I'm playing around with visualizing brotli.org decompression:

• yellow+orange+red are dictionary lookups
• cyan are single bytes (Huffman coded)
• gray are slice copies brotli uses a big dictionary of common bits of English text, like "perhaps" or "New Zealand".

it also defines a set of "transforms" to apply on the results of these dictionary lookups, such as "omit the last character and append -ing"

some wise words about letter-writing from lewis carroll (1890) it makes sense, but wow, "forgetting to actually attach the damn file" is an at-least-131-year old blunder

I hear this is relevant once again

https://twitter.com/chordbug/status/1306942567792205824

oh, between writing this and now, I've been asked by someone from Japan, “what do people without IMEs do when they want to type a beta or something (if not type ベータ and then hit space until it becomes β)?”

and my answer was like “well, 🥴🥲”

fun fact: I actually can't read sheet music, at least not without counting the little lines… I transcribe stuff into sheet music because I know it's intuitive to other people, but mostly because I think it's nice and satisfying to look at (especially when there's a little cursor, dancing over the contours of the music)