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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/114329604321270381">Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 17:02:35 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" title="aral@mastodon.ar.al"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/theme/gnusocialjp/default-avatar-stream.png" width="48" height="48" alt="Aral Balkan" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Aral Balkan</a><div><a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/114321516114976247" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/244325" title="raganwald@social.bau-ha.us">raganwald 🍓</a></li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald">@raganwald</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/@david_megginson">@david_megginson</a> Ooh, I wish I’d read that. My little typographical journey has meandered from a hodgepodge of homebrewed macros (<a href="http://www.breakingthin.gs/2012-07-13-on-practicality.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.breakingthin.gs/2012-07-13-on-practicality.html</a>) to discovering the built-in features on Mac and, on Linux, the compose key (<a href="https://ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical-typing-habits-for-linux/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical-typing-habits-for-linux/</a>) to bringing the compose key to Mac (<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113351694017857830" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113351694017857830</a>). It’s been a fun ride and I’m not now, nor have I ever been, an AI.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4886805#notice-9573148">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-04-13T17:02:35+09:00" title="Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 17:02:35 JST">about 6 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114329604321270381" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.ar.al via ActivityPub">mastodon.ar.al</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114329604321270381">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.breakingthin.gs</div><h5><a href="http://www.breakingthin.gs/2012-07-13-on-practicality.html">On practicality — Breaking Things</a></h5><div></div></header><div>In which I posit that pragmatism and craftsmanship are not mutually exclusive.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: ar.al</div><h5><a href="https://ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical-typing-habits-for-linux/">Typographical typing habits for Linux</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Many of our bad habits date back to the limitations of typewriters.
  Typography lends us the voice that the written word takes away from us. Good typography makes your message accessible and comprehensible and strengthens its intent. Bad typography can have the opposite effect: it can cloud your meaning and give you a raspy voice.
I first started making an effort to write using semantic typographical habits about six years ago.</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com</div><h5><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113351694017857830">Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)</a></h5><div> from <span>Aral Balkan</span></div></header><div>Attached: 1 imageAnd since we’re on the subject of typography, one of the things you might miss from Linux (say, hypothetically, if you decided you’d had enough and were going back from Linux to macOS after six years), might be the all-powerful Compose Key*.Well, fear not, because you can emulate it as Howard Rogers has basically recreated it using DefaultKeyBinding.dict:https://absolutelybaching.com/a-compose-key-for-the-mac/(In Vial, I made my Caps Lock produce a § and mapped it to that.)* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#ComposeKey #macOS</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 17:02:35 JSTAral Balkan
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@raganwald @david_megginson Ooh, I wish I’d read that. My little typographical journey has meandered from a hodgepodge of homebrewed macros (http://www.breakingthin.gs/2012-07-13-on-practicality.html) to discovering the built-in features on Mac and, on Linux, the compose key (https://ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical-typing-habits-for-linux/) to bringing the compose key to Mac (https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113351694017857830). It’s been a fun ride and I’m not now, nor have I ever been, an AI.
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  On practicality — Breaking Things
  In which I posit that pragmatism and craftsmanship are not mutually exclusive.
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  Typographical typing habits for Linux
  Many of our bad habits date back to the limitations of typewriters. Typography lends us the voice that the written word takes away from us. Good typography makes your message accessible and comprehensible and strengthens its intent. Bad typography can have the opposite effect: it can cloud your meaning and give you a raspy voice. I first started making an effort to write using semantic typographical habits about six years ago.
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  Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
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  Attached: 1 image And since we’re on the subject of typography, one of the things you might miss from Linux (say, hypothetically, if you decided you’d had enough and were going back from Linux to macOS after six years), might be the all-powerful Compose Key*. Well, fear not, because you can emulate it as Howard Rogers has basically recreated it using DefaultKeyBinding.dict: https://absolutelybaching.com/a-compose-key-for-the-mac/ (In Vial, I made my Caps Lock produce a § and mapped it to that.) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key #ComposeKey #macOS

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