Tag: history
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The backstory of named colors
One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison. 🔗 Storied Colors Related, I collect color palettes I like over on cote.pizza.
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Shitting in the field, but plated in the dining room
[The Normans] gave English its double vision, which is the source of both the beauty and the mess. After 1066 you’ve got the Saxon peasantry keeping the Germanic words for the muddy daily grind and the Norman lords laying French over the top for everything refined, so English ends up with two words for everything…
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From ChatGPT based on “Pyramid of Capitalist System,” Nedeljkovich, Brashich, & Kuharich, Industrial Workers of the World, 1911. Of course, for America at least, what you’d like to visualize is that every layer actually plays a part on “shareholder,” just a small part. Maybe there’s some stock certificates and cash that trickle down in pneumatic…
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History is not a story
But how much was really done to unravel the Soviet Union by Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume narrative history of the Soviet Gulag between its publication and the end of Communism in the Soviet Union? Could the works of one author really dissolve a nation? Some might cite the election of the Polish Pope John Paul II in…
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My grandfather was mildly obsessed with organizing and documenting the history of his life: a memoir about a career in the military from 1938 to ~1975, growing up in a Depression era Oklahoma “dirt farm.” There was also geology. I think all old people have that project. Us soon to be old Gen-X’ers have more…
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the reason the 2000 bug didn’t destroy a significant amount of our infrastructure is because we caught it and spent thousands of hours fixing it BEFORE the year 2000 🔗 I wish we had spent the last 26 years…
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Related to your interests, Wednesday
More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds – “Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63bn views and 221 million subscribers, generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates.” // Assuming The Algorithm” is working (showing people things they will watch and…
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Woke fonts. I wasn’t sure what size they used for Courier New.1 How I long for the all business, utilitarian thrill of Courier New… It was a simpler time. From the original memo, it looks like 12 point? ↩
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The robot says: Underwood was the typewriter brand for much of the early 20th century. Hemingway, Stein, and most journalists of the period used machines that looked basically like this. By 1939 they had produced their five-millionth unit, which was unheard of at the time. And: These machines were tanks. Everything is metal, everything is…
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“While the JavaScript language didn’t ship publicly until that September and didn’t reach a 1.0 release until March 1996, the descendants of Eich’s initial 10-day hack now run on approximately 98.9 percent of all websites with client-side code, making JavaScript the dominant programming language of the web. It’s wildly popular; beyond the browser, JavaScript powers…
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”Trente Glorieuses” Trente Glorieuses
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Frans Francken the Younger (1581-1642) and David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) The Interior of a Picture Gallery Around 1640
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How the Sun Microsystems acquisition made Oracle the cloud company it is today
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Training for Legacy – Press Pass
Training for Legacy – Press Pass Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson asked me recently for advice on working with legacy applications. Check out her piece on it. Here’s the full reply I sent to her in email: Her topics: – The steps someone could take to get themselves up to speed on their employer’s legacy software. –…
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The forgotten war on the Walkman – The new thing is always going to destroy civilization, or at least proper behavior.
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