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I'm a sarcastic, coffee-fueled computer programmer/web developer with a heavy interest in/passion for accessibility/a11y practices.

Native Texan, living life as a happy expat, with my wife, dog, and cats.

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

tellingly, right before she died, grandma's final purchase at Bed, Bath & Beyond was curtains .

"Cistercian Numbers" are incredibly cool

It's a rare numeric system designed by 13th century monks

Each number is a based on a single vertical stick, with patterns you draw in all four quadrants off it -- top right, top left, bottom right, bottom left

A single glyph can represent a number from 1 to 9,999

It's in my recent weekly "Linkfest" newsletter, here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-3-cisterian-numbers-robots-that-hug-and/

Want to subscribe? Pay-what-you-want here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson

I call it "The opposite of doomscrolling"

Linkfest #3: "Cistercian Numbers", Robots That Hug, and Dice That Roll Negative Numbers

1) 🧮 Cistercian numbers I’d never heard of Cistercian numbers before, until I stumbled upon this brief post describing them … Cistercian numbers are an...

Given the choice, every single woman would rather avoid pregnancy than have an abortion.

Pro-life? Then support birth control.

Look, they’re going as fast as they can

How likely is it that you will still be on Mastodon a year from now?

#BOOST OK

✅ Certainly
80.2%
⭕ Not sure
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❌ No way
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