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by ZeWaka 486 days ago
I came across the new CSS logo and thought the color looked about right (it's rebeccapurple), and ended up reading Eric's blog as a result.
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Eric Meyer's blog post about why it should be called 'rebeccapurple' - see https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/
>For almost twelve hours, she was six

This is an incredibly poetic, heartbreaking statement.

a late tl;dr (more background for the above quote):

     "...A couple of weeks before she died, Rebecca informed us that she was about to be a big girl of six years old, and Becca was a baby name.  Once she turned six, she wanted everyone (not just me) to call her Rebecca, not Becca."
Devastating and beautiful