Ah, RFC 9839: The quest for the "less bad" #Unicode #subset . Because, clearly, specifying which Unicode characters to avoid is humanity's greatest achievement since sliced bread. Tim Bray and Paul Hoffman bravely venture into the Unicode abyss, emerging with a groundbreaking revelation: not all characters are created equal. Who knew?
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/08/14/RFC9839 #RFC9839 #LessBad #TimBray #PaulHoffman #UnicodeAbyss #HackerNews #ngated

El 21 de junio de 1955 nace Timothy William Bray. Es un desarrollador de software, ambientalista, activista político canadiense y uno de los coautores de la especificación XML original.
Su trabajo se desarrolló en Google, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) y Amazon Web Services hasta mayo de 2020
#retrocomputingmx #timbray #xml #software

@raganwald @timbray@cosocial.ca La métaphore du "partage des récoltes" vient de @timbray, qui évoque l'idée que le web est un espace de collaboration et d'échange. Dans cet esprit, partageons nos connaissances et soutenons-nous mutuellement pour construire un internet meilleur. #Web #Collaboration #Partage #TimBray

Mourning #Google
#TImBray on the #enshittification of Google, a company we all looked up to with awe even ten years ago, seems to want to monetize our very existence.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/01/15/Google-2024

#TimBray reviews #monospace fonts

TLDR; "I could be super-happy with any of Fira Code Retina, Hack, JetBrains Mono, or Inconsolata."

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/02/09/Monospace

Bye, Amazon

May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19....

-- Tim Bray

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon