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Aesthetic text generators can make ordinary words look cursive, bold, gothic, vaporwave, circled, or decorative. At first glance, this can look like a website is applying different fonts. In many cases, that is not what is happening. Instead, the generator is replacing normal characters with visually similar Unicode characters. Unicode Characters vs CSS Fonts A normal CSS font changes how the same underlying text is displayed. For example: font-family: Georgia, s...

Disclosure The author works at Quillfern, an AI-assisted studio, and the plugin shown here is the studio's, which is a potential conflict of interest. The plugin also has an optional paid tier; this article covers only the free version. This article was written with AI assistance. What I tested A small page in Logseq OG 1.0.0 (the Markdown file-graph app, run on Linux under a virtual display): a nested outline with a link, two task blocks (one TODO, one DONE) and a three-colu...

Many Android apps ask for precise location by default. Google's preview policy names the location button as the recommended minimum for precise location, and it takes effect on 27 January 2027. What Google's preview says The Play Console help page is a preview. It says: "This article previews changes from our April 2026 policy updates." For location, the page says: "We're introducing the location button as the recommended minimum scope for precise location." The effective date is...

An agent patch is not ready for a property suite because a model emitted it. It is ready only when three records exist and play different roles: a provenance note, a fixture digest signed outside the drafter, and a property class that limits what a pass or fail may mean. Miss any one of them and the run should not start. A flake freeze is a later ledger. It cannot repair a missing signature. That admission order is the strategy. The steps below enforce it without treating a cheaper draft, or ...

description: "COCOS 4 went fully open source under MIT in early 2026. I run a Cocos Creator 3.8 mini-game in production — here's my honest call on whether to migrate, and what actually changed." Cross-post note: This is the original article from my blog, Indie Game Lab . Read it there for the properly styled version, or keep reading here — it's identical. TL;DR: I run a Cocos Creator 3.8 WeChat mini-game in production. COCOS 4 — fully open-sourced under MIT in early 2026 — is the...

A messy function should not be rewritten on day one. Lock today's outputs with characterization tests before any edit. The smallest safe change is the edit those tests still accept. This workflow is a proposal with unexecuted examples. It does not report a measured production run. Use the workflow to separate observation from cleanup. Why a wide rewrite fails review A large rewrite hides several behavior changes in one diff. Reviewers then cannot name the line that moved an ou...

When I look for an old note or a screenshot, I often remember what it was about but not a single word in it. ripgrep is instant if you remember the word. That doesn't help when I remember the topic but not the wording, like "the meeting note where we decided to cut the budget" or "that dialog saying the disk was full". So I built anygrep , a CLI that puts notes, PDF pages and images into one local index and searches them by meaning. It runs one model, Google's EmbeddingGemma 2, as an int8 ON...

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