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On the challenge of writing accurate source spans on Unicode source code: https://reedmullanix.com/posts/unicode-source-spans.html Also (see footnotes) a fair number of LSP clients assume UTF-8 despite early versions of LSP mandating UTF-16!

USB-A connectors seem absolutely massive when the majority of my connectors are USB-C. With hindsight, maybe the original USB standard could have been smaller. USB 1 came out in 1996, way before the modern smartphone, so I assume it was more focused on desktop devices.

It is really hard to find good terminal colours for both light and dark themes. I've replaced uses of 'bright' colours with bold as it seems to work better. git-diff does the same thing. Explicit black and white colours are available, but you can't assume the default colour!