I haven’t read all of the post yet, but there are some good comments from the author here on how his thinking evolved:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39204314
It has links to this video, which I watched a few years ago. Back in 2014 I kinda abandoned a side project to implement Macaroons (after about a week, it wasn’t very serious), and I was glad that someone tried it for real!
GopherCon 2018: Tess Rinearson - An Over Engineering Disaster with Macaroons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFv62qz8RU
Background from a few years ago: API Tokens, a Tedious Survey https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/#macaroons
https://lobste.rs/s/irh204/api_tokens_tedious_survey
I can’t help but be that guy and share this article about the difference between macarons and macaroons: https://www.thespruceeats.com/difference-between-macarons-and-macaroons-435337
I think you mean this picture
It should have the letters āēīōū on it.
This is gold!
I also definitely think of Macron every time I see either word, and have to spend some non-zero amount of effort remembering the difference.
I still get them confused due to the sheer popularity of the former as a pastry being pronounced like the latter. Thanks for the link!
The way I remember it is macaROONs feels reasonable to say with a very strong Texan-American accent, like
Let’s have some macaroons, y’all!
And the other one is French.
I haven’t read all of the post yet, but there are some good comments from the author here on how his thinking evolved:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39204314
It has links to this video, which I watched a few years ago. Back in 2014 I kinda abandoned a side project to implement Macaroons (after about a week, it wasn’t very serious), and I was glad that someone tried it for real!
GopherCon 2018: Tess Rinearson - An Over Engineering Disaster with Macaroons - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZFv62qz8RU
Background from a few years ago: API Tokens, a Tedious Survey https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/#macaroons
https://lobste.rs/s/irh204/api_tokens_tedious_survey
I can’t help but be that guy and share this article about the difference between macarons and macaroons: https://www.thespruceeats.com/difference-between-macarons-and-macaroons-435337
I think you mean this picture
It should have the letters āēīōū on it.
This is gold!
I also definitely think of Macron every time I see either word, and have to spend some non-zero amount of effort remembering the difference.
I still get them confused due to the sheer popularity of the former as a pastry being pronounced like the latter. Thanks for the link!
The way I remember it is macaROONs feels reasonable to say with a very strong Texan-American accent, like
And the other one is French.