We need an ADHD-friendly variation of Sherlock Holmes

I know I'm biased as a Chinese-Dutch man who is into train infrastucture, but this video may just be the best representation of the Dutch experience ever.

This is how my friend convinced me to get a (budget) smartwatch, btw. It felt gimmicky to me, like I can just open my phone instead of look at my wrist for a more limited experience? He argued that the limited experience is the point. It helps create some distance to the actual phone.

Most notifications do not need an immediate reply, or a reply at all. Seeing them on the watch instead of having to open the phone means a reduced risk of ending up distracted by the portal of horrors.

Same for basic functionality like the clock, alarms, timer, weather, changing songs.

It turns out to really work well for me in that regard. Now if only I could control media controls of the KDE connect app from my smart watch, then I could remote control just about anything in the apartment.

I'm not sharing this because I expect anyone to watch/listen to 2 hours and 12 minutes of semi-confused rambling on a new APL variant, but I just wanted to share how amazing it is that this exists.

Jacob Lockwood is just seventeen years old and made his own programming language. He got into programming in general at the age of eleven during the covid lockdown, got into codegolfing via stack exchange, tried out dozens of golfing languages and array language variants, liked different parts from different languages and then a year ago decided "hey let me try to combine those and explore this one concept more deeply in particular" and made his own language. At *seventeen years old*.

Speaking for myself as an elder millenial, I was already curious about programming in my pre-teens but the first time I had access to decent educational material was my early tweens. The best I had until then was TI-83 basic for my graphing calculator, and GWBASIC for DOS. Now curious kids can just find information about even the most niche of programming hobbies because what's stopping them? Isn't that extremely cool?

(If you do feel like watching, this RSS feed is still somewhat broken with dead links, and this particular episode is almost impossible to follow without the video at https://www.youtube.com/live/L7pttMExil4)