jkoschei

This makes me happy — sounds like some top-notch parenting, and I'm heartened to hear your kids got so into it. I may steal the "exeunt" remark to exit a boring situation...

I loved ZZT! I can't remember which was first for me, that or QBasic, but I have many fond memories of being 8 years old and hacking away on little games. I think I started with both at about the same time, and they instilled a love of code. The idea that you could just type in a few words and make the computer do what you wanted was pure magic to my young brain.

In hindsight, the limitations of ZZT were very freeing — with such a limited palette of options, you couldn't bite off too much more than you could chew, and you had to get creative to make anything work as intended.

My palette has increased since then, but the principles are still the same. I haven't touched ZZT in years, but in a way my career has been built on it.

> The new Friends page to the left of the camera...

> The new Discover page to the right of the camera...

This reads like the manual to an early-90s text adventure.

Help me find some reading material for this evening — post the best thing you've read recently

Sounds like instrumental hip-hop. If you're on Spotify, check out the "Lush Vibes" mood playlist for similar.

No such thing as news without bias — all content reflects the biases of its creators. Even if somehow there were no bias reflected in the article/video itself, there's always bias in which news is presented.

I think the best thing to do is to get news from multiple sources (at least 3). The truth is somewhere in between.

If you were the inventors of bitcoin, you'd've invented bitcoin.