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Shavian
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The Pitman Collection
In early April, I visited the University of Bath to look at section D of the Pitman collection. I took thousands of pictures, and will be semi-regularly adding posts about what I found there.
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Announcing Shave 1.1
Shave 1.1 is out! A new version of the bidirectional Shave transliterator, with an all new E-Book reader, a Shavian web proxy, collaborative editing, support for Custom Fonts, and so much more.
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On the Shave Architecture
Accompanying yesterday’s post announcing Shave I thought it might be interesting for some of you to learn a bit more about what is going on under the hood in the tool. It will come as no surprise that it started out life as a clone of Dave Coffin’s python transliterator. That tool was the best…
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On Shave
I’ve been teasing you all with talk about my own transliteration tool for quite some time. I hadn’t released it, as there were some features I really wanted to have nailed before letting you guys get your hands on it. The wait is over. I just released a web UI for my shave transliterator so…
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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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On hyphenation
It wasn’t until the other week that I began to notice it. My shavian e-books just weren’t looking as good as my roman alphabet books were, and my transliterated newspaper articles didn’t look as smooth. At first I thought it had to be poor kerning. I tried refining the kerning further, and even doing little…
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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!