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New comment by ceedaxp in "Inventing Cyrillic"

ceedaxp — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:42:46 +0000

Most of the extra glyphs are for non-Slavic (Turk languages of Central Asia and Siberia). You see the same (and worse) in Latin Unicode pages — just look at how many variations of vowels 'a', 'i', or 'e' you have, consonants like 'c', 'z', 's'…

New comment by ceedaxp in "Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks"

ceedaxp — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:54:33 +0000

US consumers are too conservative in the way they expect payments to work—checks are still in circulation and “swipe & sign” has barely been put to rest (has it?). Any system like this would require adoption by a few diverse and large-scale retail institutions to make it worthwhile for consumers to use. Or else it would be a mere alternative to “PayPal me”…

New comment by ceedaxp in "A design system for the federal government"

ceedaxp — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 07:38:17 +0000

Having seen a number of different gov websites, I think that gov.uk are the most aesthetically pleasant and UX-focused. I would only say that at times they are excessively verbose, but that is less of a design system fault and more from the "let's protect us from any liabilities and people making totally silly assumptions about what, when, and how we do things" department.