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https://thegraph.com Announcement: https://twitter.com/graphprotocol/status/1339616737881280512 The Graph is an indexing protocol for organizing blockchain data. Developers can eff…

Braille has many of the same properties, and it could be worthwhile to train yourself to read it visually. If you went down that path, though, I think you'd get to a point where yo…

The terminal is tricky, due to the monospace aspect. It degrades readability when the spaces between the words are as skinny as the letters, but that's what a requirement of a mono…

I tried that, as well as with color variations. The problem that arises is when you view them at small or even medium font sizes, a black dot next to a red or gray dot just looks l…

I like your mapping just about as well as the Dotsies mapping. Slightly more speckled vs angular. I wish others who are finding fault with the mapping would go down this path as we…

> But then chinese websites have very small fonts as well Right you are. It took me a while to be able to shrink it down. You have to start large and gradually shrink it down. > If…

I added several characters to the Dotsies font for other languages in response to requests. They have accents above the dots.

> It doesn't really make sense to optimize for screen space like this. However, the teaching style along with a symbol alphabet that IS trying to solve for better legibility ... Op…

> There is probably a way to come up with dot positions that yield much nicer looking shapes. Try it yourself! http://dotsies.org/design-your-own Hit the "random" link a few times …

Grids of dots can be slightly morphed to resemble curves and slashes. Notice how some of the morphed versions of Dotsies appear visually similar to Asian scripts: http://dotsies.or…

Part of my motivation with Dotsies was to capture the compactness and visual distinctness of Asian characters, while still keeping what's good about alphabets. I'm guessing native …

Dotsies words look kind of like letters. They have lines, corners, loops, etc. > There's going to be a high degree of uncertainty. A dot, and another dot 1 pixel higher or lower is…

I appreciate the support :) Creator of Dotsies here. I've been using Dotsies to read books since 2012 (maybe around 100). At first on a Kindle and then on a Kobo after Amazon stopp…

The Changelog. The topics are pretty diverse, with an emphasis on open source. I find myself listening to about half of them. Also Technotopia from John Biggs, about "a better futu…

Btw reach out to me at @xiki on twitter if you're looking for a place...

What's the best way to find techy/startup people looking to rent a room? I've tried the usual suspects (craigslist, etc.). There was an "A-List" meetup by ApartmentList but it look…

After some pretty brutal feedback about my video last week, this is my Hacker News focused version. It gets right to the point.

1. Currently supports Aquamacs and Emacs. "Xiki-enabled text editor" means a text editor with a Xiki plugin installed. Which, in turn, means you can run Xiki commands right from th…