I had no idea how many tech companies have created their own fonts! https://www.arun.is/blog/custom-typefaces/
(Unique branding, better language coverage, and it may be cheaper than licensing an existing typeface.)
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I find it really interesting how some areas of tech are widely expected to improve radically (e.g. LLMs and smart home tech), others gradually (CPU speed, battery capacity) and others very slowly (e.g. compiler optimisations).
Predicting the future is hard.
Do any tech streamers try new software live? It'd be a really fun way of doing UX testing.
Bril is a cute intermediate language for teaching (think simplified LLVM IR): https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html
The idea of providing a standard JSON format to help students write basic passes is really elegant.