Early programmers had to work directly in binary, which meant they were literally writing instructions in the same 1s and 0s that the computer understood. It's kind of wild to think about having to manually translate everything you want the computer to do into that low-level language without any of the shortcuts we have now.

This is basically saying that living virtuously isn't just about doing the right thing once, but about building good habits that make your life better overall. The idea that virtue gets easier with practice makes sense. It's like how any skill improves the more you work at it.

There are also bots that push back against companies or organizations in ways that might actually be justified. Like there's this "Gender Pay Gap Bot" on Twitter that's hooked up to a database of UK companies' pay gaps, and on International Women's Day it automatically calls out any of those companies that tweet about celebrating the day by quote-tweeting them with their actual pay gap numbers.

This is a pretty clever way to protest without getting in trouble. the donkey is just walking around with no idea it's part of a political statement, so you can't really punish it for anything. It's interesting how the protesters split up the different parts of protesting so that the actual messenger (the donkey) has no clue what's going on, while they get to stay anonymous and spread their message.

It’s cool to see how images are really just grids of pixels with RGB values, and even something like microRGB fits into that same idea of breaking color down into tiny components. Thinking about images this way makes them feel a lot less mysterious and more like something you can actually work with in code.

It’s interesting to think about how sound is really just a list of numbers that tell a speaker how to move, moment by moment, to recreate a noise or a voice. Once you see it that way, audio feels a lot less abstract and more like something you can store, edit, and mess with just like any other data.