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CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`

(michaelcharl.es)
908 points thunderbong | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 04:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.926s | source
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langsoul-com ◴[17 Nov 24 05:48 UTC] No.42162264[source]▶
> The color was originally going to be called beccapurple, but Meyer asked that it instead be named rebeccapurple, as his daughter had wanted to be called Rebecca once she had turned six. She had said that Becca was a "baby name," and that once she had turned six, she wanted to be called Rebecca. As Eric Meyer put it, "She made it to six. For almost twelve hours, she was six. So Rebecca it is and must be."

Wasn't expecting tears over a colour

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jvm___ ◴[17 Nov 24 07:42 UTC] No.42162624[source]▶
..in 2014 in honor of Eric Meyer's daughter, Rebecca, who passed away at the age of six on her birthday from brain cancer.
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userbinator[dead post] ◴[17 Nov 24 11:34 UTC] No.42163561[source]▶
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[17 Nov 24 12:07 UTC] No.42163750[source]▶
It is sad to see such a comment come from someone with such high karma and seniority. I hope that it is not reflective of the ethos of this community.

I feel we have way too little humanity in tech. With the advent of AI, that does not promise to improve.

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johnisgood[dead post] ◴[17 Nov 24 13:25 UTC] No.42164076[source]▶
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1. TimTheTinker ◴[17 Nov 24 14:36 UTC] No.42164387[source]▶
I agree with not switching from "master" to "main" in git branch parliance. (The music industry didn't stop "mastering" albums, with good reason -- it's a technical term that refers to technical authority, which is a concept worth keeping.)

But I don't think this thread is the place for such a discussion. Technical authority and "woke" culture arguments are one thing, but we're talking here about honoring Erie Meier (a seminal figure in CSS history) and his daughter by adding a named color (basically an alias) to CSS and using it in the logo. That's worth doing simply out of love and honor for Eric, his wife and family, and his daughter.

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2. johnisgood ◴[17 Nov 24 14:39 UTC] No.42164405[source]▶
Just to clarify: my comment was not related to Erie Meier at all.

I do not mind the rename from beccapurple to rebeccapurple either.