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This is amazing: <https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app>

"It feels like during the last ~30 years food &amp; cooking have become culture in a way more similar to music (food is the new rock!) Are we in the early stages of seeing millions of folks start to make their own software?" (<https://twitter.com/noahchestnut/status/1231982830827139072>)

&gt; In a better world, I would have built this in a day using some kind of modern, flexible HyperCard for iOS, exporting a sturdy, standalone app that did exactly what I wanted and nothing else.

&gt; The exhortation “learn to code!” has its foundations in market value. “Learn to code” is suggested as a way up, a way out. “Learn to code” offers economic leverage, a squirt of power. “Learn to code” goes on your resume.
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&gt; But let’s substitute a different phrase: “learn to cook.” People don’t only learn to cook so they can become chefs. Some do! But far more people learn to cook so they can eat better, or more affordably, or in a specific way. Or because they want to carry on a tradition. Sometimes they learn just because they’re bored! Or even because—get this—they love spending time with the person who’s teaching them.
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<@UJKKBAMLL> This article, and this excerpt in particular, feels like a counterpoint to your messages about Roblox and (if I followed correctly) whether they can play a role in helping kids learn to code in a way that helps them make money.

<@UCUSW7WVD> where does that quote about food and rock music come from? I didn't see it in the blog post or tweet (unless I missed it in my crazy jump-around style of reading blog posts at 2am)

It's further down the thread on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/noahchestnut/status/1231990339004592128>