🧐 Behold, half a million β€œwords with spaces” the dictionary gatekeepers have conspired to omit! 🀯 Boiling water and Saturday night, lost classics of lexicography! Thanks to our word-game hero, armed with a slider, the linguistic universe will never be the same! πŸ˜‚πŸ“š
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Words with Spaces - Linguabase

Nearly half a million English compound phrases aren't in any dictionary β€” simply because they contain spaces. An interactive analysis of what's missing and why.

So What Should We Call This – a Grue Jay?

The rare hybrid offspring of a blue jay and a green jay is likely a result of weather-related shifts in the range of two species.

College of Natural Sciences
πŸŽ‰ Zig's grand scheme for asynchronous programming is here to revolutionize the world, or so it thinks. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still trying to figure out why we should care about a language that's best known as "that one with a zingy name." πŸ€”βœ¨
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Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

The designers of the Zig programming language have been working to find a suitable design for [...]

LWN.net
πŸš€ In a world where Google Translate already exists, an article promises a utopian future of "cheap translations" at web speed, as if this is brand-new info πŸ€”. Meanwhile, Professor Gibson, with more books than a library, speculates on language like it's 1999. πŸ“šπŸ’­
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After Babel Fish

More communication is not necessarily better communication.

The Hedgehog Review
After Babel Fish

More communication is not necessarily better communication.

The Hedgehog Review
πŸš€ Swiftly 1.0: The latest attempt to cram every possible buzzword into one overstuffed casserole of corporate virtue signaling. 🍝 Debug your way through endless committees and governance docs while pretending you’re not just using another glorified Apple-approved coding language. πŸ“šπŸ”§
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Introducing swiftly 1.0

Today we’re delighted to introduce the first stable release of swiftly, a Swift version manager that takes the pain out of installing, managing and updating your Swift toolchain.

Swift.org