I have a theory that developers are more willing to sit and stare at a progress bar than an average person. It's probably conditioning.
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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
It's odd how lazy evaluation is generally seen as a niche design choice, yet the vast majority of languages treat `foo() || bar()` as short-circuiting.
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.