@literary Do you know anyone else in the industry you could hit up for tips? Suspect social media managers hit that issue a lot!
@larand But umlaut dots as a tiny e makes a ton of sense once you play with Sütterlin a bit.
// @jextxadore @gtwilson
@b123400 git add -p then edit and nuke the profane lines. Sure there's a way to automate that - it's just patch hunk munging…
@bazbt3 All it says on mobile is "back today". But "start a microblog today" leading nowhere is kind of spookily apt. ;)
"We skip straight over the months of questioning what you're doing and sharing your dietary habits with a silent and uncaring universe to deliver you straight to the ultimate microblog experience."
@jextxadore Sounds like this is surplus to requirements now, but FWIW, I do a lot of work writing as Pandoc Markdown and then convert to HTML or PDF (by way of xelatex) for the final delivery. Works a charm, and if you can 10C, you can Markdown. :)
// @nitinkhanna @literary
@nitinkhanna Mostly voice recorders have replaced shorthand, but Commonwealth countries have kept the 100 WPM shorthand certificate as a preference/requirement for journalist employment, and some wrinkles in UK libel law make keeping shorthand notes still useful at times (they're considered as a valid record to resolve he said/she said disagreements about what went on in an interview, IIUC).
The system mostly taught now is Teeline, which is an alphabetic shorthand that probably tops out around 150 WPM (so too slow for court reporting which takes like 200-250 WPM, which drove a lot of shorthand system design before the stenotype). It's pretty quick to learn, and basing it in regular letterforms (even if it's a stretch in places!) makes it easy to start with. Then you just learn a lot of shortcuts and hammer on drills till you pass your certification.
I did my usual thing of geeking out on systems and the design space without really mastering any of them. I do (still, after months without any practice) sneak in some Gregg Shorthand prepositions and adverbs in my notes at work because they are so quick and easy to write and very easy to read back. "For", "of", and "today" are the most common in my use.
// @sumudu @hazardwarning @larand @literary
My brother closed on a house in Texas. My parting remarks were, "Hey, you're a property owner now! That means you'll still be able to vote when they roll back suffrage!"
@schmidt_fu I keep finding myself doing sales, estimates, and audits a lot lately. Shorter periods than full projects, so works with my impending departure. It's good practice for dropping jargon when it doesn't need to be there.
@nitinkhanna Shorthand is a vanishing art with a long history. :)
There's also a keyboardified version called stenotype (with some less-known friends in the UK's Palantype and NL's Velotype) that lives on for court reporting and real-time captioning even now - check out openstenoproject.org for free software and learning materials for that.
// @sumudu @hazardwarning @larand @literary