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18/11/23, thirteenth day in a row

Practice

Today I had a kendo competition. I have not seriously practiced for close to 2 years. The result was, as I joked on twitter, not "不 (ふ) 動 (どう) 心 (しん) (immovable mind) " but just "不動 (ふどう) (immovable) ". Practice in kendo, at least once a week, two or three times a week if possible, is the only way to improve. Just like writing, just like coding, just like anything I want to become better at.

Not much today either

• I forced myself to so some lessons at freeCodeCamp, not much
• I read a bit more about trigonometric functions

Memo on ruby

• ruby is used for adding annotations (pronunciation/meaning) to Asian characters.
• rt is the ruby text, the contents of the annotation.
• rp is the fallback parenthesis, to display the annotation in browsers that don't support ruby.
• rb is the ruby base, the text that is being annotated.
• rtc is the ruby text container, the semantic annotation of the rb contents.
• rbc does not seem to be defined in the whatwg (neither is rtc) or the W3C specification (where rtc is).
• Example:

  <ruby xml:lang="ja-jp">
       <rbc>
            <rb>不</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>ふ</rt><rp>) </rp>
  	      <rb>動</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>どう</rt><rp>) </rp>
  	      <rb>心</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>しん</rt><rp>) </rp>
  	  </rbc>
       <rtc xml:lang="en">
            <rp> (</rp><rt>immovable mind</rt><rp>) </rp>
       </rtc>
  </ruby>

• Support is not equal between browsers by the way. Here is the rendering in the latest versions of Chromium (most recent update), Safari (Technology Preview) and Firefox (Developer Edition):

  Chromium:

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