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  • Redesigning the Taroc

    Redesigning the Taroc

    For many years now, I’ve been picking away at redesigning... Read more »
  • A tribonacci-based substitution tiling

    A tribonacci-based substitution tiling

    I’ve been interested in different ways of tiling the plane... Read more »
  • Rachmaninoff “Les Larmes” rearranged for two hands

    Rachmaninoff “Les Larmes” rearranged for two hands

    Rachmaninoff wrote his “Fantaisie-tableaux” (Suite No. 1 in G Minor,... Read more »
Redesigning the Taroc

Redesigning the Taroc

Occult August 29, 2021
For many years now, I’ve been picking away at redesigning the Taroc (or Tarot, as it’s commonly known today). It’s... Read more »
A tribonacci-based substitution tiling

A tribonacci-based substitution tiling

Tiling June 24, 2020
I’ve been interested in different ways of tiling the plane ever since I read a 1977 Scientific American article on... Read more »
Rachmaninoff “Les Larmes” rearranged for two hands

Rachmaninoff “Les Larmes” rearranged for two hands

Music April 18, 2020
Rachmaninoff wrote his “Fantaisie-tableaux” (Suite No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 5) in 1893 as a series of musical poems... Read more »

Ozone therapy: notes on the infamous German safety study

Ozone therapy April 16, 2020
Many ozone therapy proponents cite a “German study” into the safety of the treatment, which showed an extremely low risk... Read more »

Italian ozone therapy treatments: the question of ISS consent

Ozone therapy April 16, 2020
The SIOOT, the organisation claiming great success in treating COVID-19 with ozone therapy, says it received consent from the Italian... Read more »
COVID-19 Ozone Therapy notes

COVID-19 Ozone Therapy notes

Ozone therapy April 15, 2020
Many hospitals in Italy, Spain and China are now treating COVID-19 with reportedly “excellent”, “spectacular” results. Reports of these treatments... Read more »
Simhash and solving the hamming distance problem: explained

Simhash and solving the hamming distance problem: explained

Algorithms August 6, 2019
Simhashes are a clever means of rapidly finding near-identical documents (or other items) within a large corpus, without having to... Read more »

The Song of Solomon: a frank translation

Bible July 2, 2018
How beautiful are thy nipples, my sister, my bride! Thy breasts are more beautiful than wine, and the scent of... Read more »

Line-spacing: getting it right

Typography November 2, 2015
If you’re a new font designer wondering how to set your OpenType font’s em-height and line-spacing, the advice you’ll find... Read more »

Creating bold weights in FontForge

Typography November 20, 2014
The Coelacanth typeface I’m creating is classic Venetian style, harking back to an age before bold type was invented. Bruce... Read more »
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