1. I have always loved learning things, both big and small.
2. I enjoy trivia competitions.
3. I'm interested in human memory more generally.
4. I think that spaced repetition software could be a lot better, and I'm trying to make such software. So when I study, I'm also getting the value of using and improving my own software.
That's the idea. If you're like most people, you are going to work for a long time still, so you might as well look for enjoyable work. You might not find a perfect job, but at least something that you can tolerate for a long time.
Generally speaking, if someone specifies "TypeScript," I expect the type system to be the interesting part of the writeup. Otherwise, it could say "JavaScript."
(It could say "React," but still, the interesting part is that you built a scraper/visualizer, not that it used React.)
The scripts he wrote to pull the data were written in TypeScript, though all the TS I see is in the parameters in the function signature. Also he used Next.js for the dashboard
I think the GP's point was that the part of the article that's most interesting is the investigation into how the DMV's plate system works. The fact that Typescript was used is incidental (of course this could have been done in pretty much any language), and it's an odd choice to include the language choice in the article title.
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