Amazon moving to a serial number verification program to deter fakes:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/04/amazon-to-give-power-to-brands-to-delete-fakes-from-website
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Delighted to see that Typescript 7 is moving to conventional LSP for its IDE services!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/progress-on-typescript-7-december-2025/#resetting-language-service-issues
In LSP, a position is represented as a line number and a column offset (in Unicode code units): https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#position
This is pretty elegant. You'll get the correct line regardless of encoding bugs, and the editor already knows the line number so it's cheap to compute.
@krinkle A surprising number of PL design workarounds are "just add another equals sign" 🙃