Lol, you know the lore

Salvador Dali - Corpus Hypercubus

Yes! That’s exactly the inspiration.

Thanks!

I was actually wondering if this could be packaged. At least AUR should be doable.

Great question! Yes, Backbone appears twice.

First, it’s artistic license. I think the Backbone.js school is the “backbone” of our current front-end era, for better or worse. So, it fits that the backbone of the hyper-cubical cross is represented by Backbone.js (twice). Spoiler alert: The cover art’s meaning becomes clear around the halfway point on the book, if you’re curious.

Second: Yeah, that was a “happy accident” by genAI. To be fair the first $50 that gets donated for this book on my Kofi link go directly to commission a real artist for a cover remake.

That’s “Backbone” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone.js)

It was the hot front-end framework before Angular (and React).

The podcast source transcript has more context. Apparently “him” was whoever was in charge of MSBNx, an unrelated, Bayesian Network thing, which Bill Gates was also obsessed with.