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For a word nerd exploration of how colours are defined in dictionaries, check out 'True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color' by Kory Stamper. https://www.goodr…

Do you have any references for "vibe coded monoliths tend to collapse in on themselves at ~30,000 LOC"? I haven't personally vibed up anything with that many LOC, so I'm legitimate…

The doco (with section on Erik) is on YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIr7du6Y3w

Credit where credit is due. https://x.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868

Great doco about origami that Erik appears in. 'Between The Folds' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIr7du6Y3w

Seeing him present those demos/techniques in person would have been an amazing experience. Is there video of that presentation online anywhere? I'd love to know the background of h…

He asked us, "Be you angels?" And we said nay. We are but men, write!

It's fascinating that easing, which is what this article mostly boils down to, is something that each new generation seems to need to (re)discover on their own. I remember being fa…

My favourite meta-talk post is Zach Holman's 'The Talk on Talks'. https://zachholman.com/talk/the-talk-on-talks/ It covers some of the same basic design territory but also touches …

Octopus Deploy was bootstrapped (and profitable) from 2012 until its first funding round in 2021, which is a pretty good stretch. https://venturebeat.com/business/devops-automation…

It's great to see simple non-productized playfulness on the internet again. All the fun experiments on https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz/ remind me of Yugo Nakamura's now-defunct site htt…

* ...can't be _un_installed

#6 is missing. Are 7-11 off by 1?

If you are interested in how the world is doing -over the long term-, check out 'Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress' by Steven Pinker. https://…

"The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English…

This is a very long-standing problem that Stack Overflow has had so it's good to see them taking it seriously (regardless of whatever the underlying motivations may be). How long-s…

The integrity of this article is completely undermined by the fact that the author is a senior research fellow at the Australian Catholic University and then includes self-serving,…

Jeff Atwood blogged about this last week. 'Can Software Make You Less Racist?' https://blog.codinghorror.com/can-software-make-you-less-rac...

I get RSI in my wrists/hands from typing/coding. But three small changes to my desk set up keep it almost entirely at bay: 1 - Use a vertical mouse. I like Evoluent best but they a…