What I have found gripping
Making changes to a project's CSS may sometimes require running a command to compile assets before viewing them locally
Shifting towards tools not requiring compiling assets with a command allows one to focus on other things
The wrong encoding scheme can lead to a UnicodeDecodeError like this one:
"UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xd7 in position 10: invalid continuation byte"
Looking into the causes of the previous error message led to reading up about character sets and encodings
UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit
What I have read
8-Bit Unicode Transformation Format, Margaret Rouse
Python Developer's Guide to Character Encoding, Anita Achu
5 Ally Actions - Mar 15, 2024, Better Allies
aria-label, aria-labelledby, and aria-describedby: What's the Difference?, Ben Myers
What I have watched
Why Science is for me, The Royal Society
Featured quote
Unicode is a universal character set that defines all characters for different human languages used on computers with over one million code points. These code points refer to displayed text or characters. — Anita Achu
Further reading and resources
In English
Unicode, in friendly terms: ASCII, UTF-8, code points, character encodings, and more (YouTube), Studying With Alex
In French
Pourquoi si peu de filles en mathématiques ?, Clémence Perronnet (Chercheuse en sociologie rattachée au Centre Max Weber (UMR 5283), ENS de Lyon)
Capturer, stocker et utiliser le carbone par la technologie : option sérieuse pour le climat ?, Adel Ben Youssef (Associate professor, Université Côte d’Azur)