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  • snek_boi@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlScrum
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    1 month ago

    I haven’t read your blog post, but I agree with your comment.

    Unfortunately, Scrum is often misused. Why? Often, I think people don’t understand the problems that Scrum is trying to solve. So people implement Scrum poorly. And, when evaluation time comes, they blame everything but their lack of knowledge and skill regarding Scrum.

    But Scrum is actually a framework to help you solve very common problems.

    If you understand that, then Scrum becomes useful.

    There’s a set of problems that teams will always have to deal with: how to choose what to work on, how to coordinate, how to know when something is done, how to see if your work actually solves the problems you’re trying to solve, how to deal with task-switching costs, how to deal with cognitive load, how to deal with complexity…

    And those problems can be solved with Scrum. Or Kanban. Or any other Agile way of working.

    What’s important is that it works.



  • I agree with you and think it’s worthwhile to critically evaluate fonts.

    So what happens if we evaluate cursive font? Well, for most people, loopy cursive is hard to read.

    To understand why loopy cursive is problematic, here’s an excerpt from two experts on handwriting:

    Conventional looped cursive has not held up to modern life and is being abandoned by most adults, because

    • Its decorative loops and excessive joins obscure visual cues,
    • It loses legibility when written quickly,
    • It doesn’t reflect the writing we see in type or on screen, and
    • 100% joined writing is typically slower and no more legible than writing that joins most, but not all letters.

    So loopy cursive sucks, but does that mean that we should straight up ditch cursive altogether? Are there fonts that are quick to write and legible? Turns out, those same experts built a handwriting system, the Getty-Dubay system. Their writing system does not seek to “look pretty and fancy-pants” (to quote you). Instead, their writing system tries to “communicate clearly” (to quote you again). They built something logical and pragmatic.

    How can you be sure of what I’m saying? Well, you be the judge!

    Here’s a picture of the Getty-Dubay fonts, both print and cursive:

    Here’s a comparison of different cursive fonts:

    If you want more information, here’s a resource you can check out: https://handwritingsuccess.com/why-cursive/

    So yeah, the way I see it, loopy cursive is hell, and italic-based cursive is the best of both worlds: italic-based cursive is fast to write and easy to read.