Nihil hic deest | Seth’s Weblog

This web page deliberately left clean has an extended historical past.

I believed it was an IBM factor from the Sixties, however I used to be off by a thousand or extra years.

There are good causes for a web page to be clean. Folding signatures, printing processes, having chapters begin on the fitting or the left…

However there are even higher causes to let folks know you probably did it on function. Significantly in a loosely sure guide or a technical guide. Figuring out that the web page isn’t supposed to have one thing on it removes stress and lets the reader acquire confidence that the textual content is full.

In fact, as we race to fill in each second with swiping, browsing and clicking, it’s straightforward to neglect that we’re allowed to depart some clean areas. In actual fact, not simply allowed, but when we need to stay effectively, required.

And it will get even simpler if we announce (to ourselves and maybe to others), that we’ve achieved it on function.

[HT to Andy for the prompt]

[unrelated: Here is a fascinating essay from an insider at Google about the shift in the AI universe. It’s happening very fast. There’s a ton of organizational turbulence, and this might be a moment open source has been waiting for.]