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The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla's reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:

• The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyrocketed (by millions)
• While the Mozilla revenue drops
• And the Firefox Marketshare takes a nosedive
• While, at first, this seems ridiculously lopsided... perhaps it actually makes sense.

It turns out that Unicode support in Terminals is a lot more difficult than it first appears. A quick overview of special support for Unicode characters in Terminals:

• "Wide" or "Fullwidth" characters, particularly for East Asian languages and emojis, are codepoints that occupy two cells in a terminal instead of one.
• "Zero" width combining characters used in languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, or Hindi do not occupy any cells themselves; instead, they modify the previous character.
• "Zero Width Joiner" (ZWJ U+200D) reduces and combines many codepoints into a single emoji. This is similar to combining, but encoded in a completely different way.
• "Variation Selector-16" (VS-16 U+FE0F) is a special character that, for specific "Narrow" emojis consuming one cell, causes them to become "Wide", consuming two cells.

Tinboard is a client for Pinboard, based in the terminal, it includes:

• Add/edit/delete bookmarks.
• Various forms of filtering.
• Filtering with tags.
• Full text search.

HTTP status codes as raccoons as a service.

Kinda like the cat one, only with less cat and more raccoon.

Useful article talking about unicode stuff.

Page is annoying to read though with daft gimmicks.