examples: specific software, a notepad and a pen, or favorite mental techniques so you never forget your to-do list...
iconoclastic examples: "none", "this assumes i'm productive"
notes in comments
as an exercise: assume that one choice cannot cover all of the bases. Leave 2 behind, pick one.
Example: Achieving a specific award, working hard at a job every summer, finishing a really thick book on your lunch breaks
examples: specific types of workout, reading breaks, workday habits
...whether you work a very loose schedule or a tighter one.
examples: specific activities you enjoy, getting out of the house, lazy time reset, doing nothing for once, etc.
Example: history book about a certain period, a specific type of comic book, etc.
Examples: Walking, running, swimming, lifting heavy iron, specific martial arts, hiking
Counterexamples: Lounging, scrolling
please share your favorites if applicable.
totally unremarkable or boring products absolutely OK!
personally i was a stationery blogger for a while, and i love to try different pens and pencils
"Damn it, man! That was our ride! You just stunned our ride!"
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2026 Theme: Welcome Youth Olympics – Together, Move with Wushu, Shine with Wushu Spirit" (迎青奥，共起武，展风采
This year marks a historic milestone for wushu – this October, wushu will make its official debut as an official sport at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games!
Examples: Reading books on paper, using older operating systems or file formats
Made for personal use, very simple app that helps with tabletop role-playing games. Source code in comments.
(A quick note on my brilliant typo in the post title, because Reddit titles are like compiled Pascal binaries: no runtime edits allowed. So: "You CAN run those..." anyway...)
Just wanted to share this tip in case it's helpful for anyone:
(Mainly focused on Linux here, please chime in if you have tips for other OS's)
The fpc compiler package for Free Pascal includes "instantfpc," which allows you to run your Pascal programs as scripts.
This means you can run your Pascal source code files directly as if they were system scripts, without compiling them every time.
You simply type #!/usr/bin/instantfpc at the top of your script, and then add the Pascal code below that.
When it's time to run the script, be sure to mark it as executable with chmod +x your_program_name.pas and you can run it by typing ./your_program_name.pas
Going even further, if you'd like to play with the old Turbo Pascal tutorials or books from the '80s or '90s, you can add this line:
>#!/usr/bin/instantfpc -Mtp
...which invokes instantfpc using the Turbo Pascal compatibility mode.
In the screenshot above, you can see the tutorial program "demo_of_fun_text_manipulation" from 1996. It was pasted into Geany from the original tutorial without modifications.
Next it was run as a script inside a Linux terminal (Konsole in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed).
Output screenshot:
https://www.friendlyskies.net/images/885.png
The program invokes the "crt" unit and works just fine.
You can find the tutorial here (scroll down): https://jnz.dk/swag/TUTOR/0017.PAS.html
The other tutorials are here: https://jnz.dk/swag/TUTOR/index.html
Silver Pascal Coder has also posted a great video on instantfpc here: https://youtu.be/kVKXEU3kr5k
Just posting in case it's fun or interesting - or if anyone has other tips to share.
(Screenshots: Code in Geany; Script running in Konsole)
