CastReader is a free TTS browser extension that solves the problem of reading Kindle Cloud Reader by reverse-engineering Amazon's custom font glyph mappings and using local Tesseract OCR calibration to accurately extract text, with additional support for canvas-based platforms like WeRead through fetch interception and a multi-tier text extraction pipeline.
A detailed historical investigation into the origins and meaning of Unicode character U+237C (⍼), tracing its roots to H. Berthold AG's 1950 symbol catalogue where it was named 'Azimuth' or 'direction angle', with analysis of its visual design representing how a sextant measures azimuth.
A satirical RFC proposing the Human Em Dash (HED) — a Unicode character to distinguish human-authored text from AI-generated content by marking em dashes with a Human Attestation Mark preceding them. The mock standard humorously explores the problem of "Dash Authenticity Collapse" and includes behavioral verification requirements like detecting pauses and backspaces.
Durdraw is a free, open-source ANSI/ASCII/Unicode art editor for Unix-like systems that supports frame-based animation, 256-color mode, and modern terminal features inspired by classic MS-DOS art editors.