Readings for Lunch — [ 20 Apr 2018 ]
WEB DEVELOPMENT
Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia
Via Claudia Romano
On the surface it looks quite simple. It’s something many websites have already. It has an image and some text and shows when you hover over a link. Hardly groundbreaking stuff … or so it may seem.
TYPOGRAPHY
Helvetica Is Now An Encryption Device
Researchers have figured out a way to embed encryption into typed blocks of text on paper. Their secret weapon? Helvetica and Times New Roman.