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My name is Marcin Wichary. I’ve worked as a UX designer, typographer, front-end person, and manager at Google, Medium, and Figma. I’ve also written a book about keyboards and typing, gave talks, and published essays about design, typography, and technology.
Unsung is my blog about software craft and quality.
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A fantastic 37-minute video by Nic Barker that explains ASCII, Unicode codepoints, and their relationship to UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32.
I learned a lot, and I never thought I’d walk away from the video appreciating the craft of text encoding. Also, really good storytelling!
