Reinventing, rethinking and playing with UI that is just fine already:
https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950
A nice example of creativity in software design, and the value of building things that already exist!
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Learning software development through playing and contributing to a MUD: https://tashian.com/articles/how-i-learned-to-program/
One interesting design choice in Emacs that I haven't seen in other editors: reserved shortcuts.
An Emacs extension shouldn't use F5 through F12, or Ctrl-c LETTER. This lets users configure their own shortcuts. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Key-Bindings.html
Does it exist elsewhere? I miss it in VS Code, where e.g. all the Fn keys are already assigned.
`init` feels like an unhelpful name in OO. It doesn't give you an initial value, it initialises the instance that has already been created. Developers are often surprised that init doesn't return the instance, because they have a strong association with `new Foo()`.
Perhaps `finish` would have been a less confusing name?