On the importance of pre-populated inputs in apps designed for consumers to create games: https://boingboing.net/2015/08/24/a-game-making-app-for-everyone.html
This principle probably applies to a ton of other domains too.
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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?
I'm surprised by how many different weather forecasts I can get out different apps. Surely there aren't many API providers for weather predictions?
Alternative conspiracy theory: do weather apps that predict nicer weather get more downloads?
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.