Category: Shavian

  • Shcrabble

    Shcrabble

    I should say upfront that I neither enjoy nor am particularly good at Scrabble โ€” 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…

  • ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฃ๐‘ฌ ๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘ฆยญ๐‘ฃ๐‘ฑ๐‘ ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž ๐‘ข๐‘ง๐‘š

    ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฃ๐‘ฌ ๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘ฆยญ๐‘ฃ๐‘ฑ๐‘ ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž ๐‘ข๐‘ง๐‘š

    ๐‘ž๐‘บ ๐‘ธ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘’๐‘ณยญ๐‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ค ๐‘ ๐‘›๐‘ฆยญ๐‘•๐‘“๐‘ณ๐‘™๐‘’ยญ๐‘–๐‘ฉยญ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฉ๐‘ค ๐‘’๐‘จยญ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฉ๐‘’ยญ๐‘‘๐‘ผ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž ๐‘–๐‘ฑยญ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘’๐‘ฉยญ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฟยญ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฆยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ. ๐‘ž๐‘ฑ ๐‘ธ ๐‘จ๐‘šยญ๐‘•๐‘ฉยญ๐‘ค๐‘ต๐‘‘ยญ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ ๐‘š๐‘ฎ๐‘ฆยญ๐‘ค๐‘พ๐‘ฏ๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฐ๐‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ค, ๐‘•๐‘ต๐‘๐‘ผ ๐‘’๐‘ฎ๐‘ฆยญ๐‘ฑยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘. ๐‘ž๐‘ฑ ๐‘ธ ๐‘ท๐‘”๐‘ช๐‘ฎ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž ๐‘•๐‘ณ๐‘š๐‘ก๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘‘, ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž๐‘ฑ ๐‘›๐‘ฆยญ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ป๐‘ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ค๐‘ช๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฆยญ๐‘•๐‘๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘‘. ๐‘ž๐‘ฑ ๐‘’๐‘ซ๐‘› ๐‘จ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘จ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ด๐‘ค ๐‘ฅ๐‘ช๐‘›๐‘ฉ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ง๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘น๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“ ๐‘ท๐‘ค ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฟยญ๐‘’๐‘ณยญ๐‘ฅ๐‘ผ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฌ๐‘ผ ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ค ๐‘’๐‘ฉ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฟ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ. ๐‘ž๐‘ฑ ๐‘–๐‘ซ๐‘›, ๐‘š๐‘ณ๐‘‘ ๐‘ž๐‘ฑ ๐‘›๐‘ด๐‘ฏ๐‘‘.

  • ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฃ๐‘ฒ๐‘“ยญ๐‘ฉยญ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฑ๐‘–ยญ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ

    ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฃ๐‘ฒ๐‘“ยญ๐‘ฉยญ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฑ๐‘–ยญ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ

    ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ชยญ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘ค ๐‘ž ๐‘ณ๐‘ž๐‘ผ ๐‘ข๐‘ฐ๐‘’ ๐‘ž๐‘จ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘š๐‘ฆยญ๐‘œ๐‘จ๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ดยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘• ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘. ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘–๐‘ฑยญ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฐ-๐‘š๐‘ซ๐‘’๐‘• ๐‘ก๐‘ณ๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘ซยญ๐‘’๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘จ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘ซ๐‘› ๐‘จ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ดยญ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ ๐‘จ๐‘คยญ๐‘“๐‘ฉยญ๐‘š๐‘ง๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘ซ๐‘’๐‘• ๐‘ข๐‘ป, ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘‘๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฏ๐‘Ÿยญ๐‘ค๐‘ฆยญ๐‘‘๐‘ผยญ๐‘ฑยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘› ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฟ๐‘Ÿยญ๐‘๐‘ฑยญ๐‘๐‘ผ ๐‘ธยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆยญ๐‘’๐‘ฉ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ ๐‘›๐‘ฆยญ๐‘›๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘ซ๐‘’ ๐‘จ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘•๐‘ฅ๐‘ต๐‘ž. ๐‘จ๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘ป๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘”๐‘ท๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฃ๐‘จ๐‘› ๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘ฐ ๐‘๐‘ซ๐‘ผ ๐‘’๐‘ป๐‘ฏยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘™. ๐‘ฒ ๐‘‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘› ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฆยญ๐‘“๐‘ฒยญ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ž ๐‘’๐‘ป๐‘ฏยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘“๐‘ป๐‘ž๐‘ผ, ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฐ๐‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ ๐‘›๐‘ต๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ค๐‘ฆยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ค…

  • Bernie Sans

    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!

  • ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘๐‘ฒ๐‘๐‘ช๐‘œ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฉ๐‘“๐‘ฆ

    ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘๐‘ฒ๐‘๐‘ช๐‘œ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฉ๐‘“๐‘ฆ

    ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฃ๐‘จ๐‘› ๐‘ฉ ๐‘๐‘ง๐‘ฎ๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ฉ๐‘›๐‘ณ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘ ๐‘•๐‘๐‘ง๐‘ค ๐‘ ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ๐‘๐‘ผ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฟ ๐‘‘๐‘ต๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ. ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฐ๐‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ ๐‘•๐‘‘๐‘ธ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘› ๐‘ฉ ๐‘š๐‘ค๐‘ช๐‘œ.ย  ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž๐‘ง๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ข๐‘ง๐‘ฏ๐‘‘ ๐‘•๐‘ฒ๐‘ค๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ๐‘‘ ๐‘“ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘•๐‘๐‘ง๐‘ค, ๐‘จ๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘ฐ๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘ฎ๐‘ช๐‘ฅ ๐‘˜๐‘น ๐‘๐‘ผ๐‘•๐‘๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘โ€ฆ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฆ๐‘จ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฃ๐‘จ๐‘ ๐‘š๐‘ฐ๐‘ฏ ๐‘œ๐‘ด๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘›๐‘ฌ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ณ๐‘ฅ๐‘š๐‘ผ ๐‘ ๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘š๐‘ฆ๐‘‘-๐‘ฃ๐‘ด๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ.ย  ๐‘ฒ ๐‘”๐‘ท๐‘‘ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ข๐‘ซ๐‘› ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฑ๐‘š๐‘ฐ ๐‘’๐‘ณ๐‘ฅ ๐‘ณ๐‘ ๐‘“ ๐‘บ ๐‘“ ๐‘ฉ…

  • ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ค๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ

    ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ค๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ

    ๐‘ฒ ๐‘“๐‘ป๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘ป๐‘ฏ๐‘› ๐‘ฉ๐‘š๐‘ฌ๐‘‘ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑยญ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘“๐‘ฎ๐‘ช๐‘ฅ ๐‘ž๐‘จ๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘จ๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘จ๐‘•๐‘‘ยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘’ ยท๐‘ฎ๐‘ช๐‘š๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ข๐‘ป๐‘›๐‘Ÿ ยท๐‘ฟ๐‘‘๐‘ฟ๐‘š ๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘›ยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘ด, ๐‘š๐‘จ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ป๐‘ค๐‘ฆ ๐‘•๐‘ง๐‘ยญ๐‘‘๐‘ง๐‘ฅยญ๐‘š๐‘ผ ๐‘ 2024, ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘’๐‘˜๐‘ซยญ๐‘ผยญ๐‘ฆยญ๐‘ช๐‘•ยญ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ ๐‘ข๐‘ช๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ฐ๐‘’๐‘‘, ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž ๐‘ฏ๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘›๐‘ฑ, ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ข๐‘ช๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘› ๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘ป๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฅ๐‘น, ๐‘•๐‘ด ๐‘ฒ ๐‘“๐‘ฌ๐‘ฏ๐‘› ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ข๐‘ง๐‘šยญ๐‘•๐‘ฒ๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘บ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘’๐‘ซ๐‘› ๐‘ค๐‘ป๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž ๐‘ค๐‘ง๐‘‘ยญ๐‘ผ๐‘Ÿ. ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ ๐‘›๐‘ฆยญ๐‘ค๐‘ฒ๐‘‘, ๐‘ž ๐‘ค๐‘ง๐‘‘ยญ๐‘ผ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฑ๐‘› ๐‘•๐‘ง๐‘ฏ๐‘• ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฐ, ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ง๐‘ฅยญ๐‘ผยญ๐‘ฒ๐‘Ÿ๐‘› ๐‘ž๐‘ง๐‘ฅ…

  • Shaw-Spell web UI

    Shaw-Spell web UI

    Iโ€™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…

  • Shaw-Spell

    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, Iโ€™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,…

  • ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘’๐‘ช๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘ฌ๐‘ฏ๐‘›๐‘Ÿ ๐‘จ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ฉ๐‘—๐‘ผ๐‘Ÿ

    ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘’๐‘ช๐‘ฅ๐‘๐‘ฌ๐‘ฏ๐‘›๐‘Ÿ ๐‘จ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ฉ๐‘—๐‘ผ๐‘Ÿ

    ๐‘จ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ด๐‘œ๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฅ๐‘ผ, ๐‘ฒ ๐‘•๐‘๐‘ง๐‘ฏ๐‘› ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ค๐‘ช๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘‘๐‘ฒ๐‘ฅ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘‘๐‘ง๐‘’๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ๐‘ด๐‘•๐‘๐‘ฑ๐‘• ๐‘“๐‘ช๐‘ฏ๐‘‘๐‘•. ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ข๐‘ง๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘•๐‘ฑ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ค๐‘ช๐‘‘, ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฐ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ค๐‘ช๐‘‘. ๐‘’๐‘ช๐‘ฏ๐‘•๐‘ด๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘๐‘ป๐‘ฅ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ๐‘ฉ๐‘ค๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฟ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ๐‘ด๐‘•๐‘๐‘ฑ๐‘• ๐‘“๐‘ช๐‘ฏ๐‘‘๐‘•. ยท๐‘ฆ๐‘›๐‘ง๐‘Ÿ [IDEs, ๐‘ž ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ด๐‘œ๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฅ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ด๐‘œ๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฅ๐‘ผ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฟ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ด๐‘œ๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฅ๐‘Ÿ] ๐‘ฟ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ๐‘ด๐‘•๐‘๐‘ฑ๐‘• ๐‘“๐‘ช๐‘ฏ๐‘‘๐‘•. ๐‘ฏ ๐‘จ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ด๐‘œ๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฅ๐‘ผ ๐‘ฃ๐‘ต ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘•๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ๐‘‘๐‘ค๐‘ฆ ๐‘ฃ๐‘จ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘‘๐‘ฑ๐‘’๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ค๐‘ช๐‘‘ ๐‘…

  • ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ข๐‘ป๐‘›-๐‘•๐‘ฒ๐‘ฏ๐‘Ÿ

    ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ๐‘ข๐‘ป๐‘›-๐‘•๐‘ฒ๐‘ฏ๐‘Ÿ

    ๐‘ž ๐‘ณ๐‘ž๐‘ผ ๐‘›๐‘ฑ, ๐‘ญ๐‘“๐‘‘๐‘ผ ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏยญ๐‘‘๐‘ผยญ๐‘งยญ๐‘•๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘›๐‘ฆยญ๐‘•๐‘’๐‘ณยญ๐‘–๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ช๐‘ฏ ยท๐‘ฎ๐‘งยญ๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘‘, ๐‘ฒ ๐‘“๐‘ฌ๐‘ฏ๐‘› ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒยญ๐‘•๐‘ง๐‘ค๐‘“ ๐‘œ๐‘ด๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘จ๐‘’ ๐‘‘ ๐‘ž ๐‘•๐‘น๐‘•, ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ-๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐยญ๐‘›๐‘ฉ๐‘™ ยท๐‘๐‘ฐ๐‘‘๐‘ผ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฉยญ๐‘’๐‘ธยญ๐‘”๐‘ฆ ๐‘ฏ ยท๐‘’๐‘ฆ๐‘™๐‘Ÿ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘›๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘™๐‘Ÿ ๐‘“๐‘ฎ๐‘ช๐‘ฅ ยท๐‘จ๐‘ฏยญ๐‘›๐‘ฎ๐‘ฉยญ๐‘’๐‘ค๐‘ฐ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ž ๐‘ค๐‘ฒ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ, ๐‘ฏ ยท๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘›๐‘Ÿ ยท๐‘œ๐‘ฒ๐‘› ๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ฑยญ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘•๐‘๐‘งยญ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘“๐‘ฎ๐‘ช๐‘ฅ 1963. ๐‘ฒ ๐‘’๐‘ฑ๐‘ฅ ๐‘ฉยญ๐‘’๐‘ฎ๐‘ช๐‘• ๐‘ฉ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ณ๐‘ฅยญ๐‘š๐‘ผ ๐‘ ๐‘”๐‘ฆ๐‘™๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฒ ๐‘ฃ๐‘จ๐‘› ๐‘ฐ๐‘ž๐‘ผ ๐‘‘๐‘ดยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ ๐‘“๐‘ผ๐‘œยญ๐‘ชยญ๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฉ๐‘š๐‘ฌ๐‘‘, ๐‘น ๐‘ก๐‘ณ๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘ฃ๐‘จยญ๐‘›๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฎ๐‘พ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ…