There’s an old article from the developer of NetNewsWire ( reader) that questions the idea of the unread count. You can’t read all the unread — so why entertain a time consuming mythos around that number?
It applies everywhere — What narratives might people create around the
programming language %
numbers on GitHub? Do they waste
time thinking/fretting about their mythos? Fun to think about.
![GitHub’s Language Savant GitHub’s Language Savant](https://micro.thedroneely.com/m/tdro/media/tdro-messages-lurk-c194beea.png)
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