It's interesting to me that Debian has this image of long time between releases. Mint for example is based on Ubuntu LTS which releases every 2 years, but I haven't seen the same jokes about Mint.

Italic with a two-story "a".

Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. I trust their design decisions.

I like linux nerds.

One time I told my friend who teaches macro economics that I found a math thing difficult. He answered "I also find math hard, especially when they mix numbers into it." and I had one of those "we are not the same"-moments.

If Sephora ever decides to make their own operating system, I hope they base it on Fedora. It kind of rhymes, and has a similar scent.

Ken Thompson famously said "if you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there", but it remains an open question if "goto sephora;" should still be considered harmful.

In "The UNIX Programming Environment" from 1984, mail is described like this:
"Sending mail to someone is straightforward. Suppose it is to go to the person with the login name nico.
$ mail nico
Now type in the text of the letter
on as many lines as you like...
After the last line of the letter
type a control-d.
ctl-d
$"

I tend to think in terms of 1 function that is meaningful for composability. The point in having small tools is that they can be combined in new ways, not just small programs for its own sake. To me it makes sense if you think of Unix itself as both the IDE and the system carrying out the purpose of the machine. We've gradually moved away from this though.

I'd trust servers that have been around for a couple of years and have a significant amount of active users more than the ones that pop up and disappear. Preferably maintained by a team with routines and stated policies. That said, there are no guarantees.

In a way, the non-slop trend is like the early Arts and Crafts movement which in its time reacted to the industrialization of that time. Slop being the modern version of soulless mass produced cheap stuff. Is this a fight we humans will always have with technology?