Quick design wins for Monday: Use odd numbers in layouts (3 or 5 elements, not 4). Our brains find them more interesting. Apply the rule of thirds for placement. Leave whitespace—it's not empty, it's powerful. These principles are baked into every template we create.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Quick design wins for Monday: Use odd numbers in layouts (3 or 5 elements, not 4). Our brains find them more interesting. Apply the rule of thirds for placement. Leave whitespace—it's not empty, it's powerful. These principles are baked into every template we create.
Dear websites which want you to redeem codes.
A fucking regex to remove leading and trailing whitespace is not fucking hard. Whitespace as may be picked up unintentionally when copypastaing said code from an email.
I appreciate the £10 voucher, GW, but still.
A fucking regex to remove leading and trailing whitespace is not fucking hard. Whitespace as may be picked up unintentionally when copypastaing said code from an email.
I appreciate the £10 voucher, GW, but still.
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Dear websites which want you to redeem codes.
A fucking regex to remove leading and trailing whitespace is not fucking hard. Whitespace as may be picked up unintentionally when copypastaing said code from an email.
I appreciate the £10 voucher, GW, but still.
A fucking regex to remove leading and trailing whitespace is not fucking hard. Whitespace as may be picked up unintentionally when copypastaing said code from an email.
I appreciate the £10 voucher, GW, but still.
Computationally, whitespace gets little attention—it’s usually standardized or stripped.
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Computationally, whitespace gets little attention—it’s usually standardized or stripped.
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
But in poetry, whitespace matters!
Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs.
New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
PSA:
Dear meme creators and sharers, stop assaulting my design sensibilities and your message with horrid typography and 6 different colors in a single meme.
Less is more.
See "whitespace" for guidance.
Dear meme creators and sharers, stop assaulting my design sensibilities and your message with horrid typography and 6 different colors in a single meme.
Less is more.
See "whitespace" for guidance.
November 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
PSA:
Dear meme creators and sharers, stop assaulting my design sensibilities and your message with horrid typography and 6 different colors in a single meme.
Less is more.
See "whitespace" for guidance.
Dear meme creators and sharers, stop assaulting my design sensibilities and your message with horrid typography and 6 different colors in a single meme.
Less is more.
See "whitespace" for guidance.
Not at all controversial imo it’s way better and still very concise without relying on semantic whitespace
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Not at all controversial imo it’s way better and still very concise without relying on semantic whitespace
Grow you own tree with just pen and ink with The Bonsai Diary by @stickydoodler.bsky.social
Bonsai trees can live hundreds of years. Who will inherit this living being? What will they think of you in 2178? Will they think of you at all?
tabletopbookshelf.com/products/the...
Bonsai trees can live hundreds of years. Who will inherit this living being? What will they think of you in 2178? Will they think of you at all?
tabletopbookshelf.com/products/the...
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Grow you own tree with just pen and ink with The Bonsai Diary by @stickydoodler.bsky.social
Bonsai trees can live hundreds of years. Who will inherit this living being? What will they think of you in 2178? Will they think of you at all?
tabletopbookshelf.com/products/the...
Bonsai trees can live hundreds of years. Who will inherit this living being? What will they think of you in 2178? Will they think of you at all?
tabletopbookshelf.com/products/the...
When you read a poem, do you wonder how the poet structures it through whitespace between/before words and lines?
We did! Our findings on whitespace - how to measure/preserve it, how usage varies across form/time, how it affects LLMs - now in an #EMNLP2025 (main) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.16713
🧵👇
We did! Our findings on whitespace - how to measure/preserve it, how usage varies across form/time, how it affects LLMs - now in an #EMNLP2025 (main) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.16713
🧵👇
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
When you read a poem, do you wonder how the poet structures it through whitespace between/before words and lines?
We did! Our findings on whitespace - how to measure/preserve it, how usage varies across form/time, how it affects LLMs - now in an #EMNLP2025 (main) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.16713
🧵👇
We did! Our findings on whitespace - how to measure/preserve it, how usage varies across form/time, how it affects LLMs - now in an #EMNLP2025 (main) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.16713
🧵👇
New exhibition opening at Whitespace Gallery on Wednesday
Scottish artist Stuart McAlpine Miller is opening an exhibition of his latest work, Reimagined, described as a "bold new collection marking a powerful shift in direction" for the artist best known for his supernatural realism and globally…
Scottish artist Stuart McAlpine Miller is opening an exhibition of his latest work, Reimagined, described as a "bold new collection marking a powerful shift in direction" for the artist best known for his supernatural realism and globally…
New exhibition opening at Whitespace Gallery on Wednesday
Scottish artist Stuart McAlpine Miller is opening an exhibition of his latest work, Reimagined, described as a "bold new collection marking a powerful shift in direction" for the artist best known for his supernatural realism and globally recognised figurative style. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, McAlpine Miller’s distinctive, spectral approach has earned him worldwide recognition. His work is praised for its psychological depth and technical mastery and is featured in major collections including The Savoy Hotel, London, where there are eight of his paintings on display.
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
New exhibition opening at Whitespace Gallery on Wednesday
Scottish artist Stuart McAlpine Miller is opening an exhibition of his latest work, Reimagined, described as a "bold new collection marking a powerful shift in direction" for the artist best known for his supernatural realism and globally…
Scottish artist Stuart McAlpine Miller is opening an exhibition of his latest work, Reimagined, described as a "bold new collection marking a powerful shift in direction" for the artist best known for his supernatural realism and globally…
It looks like this was an unintended bug that did affect other Unicode emojis and has now been fixed. It seems to have been related to an attempt to allow longer comments by removing hidden whitespace but accidentally included some of the parts of some compound emojis.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It looks like this was an unintended bug that did affect other Unicode emojis and has now been fixed. It seems to have been related to an attempt to allow longer comments by removing hidden whitespace but accidentally included some of the parts of some compound emojis.
i reduced whitespace and contrast
for now i'll keep it this way, let it cook a bit, i know it won't please everyone but it should at least be more readable
for now i'll keep it this way, let it cook a bit, i know it won't please everyone but it should at least be more readable
November 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
i reduced whitespace and contrast
for now i'll keep it this way, let it cook a bit, i know it won't please everyone but it should at least be more readable
for now i'll keep it this way, let it cook a bit, i know it won't please everyone but it should at least be more readable
The project that started my whitespace obsession... #EMNLP2025
While we've all been worrying about tokenizers, lurking in the background has been the preprocessing *before* tokenization. Poems break standard HTML-to-text linearization systems, and we find that multimodal models aren't a solution.
While we've all been worrying about tokenizers, lurking in the background has been the preprocessing *before* tokenization. Poems break standard HTML-to-text linearization systems, and we find that multimodal models aren't a solution.
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The project that started my whitespace obsession... #EMNLP2025
While we've all been worrying about tokenizers, lurking in the background has been the preprocessing *before* tokenization. Poems break standard HTML-to-text linearization systems, and we find that multimodal models aren't a solution.
While we've all been worrying about tokenizers, lurking in the background has been the preprocessing *before* tokenization. Poems break standard HTML-to-text linearization systems, and we find that multimodal models aren't a solution.
Whitespace matters a lot for poets, but it turns out to be REALLY hard to preserve whitespace faithfully. Given a screenshot or HTML scrape of a poem, how can we convert this to text without losing all the formatting, which is often integral to the meaning of the poem?
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Whitespace matters a lot for poets, but it turns out to be REALLY hard to preserve whitespace faithfully. Given a screenshot or HTML scrape of a poem, how can we convert this to text without losing all the formatting, which is often integral to the meaning of the poem?
We release:
1) a dataset of 2.8k public domain poems (source: Poetry Foundation) with preserved whitespace: github.com/darthbhyrava/wisp
2) an interactive public dashboard to visualize distribution of whitespace across 19.4k poems from 4.3k poets! poetry.darthbhyrava.com (WIP)
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
1) a dataset of 2.8k public domain poems (source: Poetry Foundation) with preserved whitespace: github.com/darthbhyrava/wisp
2) an interactive public dashboard to visualize distribution of whitespace across 19.4k poems from 4.3k poets! poetry.darthbhyrava.com (WIP)
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We release:
1) a dataset of 2.8k public domain poems (source: Poetry Foundation) with preserved whitespace: github.com/darthbhyrava/wisp
2) an interactive public dashboard to visualize distribution of whitespace across 19.4k poems from 4.3k poets! poetry.darthbhyrava.com (WIP)
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
1) a dataset of 2.8k public domain poems (source: Poetry Foundation) with preserved whitespace: github.com/darthbhyrava/wisp
2) an interactive public dashboard to visualize distribution of whitespace across 19.4k poems from 4.3k poets! poetry.darthbhyrava.com (WIP)
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
The Llama2 tokenizer is certainly not helping with this problem.
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The Llama2 tokenizer is certainly not helping with this problem.
We propose:
1) WISP, a practical typology of whitespace categories found in visually structured text, and
2) WISP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating whitespace fidelity across linearization methods. On a small set of poems, we find that HTML->text slightly outperforms MLM OCR!
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
1) WISP, a practical typology of whitespace categories found in visually structured text, and
2) WISP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating whitespace fidelity across linearization methods. On a small set of poems, we find that HTML->text slightly outperforms MLM OCR!
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We propose:
1) WISP, a practical typology of whitespace categories found in visually structured text, and
2) WISP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating whitespace fidelity across linearization methods. On a small set of poems, we find that HTML->text slightly outperforms MLM OCR!
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
1) WISP, a practical typology of whitespace categories found in visually structured text, and
2) WISP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating whitespace fidelity across linearization methods. On a small set of poems, we find that HTML->text slightly outperforms MLM OCR!
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
US practice: to avoid whitespace, commas and periods go inside quotation marks. All other punctuation stays where it originated.
Always "this," and "this."
Did she say "I'll do it"?
She said "why should I do it?" but didn't like my answer.
It's more typographic practice than grammar.
Always "this," and "this."
Did she say "I'll do it"?
She said "why should I do it?" but didn't like my answer.
It's more typographic practice than grammar.
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
US practice: to avoid whitespace, commas and periods go inside quotation marks. All other punctuation stays where it originated.
Always "this," and "this."
Did she say "I'll do it"?
She said "why should I do it?" but didn't like my answer.
It's more typographic practice than grammar.
Always "this," and "this."
Did she say "I'll do it"?
She said "why should I do it?" but didn't like my answer.
It's more typographic practice than grammar.
Poems come from different sources - published work, Reddit, generated from LLMs (why?) - often with names like Haiku/Sonnet.
How does whitespace usage vary across sources - especially when explicitly mentioned-in/excluded-from prompts for LLMs? Does it matter for pretraining LLMs?
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
How does whitespace usage vary across sources - especially when explicitly mentioned-in/excluded-from prompts for LLMs? Does it matter for pretraining LLMs?
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Poems come from different sources - published work, Reddit, generated from LLMs (why?) - often with names like Haiku/Sonnet.
How does whitespace usage vary across sources - especially when explicitly mentioned-in/excluded-from prompts for LLMs? Does it matter for pretraining LLMs?
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
How does whitespace usage vary across sources - especially when explicitly mentioned-in/excluded-from prompts for LLMs? Does it matter for pretraining LLMs?
#EMNLP2025
🧵👇
This matters not only for tokenizers and pretraining data and model generations — it also matters if we want to study large corpora of poems and accurately measure stylistic changes in whitespace usage. None of the systems we tested or built worked perfectly, and there's are a lot of open questions.
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This matters not only for tokenizers and pretraining data and model generations — it also matters if we want to study large corpora of poems and accurately measure stylistic changes in whitespace usage. None of the systems we tested or built worked perfectly, and there's are a lot of open questions.
Aqui o botão quebrou. Removendo o whitespace: nowrap e adicionando py-[16px] o botão fica bem legal.
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Aqui o botão quebrou. Removendo o whitespace: nowrap e adicionando py-[16px] o botão fica bem legal.
Jfc I am so tired of hearing engineers rag on about how useful it is for ai to automatically dump 20 lines of boilerplate code and can’t I wait for the future? We’re gonna port the linux kernel to whitespace using ai!
I just wanna make my little things and be happy they’re made.
I just wanna make my little things and be happy they’re made.
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Jfc I am so tired of hearing engineers rag on about how useful it is for ai to automatically dump 20 lines of boilerplate code and can’t I wait for the future? We’re gonna port the linux kernel to whitespace using ai!
I just wanna make my little things and be happy they’re made.
I just wanna make my little things and be happy they’re made.
Actually there is potentially a great opportunity to say “we are committed to whitespace but not to white spaces” so that one might just fly
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Actually there is potentially a great opportunity to say “we are committed to whitespace but not to white spaces” so that one might just fly
Our #NeurIPS2025 paper shows that even comparable monolingual tokenizers have different compression rates across languages. But by getting rid of whitespace tokenization and using a custom vocab size for each language, we can reduce token premiums. Preprint out now!
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our #NeurIPS2025 paper shows that even comparable monolingual tokenizers have different compression rates across languages. But by getting rid of whitespace tokenization and using a custom vocab size for each language, we can reduce token premiums. Preprint out now!
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October 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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It is pretty easy. For quick scripting I prefer Ruby, which is also pretty easy. At this point my only major complaint with Python, as someone who only occasionally touches the language, is the enforced whitespace which is pretty minor compared to the inconsistencies that were present in python 2.
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It is pretty easy. For quick scripting I prefer Ruby, which is also pretty easy. At this point my only major complaint with Python, as someone who only occasionally touches the language, is the enforced whitespace which is pretty minor compared to the inconsistencies that were present in python 2.
older drawings of stuff
October 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
older drawings of stuff