computers

“This is not the computer for you”

I find this to be the defining difference between the “devices” (the phone, the tablet, the watch, etc.) and a computer: the computer is a blank slate, it is what you want it to be.

Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation

An overview of what goes into the computer processing of text: I don’t believe there is a single place where it’s all properly written down. I have some explanation for that: while basic text layout is very important for UI, games, and other contexts, a lot of the “professional” needs around text layout are embedded […]