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🖥 A curated list of bookmarks, tools, tutorials, and other cool resources for text-based game developers.

The Consent Layer: Using ligatures to make web text expensive to scrape without asking

ShieldFont is an open-source creative technology project that offers a practical opt-out from unauthorized AI training and disrupts what is collected when that choice is ignored. It swaps 45.8% of content words (around 24.4% of all words) in a page's source code for other (partially) random words, while the font restores the original text on screen. Readers see the work as intended; mass scrapers collect an altered version. In testing, shielding caused over 90% of pages that would otherwise pass the quality filter to be rejected, keeping them out of the training pipeline. Of those that still passed, 19.4% of all words conveyed false meaning, adding noise to unauthorized AI training datasets. This paper's goal is to walk newcomers through the whole process, in plain language and in order: the project's rationale, how it was built, the results, how to deploy it, and where to contribute.

Markdown | Codecademy

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor.

The Beauty of Finished Software

Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s.

Plaintext Productivity | Introduction

The Plaintext Productivity system is a smart way to get organized on Windows, using plaintext files as your trusted system and great software to make it easy.

Tokenization: A Survey for Modern NLP

While modern language models take raw text as their input and produce raw text as output, they do not operate over text directly. Hidden in the very first step of language model pipelines is...

Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World – Pixelambacht

Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness

twinkleplop — plop some twinkle in your code

A syntax highlighter and code authoring toolkit. Small, fast, customisable.

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

This post was discussed in Lobsters and HackerNews

Coding Is Dead, Long Live Programming — Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals

Summary In this post, we argue that the role of a coder now belongs to a coding agent, but that the distinct role of a programmer define...

Lexicon Embeds Overview

There’s an excellent discussion and thread about syntax highlighting of code blocks happening today: I think most notably there’s some alignment around using a lexicon to represent code blocks (say Tangled’s strings) and embedding those, rather than just doing syntax highlighting w/in the constraints of a bsky post. This seems like a good place to hammer a bunch of things out.

Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software

Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications

Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML

Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to request from Claude. The article is crammed with …

Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML

Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to request from Claude. The article is crammed with …