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Interesting! This way of structuring & evaluating a program seems analogous to how spreadsheets work, but with a hierarchical instead of a tabular data model. I could see it being helpful to new programmers for building intuition about how code works.

And translating a program's execution into sound and being able to hear changes sounds really fun.

It still won't display in Safari. I wasn't familiar with WebP but it sounds like maybe Safari just doesn't support that format at all: https://caniuse.com/#search=WebP

Awesome! (For some reason, the demo gif doesn't display for me in Safari, but I can see it in Chrome/Firefox.)

I feel like this sort of thing could really be an essential tool in teaching programming. I've been working on a somewhat similar project for visualizing execution of javascript code (but it works by instrumenting the code, rather than interfacing with a debugger, so that it can all be done in the browser), which I'm hoping to release soon.

I'm so sorry you're dealing with this.

About a year ago I resigned from a ~9-year job due to burn out (relationship issues and the death of my father were major contributing factors). I had put the decision off for a long time because I thought I should have a concrete plan first, but ultimately decided I'd never have the energy to plan next steps until I'd taken a long time off to recuperate.

So I just left. The time off hasn't fixed everything, but it has been enormously beneficial to me and I'm much more excited and optimistic about the future. I don't know how the gap will affect my career but at least now I feel like I have the energy to deal with whatever obstacles I encounter.

I was very privileged to be able to do that and I know your situation may differ; I don't have practical advice on dealing with financial concerns. But make sure you're sharing your feelings and getting advice from people around you, and - if you can keep your needs met - don't stay in an unbearable situation just from fear that something as good or better won't come along in the future.

Good idea :)

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Sadly we're not informed what happens if you program a robot to press the button at fixed intervals unless it observes a flash.

nitpicking: "allow you build websites" rather than "allow you to build websites" looks like a typo to me (which is an unfortunate first impression)