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Orbital Salvage is gathering thoughts and opinions in an ongoing project to predict what comes next, one word at a time.

I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the right hand side.

I absolutely love this example of brute-force justification of a monospace font:

https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/

The actual FAQ is here:

Super Justified Super Metroid FAQ

Source: Comment by Dunstan Orchard on Kottke.org

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Hot Takes

Orbital Salvage is gathering thoughts and opinions in an ongoing project to predict what comes next, one word at a time.