6 ms·
Except I literally cannot read it
by andrewjrangel 9y ago
Except I literally cannot read it
- shrimp_emoji 9y agoSame here. :c It's a dead language.
- tachyoff 9y agoYeah, he's doing calligraphy (either Spencerian script or Copperplate, maybe?) for coding, which is absolutely not a good hand for it. I mean, I personally take notes in cursive, but they're typically prosaic (e.g. "Fix the VPN", "Ask Steve about those CSS changes", etc).
- tincholio 9y agoIt's some Spencerian variation, indeed. I can't fathom why he uses that paper format... Those pages are annoyingly narrow! Also, I agree with you, Spencerian (or any other ornate script) is not the best for coding notes.
- scarmig 9y agoWhich script would be best, in your opinion?
- 0xVi 9y agoI do all my coding in gregg shorthand
- tachyoff 9y agoI know this was a joke, but do you by any chance know any shorthand? I tried to teach myself Gregg here and there years ago, but it requires more dedication than I was willing to put in to become fluent.
- lwlml 9y agoGregg is not the way to go if you're looking for a shorthand that captures text in the way you would need for programming or science and I don't know of a good shorthand for this [if it wasn't already APL.] Gregg is very much a "visible" sound system from a time when people just needed to capture the conversations and later expand back into text with the aid of a secretary. That is, if you didn't mutate your shorthand for your own purposes. That being said, Aaron Hsu's handwriting is beautiful, but not my cup of tea for thinking on paper--my initial reaction to his scanned pages was unpleasant because it wasn't what I was used to from my own hands.
- sudosteph 9y agoI know teeline. But programming in it seems pretty silly since half the time you are only differentiating the meaning of words using sentence context. I do like the idea of using it for maybe some very basic terms in psuedocode though (if, for, define, class, etc)
- fsiefken 9y agoperhaps an alphabetic shorthand like keyscript?
- LionRoar 9y agoIn the past, you could program on the C64 in a kind of symbol code. The keys on the C64 had all graphics symbols on them (ascii?) and if you used them while programming in Basic it was possible to use these symbols as a kind of programming shorthand. I don't exactly remember what was what but it was something like using ctrl-F which gave a symbol that would be interpreted as FOR and so forth. If you did a List the full commands were shown. You could expand that idea and create your own shorthand.
- jonnybgood 9y agoIf you’re going to use a script, abbreviated Spencerian would be better. It’s more simple and legible.
- tincholio 9y agoI'd use some italic variation, probably. If you insist on something cursive, some form of business writing would probably be better. Of course, to each their own... (I love penmanship, and I'm fluent in several scripts, but I do my coding in Emacs, thank you very much!)
- yepguy 9y agoDid you not learn cursive in grade school? This looks exceptionally readable to me, and other than the capital letters it doesn't really have any flourishes. And given how practiced his hand looks, I wouldn't be surprised if he was able to write this much quicker in cursive than I could write it in printed letters.
- bitwize 9y agoI learned cursive in grade school (xennial represent) but neither I nor my classmates wrote like this. This is some Declaration of Independence shit right here.
- craigds 9y agoI learned cursive too, but it's still much slower to read than plain old 'normal' lettering. I assume the author would be able to read it just fine. It is gorgeous though.