I've heard it as "my hobby is finding new hobbies".

I call it hoarding tools and am a major offender. I buy all the tools and kit to do the hobby, then lose interest

It's definitely odd that someone who allegedly wrote a complete compiler in Python would describe something that is obviously Rust syntax as Python-like.

I totally agree. "Python-like" was a bad choice of words on my part. I meant it more in terms of learning curve and explicitness, not the surface syntax. Structurally its more like C/Rust and I should have said that from the start

Could you tell us, did you, or did you not, use "AI" in creating this project?

Yes, I used AI during development. I treated it as an assistant for explanations, brainstorming, and occasional small code snippets. The language design, compiler architecture, semantics, and the majority of the implementation were written and decided by me

It seems like there's a lot still to see about how these work and interact, but from initial impressions I don't see these outshining Spark Blocks, a recent kickstarter that my 9 year old son is having tons of fun with: https://www.blockandcode.com/

It was "good old games", then they announced that good old games was going away and after everyone panic-downloaded their whole collection they announced that they weren't going anywhere but they were just going to be GOG without it standing for anything.

GOG marketing team at the time: "Now we do a little trolling".

That was after they had new releases for a while.

And these talking points are always framed as if coal mines and oil wells occur naturally and there is nothing unsightly or unhealthy about them.

I could see this being really useful for editing lists that are longer than the page. The example that immediately comes to mind is reordering a playlist on YouTube Music, which currently requires dragging to near the screen edge and trying to convince the list to scroll while you still hold on to the item you're trying to move.

Yessss this exactly! Moving songs up/down in large playlists would be fun with this concept. I wish that was a thing for music apps.

It looks like rainfrog has branched out from just postgres, but still doesn't cover the range that sqlit does.

I don't know what the state of the art is, but 3D printing circuit boards is a thing people are doing: https://all3dp.com/1/3d-printed-circuit-boards-pcb/

I got excited but "people" here does not really refer to hobbyists I suppose (please contradict me)

My understanding is that home etching is probably still more practical and neither of those are going to match professional quality, but conductive filament and the "print everywhere except where the metal goes and then add metal" options should both be in reach of the upper end of the hobbyist sector.

Reminds me of https://scaleofuniverse.com . I think confining it to just living things removes the perspective of "Wow, we're really small compared to the rest of the universe".

There is another visualization from the same author, that starts at an astronaut and ends with the observable universe https://neal.fun/size-of-space/

Somewhat related!

https://youtu.be/XRdh8gmVR90?si=PvgoXrgjV62tsUy6

Just want to say that I appreciate you maintaining this list. It's one of those things I need to do every now and then, so having a place that gives me a current summary of the options is very handy.