The room of my house that I use as an office did not receive much sunlight from the window that faces a brick wall. I recently had a skylight installed and wow, it's been life changing. I don't even need a light on anymore during the day. I highly recommend installing a skylight to add more natural light to a room if it's possible.
I'm a web dev by day so playing around with Unity has been really fun. Having to consider time, i.e. what does everything like at time t=0, t=1, etc., adds a new dimension I don't get it my day job.
It's not programming but playing around with Blender has been really fun too.
I worked at Wal-Mart in Canada for seven years when I was younger and during the summer, when I worked more hours, I would see the department managers and the upper level store managers do it every morning during the week. Wal-mart really pushes the idea of winning. Everything is about being the best at generating profit and beating the local competition into submission. The location I worked at completely destroyed a Zellers, Eatons, Bi-Way and possibly others that I'm forgetting.
I worked in the electronics department and my manager had the discretion to price big new movie releases below the competition (he would actually check out the competition himself). We had a line that snaked through the entire store for days when Titanic came out since we had the best price for a large radius. Having the best price on an item would be something that would be mentioned during the morning meeting and would be something everyone in attendance would get excited about.
I saw this tool mentioned recently along with the release of https://github.com/ExOK/Celeste64 . It's mentioned as a tool that was used during Celeste64's development so it's clearly not just for Quake engine based games.
I tried enabling this recently and I immediately noticed that websites started appearing in light mode instead of copying my system settings and displaying in dark mode. It seems like in it's efforts to make my fingerprint the same as everyone else's Firefox stops telling websites about my display settings. The issue immediately went away when I changed the setting back to privacy.resistFingerprinting = false.
This has been the trend lately for games that are multiplatform.
It's better than making 100M copies that contain the PC version, 100M copies that contain the Xbox version, etc. and then having them sell at different rates and having 3-5 different SKUs.
Last.fm has a special place in my life since I actually met someone I was quite fond of through the site. I kept seeing her profile pop up as someone with similar musical tastes. I noticed we lived in the same city so I sent her a message. We corresponded back and forth for awhile, eventually met and then dated for a few months.
My friends and I have had a LAN party every year for the last 20+ years. Usually around Christmas or early the following year.
Since the pandemic hit we moved them to be online over Discord and I'd say that they've been just as fun as the in person ones. There are obviously pros and cons but given we're all much older now and many people have moved away I doubt we'll ever have an in person LAN again.