Programming Leftovers
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Why does "👩🏾🌾" have a length of 7 in JavaScript?
In short: 👩🏾🌾 is made of 1 grapheme cluster, 4 scalars, and 7 UTF-16 code units. That's why its length is 7.
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Why Check File Size Output for Different Methods?
When working with data, it is important to be aware of the file size of the data you are working with.
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Showing women proportion of Parliamentarians on a map by @ellis2013nz
In a workshop session on data visualization earlier this week, Christophe Bontemps of the Statistical Institute for Asia and Pacific (SIAP) used as an example a range of infographics attempting to show, on a map of Asia and the Pacific...
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I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023
There are 2 “why”s to answer here.
The first is why I am writing this blog post. I noticed that the reason I got an influx of follows is because the Rust Conference program was released, and it has my twitter on it. Sure enough a bunch of people (especially Rust-related and ones with the typical calling of the programming language, the sacred “🦀”!) followed my socials. I was also told congratulations by a few close friends who saw it and were paying attention (again, thank you!). If I have to individually explain the reasoning and behavior that is going on here to each person, my fingers will quite literally fall off and I absolutely do not want to waste everyone’s time by giving partial retellings over and over and over and over again.
The second reason is a lot weirder than I had anticipated or thought about, and has to do with how this happened and the strange behavior coming from the Rust Project about this. But first, a little background.