Discover where in the United States people talk like you with this interactive American Accent Quiz. Get a personalized dialect map based on the Harvard Dialect Survey.
Welcome | Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America
This Project explores syntactic diversity found in varieties of English spoken in North America. By documenting the subtle, but systematic, differences in the syntax of English varieties, it provides a crucial source of data for the development of theories of human linguistic knowledge.
'Ask for what you want' is a key skill for the 21st century
Takes practice, and a bit of audacity.
WinGPT
Do you use Windows 3.1? Do your friends send you jokes and haikus written by ChatGPT, and make you feel left out? Do you wish you had the sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips? Or wish you had your very own AI chatbot on your trusty 386?
proto instant messenger
AIM-inspired group chat on the AT Protocol. Real-time chat rooms, presence, away messages — a safe space for community.
I Hate The Way We Talk Online
Jason Toney on algorithm-speak, main character energy, and why a simple question about music charts revealed how badly we've forgotten how to talk to each other online."
Expert asterisks
Watching discussions happening online, I see a frequent unfortunate tic I’ll call the Expert Asterisk. A beginner is asking for help, and experts are answering.
In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad
Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.
Humans are social creatures. We crave bonding and social connections. In our digital world, our common social space is a campfire, which is the group chat.
proto IM | AIM-inspired video chat for the open web
Free video calls and buddy lists built on the AT Protocol. Like FaceTime, but it works on every device. Works with Blacksky, Bluesky, or any atproto account.
Not Like Us works with literally everything
Private School Demographics — ProPublica
Look up the demographics of private schools across the country and see how they compare to the public schools nearby.
Why the fuss about conversational programming?
First, there isn’t much fuss … yet. But there will be.
a11y.quest - 128 questions to level up your accessibility game
128 questions to level up your web accessibility game. Practice WCAG 2.2, ARIA, semantic HTML, keyboard, and contrast, with plain-English answers.
Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit
I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about Agentic Engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. …
