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Cake day: February 22nd, 2026

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  • We don’t “need” capital and lower case letters either technically but we agree to use them because it makes for a nicer reading experience

    This argument seems technically true (the best kind of true, maybe!) but I’d say the readability gains from capitalization are much higher than having multiple horizontal line glyphs.

    "Capitalization is the difference between ‘I helped my uncle Jack off the horse’ and ‘I helped my uncle jack off the horse’ "