e19 – All the words with Erin McKean

This episode we talk with Erin McKean, founder of online dictionary Wordnik, about her history of processing and analyzing words with NeXT boxes, OS/2, and the Mac. We discuss self-identifying as a programmer, HyperCard qualifying as math, and hardcoded Danish comments.

This episode we talk with Erin McKean, founder of online dictionary Wordnik, about her history of processing and analyzing words with NeXT boxes, OS/2, and the Mac. We discuss self-identifying as a programmer, HyperCard qualifying as math, and hardcoded Danish comments.

Links for this episode:

Erin McKean
Wordnik
Adopt-a-Word
@emckean
erinmckean.com
Erin's talks: TED, XOXO, The Linguistics of JavaScript
on The Setup
Pascal
NeXT computers
Scott Foresman publishing
OS/2
CompuServe
HyperCard
iOS pantry apps
Wordnik's stack: Mongo, Scala, Node.js
Kory Stamper on revising "god"
odd OCR errors in the Google Books corpus
hard copy Wikipedia
the Cupertino effect
Marked by Brett Terpstra
Jason Scott at the Internet Archive