The title and graphic suggest an article about the most delicious treat known to humans, and the post is about software. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Macaroon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon Macaron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron
came here to say this
On "macaroon":
> The name "macaroon" is borrowed from French macaron
On "macaron":
> A macaron, or French macaroon, is a ...
The paper calls them Macaroons as a play on (browser) Cookies with layers (of caveats) - so clearly they meant macarons as well, since a macaroon doesn't have layers. Or at least, that's always been my interpretation of the name. It's possible it was just an arbitrary play on hMAC cookies and not the layers?
(There are also Garibaldi biscuits, which would at first seem to dilute the theory... but he was born in France!)
Was it intentionally named as an allusion to this confusion? Software is full of hand-wringing over naming and the importance of naming. Is it supposed to be a kind of cookie that is often mistaken for a different cookie?
Or is this just another referer, a mistake that has been accepted as canon. Referer has the benefit of not being a real word at all though, so is less confusing.
I view it as a mild plus that the confusion around the name has educated so many about confectionery taxonomies.