This page could really any explanation for what this is? Even the “get started” link provides no real elucidation. Or maybe I’m just an idiot (also very possible).
I’m tempted to ask an LLM to parse this for me, as I don’t think I have the energy; maybe it’ll be able to suss out what it wrote.
> Goes on to explain how they used 3D blender...which wasn't available until 1998.
You conveniently left out the second part of that sentence:
> … modern compiler and a platform abstraction layer.
The author very explicitly laid out their constraints in a bulleted list right below; I think calling this nostalgia clickbait is infelicitous at best.
This sounds like a gross generalization of cyclists—I hope everyone’s friends aren’t this petty! I’ve gone on plenty of rides on an e-bike/not on an e-bike with folks doing the opposite and have never felt ostracized or made others feel ostracized.
As other commenters posted, it gets even more people out on the paths who wouldn’t normally be able to keep up or might feel self-conscious, and I think that’s a really positive thing.
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
The author teaches physics at a college, so I’m not sure why you say this is unrelated? The article is largely about her career path and how she ended up as an author and teacher.
I’m not sure what your definition of “failed” is, but notebooks of various kinds have been bringing value and accessibility to various different programming languages for a while now. If it was a “failed concept” I don’t think we’d see as much adoption, let alone new iterations and advancements in the space.
Just because you don’t use something doesn’t mean it’s not worth something to someone else (or in this case, a lot of people), despite its shortcomings.
Probably for that exact reason—consumers are familiar with the format, and know that something with that particular design is to be trusted—I.e. as a part of some governmental regulation.
For me, memorizing things like this is useful because context switching from flow state → searching something → back to flow state takes time and mental energy, and can derail me pretty easily.