February 2026
: TIL that Giant Sequoias have remarkably shallow root systems. Only 12-14 feet at maturity for a tree …
: TIL that San Diego actually has a healthy fossil record, including it’s own extinct species of …
: TIL that Steven Pastis (of Pearls Before Swine) wrote a series of children’s graphic novels called …
: TIL about superset.sh and tools like it for running parallel agents. This was the week where the …
: TIL about Istanbul, the JS code coverage tool, while looking to add it to a project Fun side fact: …
: TIL that non-profits in the US are (broadly) not required to issue donation statements. It’s …
: TIL that the React Compiler effectively turns all props etc into a useMemo call This makes sense …
: TIL that Seahawk is “a nickname for the osprey because of its talons that are uniquely fit to catch …
: TIL that Ned Brower (who plays Nurse Jesse on The Pitt) is a real life ER nurse! Thanks to The …
: TIL that the center of a curling target is called a “button.” Great way to start this Olympics
: TIL a little bit about Expo Config plugins. One of the apps I’m working on has a decent list of them …
: TIL that emacs has built in quoted-printable decoding: lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/0…
: TIL about the frequent antics of Alice Roosevelt. I’m reading You Didn’t Hear This From Me, which is …
: TIL that Bad Bunny won the Grammy for album of the year. I try to listen to the big Grammy winners …
: TIL about the idea of a Union church, which is an English speaking Christian church in a foreign …
January 2026
: TIL about the red-shouldered bug. We saw a surprising number of them at the pickleball courts, and …
: TIL about the band Four Tet, a recommendation from my friend Geo. Very cool electronic music, …
: TIL about true mirrors, which are specially constructed multi-pane mirrors that are non-reversing so …
: TIL that the first Yeti store was in Austin, Texas. I walked there with a coworker today, and they …
: TIL that the first bridge across the Colorado River in Austin, Texas was a pontoon bridge All my …
: TIL about The Five Dysfunctions of a Team during a managers retreat for work. I’m excited to engage …
: TIL about the process of de-icing a runway I flew into Austin for work today, and landing was …
: TIL a bunch of fun facts about Tapei 101. Some before, some during watching the Honnold climb Most …
: TIL a little bit about dog breed standards. Apparently there is only a 3 inch height window in which …
: TIL the Expo Modules API. I have a thorny problem I want to solve with native webviews, and Claude …
: TIL about claude-chill, a Rust wrapper for Claude Code designed to help with screen flickering. The …
: TIL about the Gemini CLI. I’ve been having Claude code hack at a thorny problem recently, and keep …
: TIL that the Tesla coil was intended to essentially electrify the air around it, such that it could …
: TIL how to play Dutch Blitz. I know I’ve learned it before, but maybe this time will stick I had a …
: TIL that “down”s in American football come from football’s evolution out of rugby. In particular, a …
: TIL some additional crochet stitches, to finish my first Wooble. I had to slip stitch, sew pieces …
: TIL details on how Hotwire Native works. I dug into the code to read about how they share the single …
: TIL about lazamar.co.uk/nix-versi… — an excellent tool for installing specific versions of nix …
: TIL more about Expo Fingerprints for EAS updates. The ability to compare a fingerprint in the web UI …
: TIL that my favorite Miike Snow song, I Feel the Weight, is built around a sample of In Too Deep by …
: TIL about the Lemon Meringue Pothos during a visit to Anderson’s La Costa Nursery. It’s a new …
: TIL that in the NFL, a fumble recovery cannot advance the ball on 4th down. I learned this because I …
: TIL that I should be using Kalita Wave 185 filters with my Origami Dripper, due to the ridges and …
: TIL that there isn’t a good way in Ruby to reach up in a stack trace and interact with the calling …
: TIL about nix-community, specifically awesome-nix and nix-direnv. The latter is a huge QoL …
: TIL there are new pre-built binaries of the Emacs variant I use (emacs-plus). This is a great …
: TIL that NPM’s --ignore-scripts option breaks all pre-and post scripts, even ones defined in the …
: TIL a little bit about Geodes, when we cracked open a couple from a National Geographic set we got …
: TIL my first crochet stitch thanks to a Woobles kit I got for Christmas. Even though I’ve just …
: A bag from the new roaster. Such a cool design
: TIL that there’s a coffee micro-roaster within biking distance. Got a bag roasted this morning by …
: Cool decor at the theater for the Stranger Things finale
: TIL that motocross daredevil Travis Pastrana is an accomplished rally and stunt driver. I guess if …
December 2025
: TIL about Irving J. Gill, the architect behind the Oceanside CA Civic Center. He was known for …
: TIL About Blitzball: a small-scale baseball game that aims to be a modern alternative to Wiffle …
: Finished reading: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 📚 I think Becky Chambers …
: 2026 Goals Share at least one thing to the TIL feed every day. Write at least one proper post per month. …
: TIL: Cy Young did not win the Cy Young award, but he still counts in an Immaculate Grid