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A failed Bell Labs OS called Plan 9 is hiding inside everything you use

It never became the next Unix, but after using it, I started seeing its fingerprints in places I already use.

Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly

How do you justify Arabic text? It’s a simple question, but—as cataloged in a lengthy interactive post on the blog La Vita ...