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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.goodreads.com/book/show/237693038-true-color

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 legitimately curious if we have solid numbers yet for when this starts to happen (and for which definitions of "collapse").

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 how he developed his programming techniques and visual style.

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 fascinated by Yugo Nakamura's experimental websites back in the late 90s because they were some of the first that I'd seen that had an organic feel due to liberal use of easing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLt7Gwnt3WY

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 on delivery, Q&A, etc.

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-platform-...

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 http://yugop.com/ from back in the early 2000s.

You can catch a little glimpse of his style with the bottom menu on https://web.archive.org/web/20040804050646/http://www.yugop...., but unfortunately the main body of the site (which was the best bit) doesn't work anymore because it was built with Flash.

Some of his current work with https://tha.jp/ still has a great organic fun feel to it.

* ...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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now "It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress; shows our progress with data that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide; and explains the cognitive science of why this progress should be appreciated." It has its detractors, so apply your own grain of salt where needed.

"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." via the 'Why do we use it?' section on https://www.lipsum.com/

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-standing you may ask? Here's my answer from _2010_ to https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/481/whats-the-singl...

I feel sorry for the poor n00bs who come here thinking it's awesome, ask a seemingly innocent question, and then get shouted/voted down for asking a dupe and not searching properly before they asked. And yes, I said 'shouted down', because despite what a lot of experienced users many think, that's what it'd feel like for a new user who's unfamiliar with the S/OFU culture.

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, biased and inflammatory statements such as "the curriculum is awash with references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and spiritual values with minimum reference to the benefits and value of Western civilisation and the importance of the Enlightenment and Judeo-Christianity".

Read the comments on the article for more on this.

I have young children in an Australian public school and find his statement above to be empirically false. Our school offers 'Religious Education' classes (Christianity only, no other religions) once a week. While on the other hand, NAIDOC Week (which celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and achievements, and recognises Indigenous Australians' contributions to our country) barely gets mentioned at school.

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 are expensive. Anker is much cheaper but not quite vertical enough for my liking.

2 - Set up my keyboard so that it tilts -away- from me. Meaning the back (F-key side) is about 1-2cm lower than the front (space bar side).

3 - Type with my wrists/palms raised up a bit and -not- resting on the desk or keyboard.

All of these things help keep my wrists and hands in a straight line with my forearms which seems to be the key for me.

It doesn't hurt to occasionally do some wrist stretches too.

We haven't given up, there is simply not enough financial incentive to make the software any better. See 'We Could Write Nearly Perfect Software but We Choose Not to' https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/sapm/2014/03/14/we-could-write-nea... "The simple truth is that bug–free on-time software is just more expensive than we (or our clients) are prepared to pay."