miniblog.

I'm amused (and kinda surprised) to learn that shells have their own equivalent of blink tags, a blink escape code! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17439482/how-to-make-a-text-blink-in-shell-script Seems equally annoying, I can't see a good use for it.

I rather like how Scheme treats boolean literals (#f and #t) as syntactically distinct from normal variables. The syntax feels tidier than overloading variable names. (Though I'm still amused that 0x12 is a valid variable name in emacs lisp!)

I'm amused to learn that many MUSHes have a notion of in-game currency used to pay for compute: https://github.com/pennmush/pennmush/blob/master/game/txt/hlp/penntop.hlp#L794 This very much predates Ethereum or AWS Lambda pay-per-API call!