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gladuz · 2024-06-16T12:31:30

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

gladuz · 2024-04-25T13:20:17

Cal Newport talked about this in his podcast. Just taking a book and going in is really important to reduce the friction.

gladuz · on Feb 9, 2021

Can you please explain it in detail. I don't know Arabic and can't figure out the pattern. He is born in my country and it would be cool to show the cover to my peers.

jazzyjackson · on Feb 9, 2021

The pattern is the script called "Square Kufic" (a google image search +mosaic reveals many wondrous examples) and the arabic form of al-Khwarizmi is الخوارزمي

The kufic letters are fairly abstract but look for the verticals, there are 9 letters (last 2 are joined, I think, I cannot read it either just looking closely)

ا A

ل l

خ kh

و w

ا a

ر r

ز z

م m

ي i

ignoramous · on Feb 9, 2021

> ...Square Kufic

Its superset, "Geometric Kufic", is a more interesting rabbit hole. In general, Arabesque patterns are almost exclusively floral / geometric.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12049316

matsemann · on Feb 9, 2021

A discussion about it from earlier here that might be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805877

gladuz · on June 9, 2020

Which Lynda courses would you recommend taking for starters?

tekstar · on June 9, 2020

The key thing is to look for courses released, like, 2018 or later.

I started with Essential CSS as a refresher. If you don't know much about CSS it's a good start. https://www.lynda.com/CSS-tutorials/CSS-Essential-Training/5...

Now I'm watching Design Aesthetics for the Web https://www.lynda.com/Design-Techniques-tutorials/Design-Aes...

On the same topic as "you don't need frameworks to get jobs done", the next one I'm going to take is learning ES6, because modern browser-supported javascript isn't completely terrible anymore.