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I'm Bob Nystrom.

I worked at EA for eight years. I wrote "Game Programming Patterns" (gameprogrammingpatterns.com) and "Crafting Interpreters" (craftinginterpreters.com). I work at Google on the Dart language. I'm into programming languages, music, UX, software architecture, electronics, cooking, and lots of other stuff.

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> Meta has to know that millenials and younger are giving up on their platforms, they have endless internal data showing it, right?

Facebook is dwindling, but Instagram is still thriving.

> I was astounded hanging out with my friends in person last weekend how every one of them at some point pulled out their phone mid conversation to watch TikTok, or Wordle, or whatever.

To kill time, sometimes I watch those random "America's Funniest Videos" type videos where it's some random family at home and something funny/weird/etc. happens. I've started noticing that in almost all of them now, everyone is just sitting around staring at a phone. Sometimes an entire family will be in the living room, three on a couch, each in their own little world.

Even my family does the same. It's a very very hard habit to break. Like smoking, except anti-social where smoking was at least social.

Related: TikTok has a "heating" feature that can make a video radically more popular: https://archive.is/8YYcH