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I've worked on apps with really cute custom spinners. They can add a distinct vibe for the app. It's a high risk strategy though. If any part of your system starts running slowly, users develop ban associations with the spinner. I prefer default spinner designs these days.

The text file describing leap seconds is delightful. It starts with comments explaining the comment syntax, and builds from there! https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-2018a/leap-seconds.list

Really cute introduction to Smalltalk programming from 1983. It starts with an explanation of mice and "scroll menus" (scroll bars), then shows cross-referencing code, lints, autofixes, and inspecting instances of newly defined objects! https://youtu.be/JLPiMl8XUKU