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- 25 Sept 2026The Mojibake library runs on Kandelozaerl.blog blog · 2 min readThe Mojibake library runs its +4,500,000 unit tests on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Haiku, Windows 11, and, of course, WASM. So it’s time to add support for Kandelo. Kandelo is a…Read ↗
- 31 Aug 2026Loneliness in Japanzaerl.blog blog · 1 min readWhen I was 25, I decided to go to Japan to run away from the girl who loved me, but not anymore. The idea was to remain in a Buddhist temple for the rest of my life, sweeping up leaves, but the…Read ↗
- 18 Jul 2026Updating Mojibake to Unicode 18.0.0zaerl.blog blog · 4 min readI’ve updated Mojibake to Unicode 18. The beta period is over, and I don’t think there’s any need to wait for the latest summer fixes. My library generates all the files automatically, so I’m…Read ↗
- 17 Jul 2026Being on Hacker News after years of workzaerl.blog blog · 1 min readLast night, I had the courage to publish the Mojibake C library I’ve worked on for years on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941123 +15 comments and +15 stars on GitHub after one…Read ↗
- 13 Feb 2026AIs are the new computerszaerl.blog blog · 2 min readI’ve heard a lot of parallels: “the advent of AIs is like the advent of X back in the days”. I think that is simply the advent of computers. Do you remember what people were saying about the first…Read ↗
- 22 Jan 2026Don’t hate AIzaerl.blog blog · 1 min readPeople hated books when they first came out. They hated horseless carriages. So any new disruptive technology will take a little while for society to digest it, also to evolve. Matt Mullenweg, 2026…Read ↗
- 12 Jan 2026Prefix compression of thousands of similar stringszaerl.blog blog · 4 min readIn the Mojibake library I use the data of the Unicode standard UnicodeData.txt file. That file is automatically generated and full of similar strings. The aim of Mojibake is to be as small as…Read ↗
- 17 Nov 2025A new BibLaTeX WordPress blockzaerl.blog blog · 1 min readI found that BibLaTeX nowadays supports URLs, Unicode characters, and all the modern stuff. I’ve always been a great LaTeX fan, since my university days. My book had a very complex millimeter-precise…Read ↗
- 14 Nov 2025When a software project needs to stopzaerl.blog blog · 1 min readSome years ago, I was at one of those shops where you can buy useless, but funny, objects that you can forget in one of your desk drawers. There was one hand-made of wood, that kind of pretty, creepy…Read ↗
- 24 Aug 2025It’s Not Wrong that (for HN) “🤦🏼♂️”.length == 36zaerl.blog blog · 1 min readHey! Unintentional clickbait! I am not talking about how a space character has length 36 in Hacker News! If you are coming here from HN the above 🤦🏼♂️ emoji have been replaced with a space! Edit…Read ↗
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