This post outlines how to create a webapp with multiple files and third-party dependencies in TypeScript without relying on Node or Require, using the IntelliJ IDE. For such a seemingly simple task, there is a dearth of useful tutorial material online; most TypeScript guides …
Author: Justin Kunimune
Rescriptivism: the new school of linguistic thought
I've decided to take it upon myself to start a new school of linguistic thought. One that accounts for not only the fluid and constructed nature of all language, but also its utility, and our agential roles within it. One that gives me a justification for why I've recently started …
A survey of international auxiliary languages
I've compiled this table of extant auxlangs. If you like the idea of learning an auxlang but don't know which one to learn, I encourage you to use this list to make an informed decision. For each language, I note several key features that can be used to characterize …
Introducing the Danseiji Projections
For centuries, cartographers have wrestled with the challenges of making accurate maps. They were limited by not only the mathematical impossibility of accurately portraying a curved surface on a plane, but also by their computational capacities. In …
Oltilip: an international auxiliary language
Oltilip is the international auxiliary language that I constructed. I designed it to facilitate international communication across all humankind, and as such, aimed to make it as neutral, elegant, and easy-to-learn as possible. Based on those principles, I created a language with …
Magnetohydrodynamic simulations in COMSOL Multiphysics
Depending on your familiarity with MHD and COMSOL, making a tokamak in COMSOL may seem like a strange thing to want to do. Well, it is. COMSOL is typically used for industrial-type things—systems with simple physics but complicated geometries where …
The Sudofannettick Inglish Reform
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Th’ Fneemk Inglsh Seudoe-Abj(a)d
But ie wuznt goewng too die. Not unles yoo invietd sumwn, Miek add. "Noep," ie lied brietly. "Laundry," and then hee rusht, stumblng, too th' floar. Jasp(')r, hwevr, pauzd at th' desk wood 'lou. Insted, hee sat kwiet kloes bsied Jaik(')b. Ie glanst 'round, but it didnt …
Argentina!
Hello, Olin. I write to you now from The City of Good Airs, the capital of a faraway country in the Southern Annulus called Silverland. My path here has been treacherous, requiring me to cross that impenetrable band of intense solar radiation, the Scorch, or the Equator …
A Defense of “A Defense of the Mercator Projection”
Last month, in Mitch Cieminski's article, "The Mercator Needs no Defense", he made several compelling arguments advocating for the globe in favor of maps, and for the Mercator Projection in particular. While the globe has its distinct advantages, so too do …