It’s been incredible to watch Clive’s remove-everything-but-the-punctuation app take off, resonating with so many different communities for so many different purposes about everything from language use to translation to analyzing one’s own writing habits.
https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/1446476370629087237
The tool that makes it go is a beautifully simple @Glitch app, and it’s easy to remix if you want to make your own variation. just-the-punctuation.glitch.me
It also resonates with coders, as programmers of all levels are keenly aware of the significance of punctuation, as well as the vagaries of using code to manipulate text. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=288992…
This is one of the most important and radical ideas that the Glitch community embodies — apps can be social artifacts, things we use to communicate or teach or to explore an idea together. They can mean different things to different communities, like any creative medium.
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