boxcat

boxcat

Writing on rhetoric, mathematics, and the making of things

Notes kept in the open. Mostly on argument and its machinery, sometimes on the mathematics underneath, sometimes on code.

Permutation Cuts

A bitonic array, read backwards into the permutation that made it

Proof

Every typographic decision on the site, set at the size it actually occurs

The Measure of a Line

On why justified text is a discrete optimisation problem, and why your browser gets it wrong