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Perhaps I should take some bigger examples of my private programming history. Those are often similar or better than my professional projects using these languages. And then AI should rate #style, #readability and #maintainability, perhaps room for optimization without loosing these criteria. The languages here would be #pascal, #perl, #python, #java, #smalltalk, #erlang and #golang. Should be interesting. And beside the different languages I would expect a reflection of my personal experience.

Font choice is crucial for a positive user experience. The right font ensures your content is accessible and easy to read, keeping visitors on your site longer.

Our latest blog post breaks down the 9 best web fonts for readability, including classics like Georgia and modern options like Roboto. Learn why they work and how to choose the best for your project.

Read the guide: silphiumdesign.com/best-web-fo

“Above all, read what you are designing, and imagine reading it for the first time, like someone who just found it.”

The late Dean Allen on designing pages to be read. Includes An Entirely Incomplete List of Things a Non–Illiterate Designer Should Know Before Being a Designer. From A List Apart in November of 2001.

alistapart.com/article/reading #ReadingDesign #typesetting #readability #webdesign #WebDesignHistory

A List Apart · Reading DesignWith so many specialists working so hard at their craft, why are so many pages so hard to read? Unabashed text enthusiast Dean Allen thinks designers would benefit from approaching their work as be…

I'm once again looking for a read-it-later/article archive tool. I think I've tried them all by now and I'm amazed that for such a basic task there's no good solution. I think my demands are very reasonable:

– article content extraction (not just bookmarks) and comfortable reader
– full text search over the entire archive
– website and Android app with synchronization between them
– not a whole lot of random unrelated features like todo lists or whatever thrown in for no reason

I was using Pocket for many years and even paid for the "premium" (which basically got me a few extra fonts because the "premium" features like tag suggestions didn't work), however Pocket got worse and worse at article extraction, to the point where it just opened to website instead of showing the extracted text for more than half of the saved articles. Also no one seems to actively work on it it seems. Pretty much the same problems with Instapaper. I tried Feedly and Inoreader which kinda works I guess but they're primarily RSS readers, which I don't need. raindrop.io does extract article texts but shows them only in the Android app, in a browser it'll still open the website, also the full text search doesn't work reliability. Then there's Wallabag but that seems very Alpha and I don't want to host the service myself. Tried a bunch more which I can't remember right now.

As a temporary solution I'm now saving articles to @notesnook since I'm using that for notes anyway. Article extraction works alright but there's no way to archive notes, so it's all cluttered with articles now and I can barely find my own notes anymore.

If anyone knows of a tool that reliably does all the things mentioned above, please let me know!

📉 Did ChatGPT make scientific texts harder to read? A new study analysed over 2 million abstracts from #arXiv (2010–2024) to track changes in their readability. Using 4 classic #readability metrics, the author found a clear shift: in 2023–2024, abstracts became significantly more complex than ever before.

:doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2025.101

The author is cautious: while the rise in complexity closely aligns with the release of #ChatGPT the study doesn't claim a causal link.

The Braille institute has a free #font specifically designed for #readability. I have been using it for a while (including powerpoint, latex, my blog) and find it useful not only to support those with impaired vision, it is also quite good at separating easy to mix up characters, e.g., i, I, 1, l, or O, 0, which we often use in equations & co:
#Atkinson Hyperlegible
brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
@academicchatter

Braille InstituteAtkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille InstituteRead easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!

"Say what you want about Trump, but he’s known to speak in simple and plain language. Does this make him dumb? I would counter that it makes him accessible.

Does this mean that Sanders and AOC should stop talking about oligarchy? Among their college-educated base, I see no reason why it’s a particularly bad idea. They understand the language and it resonates with them.

There’s also some polling out there from a progressive polling firm showing that most Americans can identify the definition of oligarchy when presented with a multiple-choice question. This isn’t the best polling design in the world, but it’s possible that Sanders and AOC have had some luck in popularizing the term.

But Democrats and progressives need to stop thinking that everyone in America has a college degree and follows every bit of minutiae in the news. Republicans tend to use simpler language, and it’s no surprise that they’ve won the working class’s votes for several elections in a row now. They speak more like ordinary people than Democrats do.

It’s not dumb to not understand every word in the English dictionary. What would be dumb is politicians insisting that we use words that people don’t understand in order to persuade them."

www.theamericansaga.com/p/do-americans-understand-what-bernie

#USA#Bernie#AOC