July 2025 – Aharoni in Unicode
1 post published by aharoni during July 2025| Aharoni in Unicode
I have several weird and mostly useless super-powers. Some of them are actually super-powers that don’t have a rational explanation; I’ll leave them for other posts. The one I’ll …| Aharoni in Unicode
I’m a forty-five-year-old man, and I have realized only recently that a lot of grown-up and seemingly healthy people of various ages, genders, income levels, political persuasions, and profes…| Aharoni in Unicode
Well over 200 languages are spoken in the African country of Cameroon. Two of them are French and English, which are official because colonialism. Many people in Cameroon know them, but definitely not everyone. Two other big languages are spoken in Cameroon and in many other countries: Fula and Arabic. All the other languages spoken … Continue reading Duala Becomes the First Language From Cameroon to be Supported by MediaWiki, the Software That Runs Wikipedia→| Aharoni in Unicode
Two thoughts about “journey”, one year after moving to the United States: Part one: Small-j journey Americans use the word “journey” much more than I imagined. Every imaginable career is a journey—politician, driver, software developer, CEO. And yes, I know that “career” literally means “a street”, but beware of etymological fallacies because “journey” literally means … Continue reading Journey→| Aharoni in Unicode
It’s fun. It gives value to my knowledge. When it’s in my head, it’s just for me. When it’s in Wikipedia, it’s there for the whole humanity. That is value, intrinsic value, which shows its worth only when shared. It can be translated. I am repeatedly amazed at the languages to which things that I … Continue reading What Is it Like to Be a Wikipedia Editor→| Aharoni in Unicode
I sometimes see a bad mistake in a Hebrew translation of a message in MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia. I check who made it, and see that it’s myself, a few years ago. I post somet…| Aharoni in Unicode
Saturday, July 20, 2024 is the day on which the plot of Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel “Parable of the Sower” begins. This book and its sequel, also known collectively as “Earthseed”, are excellent and you should read them if you haven’t already. The spoilers from here on are not significant, but if you want absolutely … Continue reading Earthseed Day One→| Aharoni in Unicode
It sometimes happens in people’s lives that someone tells them something that sounds true and obvious at the time. It turns out that it actually is objectively true, and it is also obvious, o…| Aharoni in Unicode
Intro comment 1: This post was originally written on Quora as an answer to this question: What was it like for a Russian Jew to escape to Israel in the 1990s? It was updated a bit, but the general …| Aharoni in Unicode
This post was originally written on Quora as an answer to this question: Many Russian Jews have emigrated to Israel. When they settle in Israel, do they keep their Russian language and culture along with learning Hebrew and English? It was changed somewhat to adapt it to a blog medium and for other copy editing. … Continue reading Keeping the Russian Language in Israel→| Aharoni in Unicode
The first time I wrote an angry post about Quora here was in 2018. Already then, I said that I am leaving that site after writing there for about six years and receiving the “Top Writer”…| Aharoni in Unicode
