Author: Joro
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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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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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𐑪𐑯 𐑣𐑬 𐑑 𐑚𐑦𐑣𐑱𐑝 𐑪𐑯 𐑞 𐑢𐑧𐑚
𐑞𐑺 𐑸 𐑩 𐑒𐑳𐑐𐑩𐑤 𐑝 𐑛𐑦𐑕𐑓𐑳𐑙𐑒𐑖𐑩𐑯𐑩𐑤 𐑒𐑨𐑮𐑩𐑒𐑑𐑼𐑟 𐑦𐑯 𐑞 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑒𐑩𐑥𐑿𐑯𐑦𐑑𐑦. 𐑞𐑱 𐑸 𐑨𐑚𐑕𐑩𐑤𐑵𐑑𐑤𐑦 𐑚𐑮𐑦𐑤𐑾𐑯𐑑 𐑐𐑰𐑐𐑩𐑤, 𐑕𐑵𐑐𐑼 𐑒𐑮𐑦𐑱𐑑𐑦𐑝. 𐑞𐑱 𐑸 𐑷𐑔𐑪𐑮𐑦𐑑𐑦𐑟 𐑪𐑯 𐑞 𐑕𐑳𐑚𐑡𐑧𐑒𐑑, 𐑯 𐑞𐑱 𐑛𐑦𐑟𐑻𐑝 𐑩 𐑤𐑪𐑑 𐑝 𐑮𐑦𐑕𐑐𐑧𐑒𐑑. 𐑞𐑱 𐑒𐑫𐑛 𐑨𐑒𐑑 𐑨𐑟 𐑮𐑴𐑤 𐑥𐑪𐑛𐑩𐑤𐑟 𐑯 𐑥𐑧𐑯𐑑𐑹𐑟 𐑓 𐑷𐑤 𐑯𐑿𐑒𐑳𐑥𐑼𐑟 𐑑 𐑬𐑼 𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑤 𐑒𐑩𐑥𐑿𐑯𐑦𐑑𐑦. 𐑞𐑱 𐑖𐑫𐑛, 𐑚𐑳𐑑 𐑞𐑱 𐑛𐑴𐑯𐑑.
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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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𐑪𐑯 𐑣𐑲𐑓𐑩𐑯𐑱𐑖𐑩𐑯
𐑦𐑑 𐑢𐑪𐑟𐑩𐑯𐑑 𐑩𐑯𐑑𐑦𐑤 𐑞 𐑳𐑞𐑼 𐑢𐑰𐑒 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑲 𐑚𐑦𐑜𐑨𐑯 𐑑 𐑯𐑴𐑑𐑦𐑕 𐑦𐑑. 𐑥𐑲 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑰-𐑚𐑫𐑒𐑕 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑢𐑻𐑯𐑑 𐑤𐑫𐑒𐑦𐑙 𐑨𐑟 𐑜𐑫𐑛 𐑨𐑟 𐑥𐑲 𐑮𐑴𐑥𐑩𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑 𐑚𐑫𐑒𐑕 𐑢𐑻, 𐑯 𐑥𐑲 𐑑𐑮𐑨𐑯𐑟𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑼𐑱𐑑𐑩𐑛 𐑯𐑿𐑟𐑐𐑱𐑐𐑼 𐑸𐑑𐑦𐑒𐑩𐑤𐑟 𐑛𐑦𐑛𐑩𐑯𐑑 𐑤𐑫𐑒 𐑨𐑟 𐑕𐑥𐑵𐑞. 𐑨𐑑 𐑓𐑻𐑕𐑑 𐑲 𐑔𐑷𐑑 𐑦𐑑 𐑣𐑨𐑛 𐑑 𐑚𐑰 𐑐𐑫𐑼 𐑒𐑻𐑯𐑦𐑙. 𐑲 𐑑𐑮𐑲𐑛 𐑮𐑦𐑓𐑲𐑯𐑦𐑙 𐑞 𐑒𐑻𐑯𐑦𐑙 𐑓𐑻𐑞𐑼, 𐑯 𐑰𐑝𐑩𐑯 𐑛𐑵𐑦𐑙 𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑩𐑤…
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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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𐑪𐑯 𐑑𐑲𐑐𐑪𐑜𐑮𐑩𐑓𐑦
𐑲 𐑣𐑨𐑛 𐑩 𐑝𐑧𐑮𐑦 𐑐𐑮𐑩𐑛𐑳𐑒𐑑𐑦𐑝 𐑕𐑐𐑧𐑤 𐑝 𐑛𐑦𐑤𐑦𐑝𐑼𐑦𐑙 𐑯𐑿 𐑑𐑵𐑤𐑟 𐑓 𐑮𐑲𐑑𐑦𐑙 𐑯 𐑮𐑰𐑛𐑦𐑙 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯. 𐑲 𐑰𐑝𐑩𐑯 𐑕𐑑𐑸𐑑𐑩𐑛 𐑩 𐑚𐑤𐑪𐑜. 𐑯 𐑞𐑧𐑯 𐑲 𐑢𐑧𐑯𐑑 𐑕𐑲𐑤𐑩𐑯𐑑 𐑓 𐑩 𐑕𐑐𐑧𐑤, 𐑨𐑑 𐑤𐑰𐑕𐑑 𐑓𐑮𐑪𐑥 𐑘𐑹 𐑐𐑼𐑕𐑐𐑧𐑒𐑑𐑦𐑝… 𐑦𐑯 𐑮𐑦𐑨𐑤𐑦𐑑𐑦 𐑲 𐑣𐑨𐑝 𐑚𐑰𐑯 𐑜𐑴𐑦𐑙 𐑛𐑬𐑯 𐑩 𐑯𐑳𐑥𐑚𐑼 𐑝 𐑮𐑨𐑚𐑦𐑑-𐑣𐑴𐑤𐑟. 𐑲 𐑔𐑷𐑑 𐑲 𐑢𐑫𐑛 𐑥𐑱𐑚𐑰 𐑒𐑳𐑥 𐑳𐑐 𐑓 𐑺 𐑓 𐑩…