: TIL that the MLB home plate used to be made of cast iron, and they amended the rules to make it foul …
: TIL about ceremonial drinking cacao when I stepped into Maya Moon in SD because I thought it was a …
: TIL about the sponge(1) utility for reading and writing to the same file in a one-liner
: TIL that Rosalina was originally designed to be canonically related to Peach, but that story element …
: TIL more than I wanted to know about inconsistencies between react-native-webview’s Android and iOS …
: TIL - I got to use React Native’s BackHandler API I’m not in the market for a switch to Android, but …
: TIL that there are woodpeckers in my neighborhood. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen one …
: TIL that a softball curveball is equivalent to a baseball sweeper based on their movement
: TIL that the Savannah Bananas stream some of their games live on Youtube. The kids are getting in to …
: TIL that Tanstack Query allows you to hold on to existing data (even across query key changes!) via …
: TIL - saw a first of a kind bug today: an Expo module where the calling a function according to the …
: TIL that Flea (the RCHP bassist) spent 2 years learning to play trumpet and has a Jazz instrumental …
: TIL about Expo’s repack feature. It uses a cached native build, attaches a new JS bundle, and …
: TIL that the state and local tax deduction limits (SALT) got raised for 2025. That’s a …
: TIL about Refugee Net, an org working to help resettle refugees and support them as they come to the …
: You Didn’t Hear This from Me - Kelsey McKinney Finished reading: You Didn’t Hear This from Me (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip by Kelsey …
: TIL that the selective attention test (where you’re challenged to count passes of a ball and a …
: TIL - had my first introduction to opencode.ai today. I’d heard of it before, but tried it out with …
: TIL that seaweed salad is made by rehydrating dried seaweed with water and vinegar. Up until I …
: TIL that if you sent the CSS zoom property to a number with a sufficient number of digits, some of …
: TIL more about Claude skills. In fact, I wrote my first two, for helping me gather context about all …
: TIL that the flag patch on the USA WBC team hat is “backwards” because the reverse …
: TIL about Sofi Tukker. I’ve been asking people what their baseball walk up song would be, and …
: TIL that Apple’s recommended way to change Webview behavior in an app context is to use …
: TIL about the CSS properties zoom and text-size-adjust. I wanted to make a Webview work properly …
: TIL about Fastlane’s Spaceship. Powerful Ruby library for interacting with the App Store Connect …
: TIL that there are a good number of players in the World Baseball Classic who have non-baseball full …
: TIL about the difference between a spiral galaxy and other types of galaxies Thanks to a parent …
: TIL that SNL still throws curveballs at the cast during taping. I knew there were little touches …
: TIL a whole slew of things about the new F1 season and cars during the opening Australian Grand Prix …
: TIL that Rian Johnson is a “crossword fiend.” I too, love a good Thursday, and am …
: TIL that most Golden Retrievers are technically Field Golden Retrievers. A slightly larger, skinnier …
: We should add “what’s your baseball walkup song” to the standard rotation of …
: TIL that Apple documents CSS font rules for supporting Dynamic Type on the web. This may turn out to …
: TIL how to use react-native-teleport - a fantastic library for re-homing views. It’s like having the …
: TIL about Chichen Itza—specifically the pyramid there It’s apparently located in such a particular …
: TIL that Connor Storrie (of Heated Rivalry) hosted SNL last night. In his monologue he mentioned …
: TIL that there’s no leading off in softball Kids are playing both this spring, and it’s been …
: TIL that saffron is the most expensive spice by weight I cooked with it for the first time today. I …
: TIL that “bubba” is common nickname in the American south. For years I’ve assumed that Bubba Wallace …
: TIL about stately.ai — we’re kicking off a project with a lot of screens and states, and I’m more …
: TIL about a kind of issue I just don’t think I’ve ever seen. A package with a release …
: TIL that tonkotsu ramen broth is made from pork bones I had dinner at Menya Ultra in San Diego, …
: TIL that Jacob Elordi is 6’5”. Really helped in Frankenstein where he really is that much taller …
: It's Never Been More Important To Understand The Problem Whether “code is free” or not, it’s clear that code is becoming cheaper, and …
: TIL just how obtuse more basic LLMs can be without complex system prompting I’ve been working on …
: TIL that all curling stones come from only two quarries. Thanks to the Distraction Podcast for this …
: TIL about the Codestral API, while building a tiny code agent. It delights me to no end the …
: TIL that when you use Bun with Expo, it really only acts as a package manager, because you have to …
: TIL about Datadog’s App Builder. I was shocked at the ability to create a widget that could …
: TIL that this year is the Year Of The Horse We had a lovely Chinese New Year party at my …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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 …
: 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