On instant gratification versus memory forming in the Internet age: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-25/yes-the-internet-can-make-us-happier
I have fond memories of meeting Internet friends in person, learning new skills, and even games I enjoyed a teen. I'm not sure whether Internet activities are less memory forming.
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It's odd that games often show the hours played, but I've not seen this in other apps.
"You've spent 20 hours talking to this person." Would this be a usage deterrent? If so, why do many games offer it by default?
One cute feature of markdown I'd not noticed before: there's no syntax for images *without* a description (i.e. alt text).
https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#images
I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics.
It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.