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sporklon Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?

There have been a couple attempts, the term is "adaptive pure intonation." Check out the list at https://en.xen.wiki/w/Adaptive_just_intonation .

Also want to plug my own project, Pivotuner: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/projects/pivotuner/ . I believe it gives more flexibility and control to the performer than the others on that list. It's not publicly released yet (hopefully soon), but (anyone) feel free to email me if you're curious to try it out!

sporklon Translating a Visual Lego Manual to a Machine-Executable Plan

I think LEGO used to have a publicly-available CAD which could give the building steps, given a model.

sporklon Ask HN: It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about programming?

I personally would recommend How to Design Programs[0] as a starting point, then whatever technologies are best-suited for particular interests after that

[0]: http://htdp.org/

I'm guilty of this, but it's far to easy to spend too much time jumping between different technologies and programming languages and only learning the basics. So it's nice to have a concrete project in mind, so you can choose an established tool for that kind of project and not get lost with anything else until the project is done.

sporklon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/

Simple profile site, with pages for various projects and the like, nothing particularly interesting.

Suggestions welcome!