

My dad first showed me QuickBASIC when I was 6. I didn’t understand the concept of syntax as distinct from semantics at the time but I was still able to learn it.


My dad first showed me QuickBASIC when I was 6. I didn’t understand the concept of syntax as distinct from semantics at the time but I was still able to learn it.


OsmAnd: This map application is popular enough that it probably doesn’t need mentioning, but good golly is it a powerful tool. Great options for downloading maps and having them offline, and while the car navigation might be missing one or two key features that you’d expect from proprietary alternatives (like live traffic), the sheer amount of detail that has been crowdsourced is mindblowing. There are a wealth of trails and cycle routes, low level details like park benches, bridges, and lookout spots, and the various map profiles you can build are very customizable. I’m personally a huge fan of the trip recording plugin for tracking all my hikes, runs, bike rides, canoe trips, and even swims.


Oh hmmm geee, I wonder what language it’s built with 
Jk I friggin love Rust, great to see more projects like this
My favourite thing to do is hike or run a trail and track it in OsmAnd, and then go update the trail to make it more precise or up to date with changes since it was last added in.