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.

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