Chronicles of the Unicode Pantheon — essays on linguistics, mythology, and the craft of restoration.
The erasure of diacritics in ASCII domains is not a technical limitation — it is a cultural amnesia. When Ἀπόλλων becomes "Apollo," something irreplaceable is lost: the pitch accent that rises like a musical note, the long vowels that stretch across syllables like held breath. This essay explores why Unicode restoration is not pedantry, but philological justice.
Read More →How does zeús.com become xn--zes-9na.com? A deep dive into the IDNA2008 algorithm, the difference between encoding and representation, and why browsers intentionally hide the truth from users. Understanding Punycode is essential to understanding why Unicode domains remain invisible despite being technically possible for over a decade.
Read More →Hand-crafting twenty archetype temples taught us about canvas performance, the Greek pitch accent system, and the theological weight of a single diacritic. This retrospective covers the architecture decisions, the animation challenges, the tier system evolution, and the philosophical moments that shaped the project.
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