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

(michaelcharl.es)
885 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 04:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | 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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1. shadowgovt ◴[17 Nov 24 20:23 UTC] No.42166874[source]▶
I'm not sure it's fair for me to comment on "the ethos of this community," but I remember when rebeccapurple was added to the spec and there were commenters here bemoaning adding complexity to the spec for no benefit.

I'll say "You will find more than zero people here who don't really seem to consider humanity and tech overlapping domains."