Bidi – What You See isn't What You Get
I stumbled across the problem of bidirectional text in terminals while trying to test a variant of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. The Unicode consortium publishes a set of bidi…
Welcome
This is my coding playground. I don’t spend much daytime on software projects anymore, so what’s here is driven by curiosity, especially about digital typography and parsers.
Typography
I have a lifelong interest in typography and book design. The Go-language is lacking in terms of typographic support and I try to improve on this.
Grammars and Parsers
DSLs and all kinds of parsers have been a passion of mine since university. If you share this interest, check out the Go tools here.
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Text processing applications need to segment text into pieces. Segments may be word, sentences, paragraphs and so on. For western languages this is not too hard of a problem,…
Why GoRGO?
Every software developer hates repetitive tasks. What’s the point of being a programmer if you can’t delegate your chores to a machine? And as a backend developer you are…
Parsing MetaPost
These days I spend some evenings programming a variant of MetaPost, a DSL for diagrams and illustrations. MetaPost inherits much of its syntax from MetaFont, which has been designed…
