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I had a family member who broke a finger on their prominent hand and used the left-handed Dvorak layout while it healed, getting up to about 40 WPM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout#One-han...


Dvorak left and right have the distinction of being available out of the box on most successful operating systems.

Advice from when I learned Dvorak: post a picture of the keyboard layout at monitor height (I put it on my background) so you can figure out where the characters are without looking down.


The first image in this section shows it is a switch at the bottom of the Parental Controls settings: https://staticmedia.kagi.com/family/parental.png


I made a custom Iosevka build by selecting glyph variants based on Atkison Hyperlegible.

Iosevka: https://typeof.net/Iosevka

"Hypersevka" build plans: https://github.com/jdknezek/Iosevka/blob/jdk/scripts/hyperse...

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/7BZS3Pp https://imgur.com/sudNqWM


Iosevka is absolutely wonderful!

I have my own builds -- not based on AH's glyph choices, but also chosen to minimize glyph ambiguity.

I'll mention another great legible monospace project: 0xProto

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Build: https://github.com/AndydeCleyre/archbuilder_iosevka/releases...

Screenshot Mono: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/k46acrxl297.png

Screenshot Mono with syntax highlighting: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/l4nec9d8lm4.png

Screenshot Proportional: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/6yxkce8p6a7.png

0xProto: https://github.com/0xType/0xProto


I really like the aesthetics of Iosevka, but the glyphs are really narrow - resulting in severe readability problems for me (I'm diagnosed dyslexic).


You can configure your build to be wider than default. In order of increasing width:

- semi-extended

- extended

- extra-extended

- ultra-extended

I think by default the extended variant is included in most builds anyway, if you want to try it.

FWIW here's a sample of my usual build's extended variant: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/b49zcjd53oy.png


I'll add that https://github.com/0xType/0xProto is worth checking out, if you haven't. What mono (and proportional) fonts do you find work best for you?


* MonoLisa was pretty good, minus the cursive. As a late/16yo diagnosis under a British curriculum, I cannot express in words just how hostile cursive is. Its continued use in society is an embarrassment /rant

* Intel Commit.

* I am currently using Maple Mono.


I made a custom build[1] of Iosevka[2] that chooses glyph variants based on Atkison Hyperlegible. I like it a lot and over time prefer it to the other Iosevka stylistic sets.

[1]: https://github.com/jdknezek/Iosevka/blob/jdk/scripts/hyperse...

[2]: https://typeof.net/Iosevka


Since I discovered Iosevka a few years back it has been my daily driver for 80% of the time. I use other fonts from time to time but I always go back to my custom build of Iosevka.

Yours actually looks a bit more readable than mine, gonna check it out your build plan.

Thanks!


Sounds very cool, could you upload a screenshot of it in action?


Here is a screenshot of some sample text in VS Code on Windows: https://imgur.com/7BZS3Pp

And here's an action shot: https://imgur.com/sudNqWM


looks great, thanks!


You might look into Mindbug[1]. It uses a few, very streamlined mechanics. It plays quickly - 3 life, 10 cards. But there is a ton of card variety, and wildly powerful cards, because the mindbug mechanic makes each game self-balancing to a degree.

I believe Garfield also gave creative input during development.

[1]: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/345584/mindbug-first-con...



Oh! Cool somehow I missed that


I made my best attempt at this. I made custom Iosevka[1] builds that use the letter shapes from this font. I call it Hypersevka, and the build plans are available at [2].

[1] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [2] https://github.com/jdknezek/Iosevka/blob/jdk/private-build-p...


Any chance you'd make a derivative font - monospaced or not - that uses different letter heights (i forget the technical term) for dyslexic users?


What are the PTL files in the repository? GitHub doesn't identify the language, and I don't recognize it, either.


That’s the "Patel" programming language used to define Iosevka. See https://github.com/be5invis/PatEL.


Nice. Any chance you can post a screenshot?


Sure! Here are some screenshots (Iosevka customizer then VS Code):

https://imgur.com/a/iLejIfc


Iosevka is delightful once you get used to its density. I use a custom build of Iosevka with cues from Atkison Hyperlegible[1] that works really well even at tiny font sizes.

[1]: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont


There's also a proposal for UUIDv6-8, lexicographically sortable variants.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-peabody-dispatch...


To summarise the differences:

* UUIDv6 - sortable, with a layout matching UUIDv1 for backward compatibility, except the time chunks have been reordered so the uuid sorts chronologically

* UUIDv7 - sortable, based on nanoseconds since the Unix epoch. Simpler layout than UUIDv6 and more flexibility about the number of bits allocated to the time part versus sequence and randomness. The nice aspect here is the uuids sort chronologically even when created by systems using different numbers of time bits.

* UUIDv8 - more flexibility for layout. Should only be used if UUIDv6/7 aren't suitable. Which of course makes them specific to that one application which knows how to encode/decode them.

UUIDv7 is thus the better choice in general.

(I recently wrote Python and C# implementations - https://github.com/stevesimmons/uuid7 and https://github.com/stevesimmons/uuid7-csharp)


I see this pop up from time to time and it looks interesting. Does anyone know if there's actual progress on seeing this get adoption. I don't have any background on how to evaluate or how seriously to take such a draft.... is this draft under serious debate by those that could chose to adopt it or is it just written by someone with high hopes of throwing a draft out there and getting some attention for their idea?


Brad Peabody did the original -00 draft, which was discussed as an FYI at an IEFT meeting in March 2020. See [1], around 50 lines from the bottom.

Kyzer Davis has since submitted two further revisions -01 and -02 in April and October 2021. See history in [2].

The current -02 draft is due to expire in April 2022. Presumably Kyzer Davis will try to get it discussed before then.

The GitHub repo tracking these drafts is https://github.com/uuid6/uuid6-ietf-draft/.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/107/materials/minutes-1...

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-peabody-dispatch-new-...


I haven't verified myself, but [1] & comments assert that the client attempts to open a new lobby server connection periodically based on time or byte count, which causes your client to bump into the lobby server limit even mid-queue.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/r9r25a/error_2002_is...


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