I make good faith attempts to pass things like Franklin and Kennedy half dollars to younger folks in my life, while explaining some of the facts around them, hoping it plants a seed, much like when I was young.
Enthusiastic numismatist here. I’ve noticed during my time in the hobby, many fellow enthusiasts are (often older) ex-software engineers. I have wondered why that is. My best guess would be that the “science” of grading is relatively complex and fascinating.What are your thoughts on the current state of the hobby? How do you think we can appeal to younger folks to get in to coin collecting,...
Something fun I did with the contribution graph a couple of years ago. Lets you play Conway's Game of Life (sort of) with the graph. More crowded contribution graphs make for slightly less interesting generations. You can enable/disable cells if you'd like.
It's kind of strange how the query 'penatagon google' returns pages of uniform results, only articles containing variations of 'Google won't renew Pentagon contract'
I dug up a crappy, incomplete text adventure I made almost 6 years ago today. It was meant to be Fallout-like. I look at the main "Class" and chuckled at the overly procedural/non-reusable style of it. It makes me feel a little more confident in my current skills.
If you wanted to see the code: https://github.com/ryanml/PostApocalypticArizona
It's far from perfect, but I hope it provides you some temporary enjoyment :3 (It should work okay on mobile, but since snake by nature is precise it is a little more difficult)