[Wowfunhappy]

> Not sure why the author used them, though.

I'm pretty sure the author is trying to mimic the VMWare logo: https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/slt3lc6tev37/6lqgerXP23...

Reading through their blog, the author appears to enjoy being clever with unicode.

[numist]

Pretty much. When I was at VMware (2007-2011) the canonical logo used small caps for the capital letters. I thought it looked nice.

[wkat4242]

He didn't manage to make it look like the ligature though :( There is probably a way to do that with unicode.