People have been wondering what has to come next after the wizardblogging and clownblogging and whatever and my pitch is medieval monks. Like we can all pretend to be tonsured.
bedtime is a very difficult.
I relate to this dino SO MUCH
That’s exactly how hard it is to go to bed on time!
Behold! My latest Bad Keyboard, the ShiftKeyBoard!
It's got nine buttons, and an 8-way gear shifter. You simply shift into different gears to select which sub-keyboard to use. Surprisingly easy to use, in fact.
Here's the layout I used:
Two more things:
1. the numbers under each gear position image are an implementation detail for the gearshifter I used, which I had on my guide image to help me code it.
2. the funniest thing I discovered is that you have to shift into neutral before reprogramming the keyboard or it wouldn't work right. I kept leaving it in first gear which caused problems, where it would only recognize 1 and 4th gear.
𓂸
phallus
this doesn't render on windows unless next to a non-phallus hieroglyph so here is a version for windows users:
𓀐𓂸
Prev: mobile user here! theres fucking nothing here
It's supposed to look like this:
Prev: How did someone make this??
Unicode, the technical standard describing what text symbols exist in computers¹ and how they are encoded², has a block containing Egyptian Hieroglyphs. And since there exists an Egyptian Hieroglyph depicting a penis³, they included it in the standard. And since most computers follow that standard, they can display a penis.
You can check out unicode characters for example here:
1) There do actually exist different standards describing which characters computers should use and how they should be encoded. These days pretty much everyone uses UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) because when exchanging data between computers or programs everyone must use the same encoding to get readable results.
This also means that unicode must (try to) support pretty much everything any human could ever want to write, which means it includes many things like mathematical symbols, special symbols for just about every language, emoji, combining characters that modify other characters, a variety of spaces, box drawing symbols, control characters for eg. text direction, ...
2) Which is actually somewhat complicated. Unicode assigns each symbol a number, but then the text (sequence of symbols) needs to be converted into a sequence of bytes. This is done via the Unicode Transformation Format, which actually results in different characters needing differently many bytes to store.
Also, certain emoji (flags, anything with skin colors or gender, emoji depicting multiple people) are actually multiple characters that get squished into one symbol when rendered.
3) There actually exist three. The above, a version with cloth (𓂹) and one with emission (𓂺).
Also the unicode standard defines words like character, symbol, glyph, ... to have exact meanings, I used the interchangeably here.
this made me have a complete meltdown with delight as I went from "bwahahaha penis sign lol lmao" to "wait if hieroglyphs are unicode there must be an oryx one" and THERE IS!
look at it! 𓃲
𓃲𓃲𓃲𓃲 <- herd!
and the newborn hartebeest!!! 𓃛
frog! horned viper! CREATURES! I'm so happy! I'm gonna be so insufferable with this!
it's kinda crazy. you can use these like more detailed emojis, or even make whole stories without using a single letter. here's an example:
𓀥 𓁆 𓀕
𓁆 𓀟 𓀣 𓁀
do NOT get into fibre arts!!!! you try one and then all of a sudden you have 10 hobbies and wanna try 10 more
yessss… yes
queer people throwing molotov cocktails is fucking based and should be idealized by just about everyone. it's the next big thing!
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021