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The growing lexicon of tone indicators, beyond helping people understand what’s sincere or what’s flirty, can feel, to the uninitiated, like another language. And at their most complex, tone indicators may veer into the patronizing.
Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?
nytimes.com
With very few exceptions, URLs should be idempotent: *the same path should always take a user to the same resource*.
The UX of URLs
shalvah.me
What I actually think people pay me for is the general vibe that I cultivate. It is the feeling that they get at the end of the piece where they think to themselves, “Ah, that was fun and I feel smarter.” Crucially, it doesn’t actually matter whether readers have gotten smarter. My compensation is dependent on the cultivation of that vibe.
Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
every.to
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