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For me: Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series including the pre- and postquels

When you're waiting for a Zoom meeting, something to compile, etc., what do you like to do to pass the time?

My habit is to open monkeytype.com and get one or two rounds of typing practice in.

Would love to see if anyone has any other quick productive (or not) activities to do in those passing minutes.

What's the best app you discovered, or rediscovered, in 2020?

Mine is Brief [1], which has been a refreshingly simple way for me to consume news without loads of editorialization. My favorite features:

* each "brief" provides a timeline of events (in the form of other news briefs) leading up to the event that the brief is about, which makes understanding context much easier

* you can text the editor directly from the app

* all sources are immediately available

* the "Verbatim" section provides quotes from leading officials on the subject (senators, AP, diplomats, etc)

* reasonable pricing at $10/month

I am in no way affiliated with Brief and actually discovered them on HN.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brief-just-the-news-you-need/id1475186118

What REST APIs, in your opinion, deserve an award for an admirable quality, be it design, documentation, etc.

For example, I would given an award for documentation to Stripe's API docs (https://stripe.com/docs/api) due to its simplicity and support for their official SDKs.

The more general form of this question is: what are your favorite REST APIs and why?