If you’ve been a programmer or programming-adjacent nerd1 for a while, you’ll have doubtless come across an ASCII table. An ASCII table is useful. But did you know it’s also beautiful and elegant. Even non-programmer-adjacent nerds may have a cultural awareness of ASCII thanks to books and films like The Martian2. ASCII‘s still very-much around; even if you’re transmitting modern Unicode3 the most-popular encoding format UTF-8 is specifically-designed to be backwards-compatible with ASCII! If yo...