality I have been going down a number of rabbit-holes.
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On learning Shavian
I first learned about Shavian from that fantastic Robs words Youtube video, back in early september of 2024, my curiosity was piqued, and the next day, I wanted to learn more, so I found a website where I could learn the letters. To my delight, the letters made sense to me, and I memorised them…
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Shaw-Spell web UI
I’ve been tinkering away on Shaw-Spell, improving the way lemmas, forms and word senses are grouped in the dictionary. But a more interesting change is perhaps the web UI I created for the dictionary this weekend. It was a fairly straightforward adaptation of the macOS one: an intermediate form of the dictionary was already an…
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Shaw-Spell
Tl;dr:I have created native Shavian spell-checking and dictionary services for macOS, now available here! As you will have gathered from my writings here and on Reddit, I’ve been tinkering away on some tools for the Shavian alphabet: The two tools I found were missing from the arsenal were a dictionary and a spell checker. Well,…
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Shaw Type
Having gotten more and more serious about Shavian of late, I found myself wanting to practice typing using my favourite Shavian keyboard layout. I couldn’t find a tool, so I tasked Claude code with building one for me. The results are here: Shaw-type. I am already seeing the benefits of practicing with it: I am…