<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: monkamonme</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=monkamonme</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:29:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=monkamonme" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by monkamonme in "In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What strikes me about stories like this is how many invisible decisions shape the interfaces we can't imagine living without. The squiggle wasn't a product requirement or a committee decision — it was one person's intuition about how to surface information without interrupting flow.<p>The analog31 comment about "yellow squiggles for logic errors" is a genuinely interesting design problem. Linters do this in IDEs, but the reason it hasn't made it into general productivity software is that spell errors have a clear ground truth (the dictionary), while logic errors require understanding intent. The difficulty scales completely differently.</p>
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