: TIL that Imogen Heap composed the music for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Notably, it sounds …
: TIL that most of the cost of renting a U-Haul comes from the mileage charges. I’ve never …
: TIL that there’s a known issue with react-native’s built in Pressable components …
: TIL that there are 90 players in this World Cup who were born in France, but only 26 are playing for …
: TIL that Sentry allows for seemingly unlimited custom attributes on errors, and those custom …
: TIL - Expo’s Repack is back on the table for us. They recently implemented fastlane’s …
: TIL that the Mexican National soccer team has lost only three matches in their Mexico City stadium …
: TIL that magnesium is the element that burns bright white in fireworks. Credit to a coworker who has …
: TIL just how small space capsules can be. We went to the San Diego Air and Space Museum today, and …
: TIL that in Linear, even though labels can be team specific, you can still create a workspace view …
: TIL - cooked a pork butt for the first time. I don’t buy a lot of meat, so there are lots of …
: TIL - follow up to last Monday: the Linear API exposes everything we needed to write a custom …
: TIL - re-learned to always round your numbers when doing layout math. You don’t want a layout engine …
: TIL that proper deloading is important when lifting. I had to take some time off because of a hand …
: TIL how to start a charcoal grill. I’ve been around it many times, but this was actually the first …
: TIL that Love Island is filmed and aired on only a 24 hour delay. I’d basically never heard of the …
: TIL that it’s really easy to accidentally bork Sentry source maps for a React Native project, and if …
: TIL — had some brand new pain around how hard it can be to reproduce errors on mobile apps. I’ve …
: TIL that the new Siri might be good. I was able to have it analyze two CSV files for discrepancies …
: TIL that the linear releases CLI only considers the git log when connecting issues. This means …
: TIL that it’s possible to build a CVT bicycle. I didn’t order this model, but had fun researching it
: TIL that Duolingo teaches chess. I can immediately tell that this is going to hook me
: TIL that quinoa is “not a grass but rather a pseudocereal botanically related to spinach and …
: TIL a little about OpenAPI documents. We have an upcoming project that will require multiple Rails …
: TIL that Jest automatically spins up threads to match core count, but counts the physical cores even …
: TIL — had a bunch of my lifting form corrected by a friend. I wasn’t squatting low enough, and …
: TIL that Octopi shed an entire layer of suckers each day, and if they live in a tank everything …
: TIL (kinda) how to stand up paddle board. I’ve tried it once before and fell quickly. This time I …
: TIL that Bellingham, Washington was historically logging country. And specifically, that a …
: TIL about the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle It’s wonderful to see a city move …
: TIL more than I wanted to know about expo-secure-store and keychain access. The default setting is …
: TIL that the largest comeback in NBA Finals history is 29 points I don’t even know who I’m rooting …
: TIL that dry eyes can contribute slightly to vision deterioration. My vision is going again after …
: TIL - had my first real interaction with Linear Releases. I think it’s going to be wonderfully …
: TIL the word “Chiasmus”. Thanks NYT Crossword
: TIL about GIS, as a subset of mapping technology and data management Happy college graduation to my …
: TIL about “the sting” when hitting a baseball. Apparently if you hit outside the sweet spot, it’ll …
: TIL that React Native’s fetch implementation will sometimes persist cookies from server responses, …
: TIL (re-learned) that backticks after an identifier count as a function call in JS. I needed it to …
: TIL about zmx, which provides session persistence and detach/reattach for shells since Supacode uses …
: TIL that the “stomach flu” is usually a strain of the norovirus, and the technical term for …
: TIL that it’s customary to play very loud electric guitar and offer people jello shots at 7AM …
: TIL about “Red”, a variation of Golf/Cabo. I can’t find references to it online, …
: TIL the term chador, as I work slowly through Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
: TIL the difference between internationalization (making software that works across languages) and …
: TIL about colleagues that are experimenting with “no AI days” as a tangible strategy for growing and …
: TIL about mapfiles. I love it when Claude teaches me a new Bash trick
: TIL that beavers will dam anything they can find, with anything they can find. Thanks to this …
: TIL that Strawberries are the only fruit who bear their seeds on the outside We had a lovely visit …
: TIL that a distinguishing characteristic of Midol vs a plain painkiller is caffeine as a diuretic
: TIL the briefest, simplest version of the rules of cricket. I’ve been to a number of Harry Potter …
: TIL that oxlint has --format=github built-in. It’s so cool to have annotations work out of the …
: TIL that <footer> automatically has the contentinfo role. I thought you could use footer for …
: TIL — had my lifting form corrected for the first time at the gym. It was a positive experience …
: TIL that Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States
: TIL about the battle of bunker hill. Had a lovely visit while walking the Freedom Trail, and even …
: TIL that William Faulkner never finished college. Related: that Ole Miss is in Oxford, Mississippi. …
: TIL that Fenway park is the oldest active MLB stadium, constructed in 1912, and with many original …
: TIL that airport lounges are maybe not all they’re cracked up to be? I had a chance to go to …
: TIL about limitations with the expo/ui bottom sheet detects. We wanted to lean into expo libraries …
: TIL most barcode scanners are programmed by scanning barcodes of special codes. I don’t know exactly …
: TIL about the Shai Hulud attack design. Absolutely fascinating how the attackers were able to get …
: TIL that Detroit style pizza was originally made in motor oil drip pans This thanks to a …
: TIL how to use a slip stitch to start a crochet chain. I didn’t do it well, but it’s …
: TIL that the origins of yogurt are unknown I understand there are so many reasons why we might not …
: TIL that Android emulators support setting a custom DNS server via a `-dns-server’ flag, but you …
: TIL that on Mac OS, Android emulators are—by default—not hardware GPU accelerated, which can cause …
: TIL that Math.hypot exists in the JS standard library. I don’t know anything about geometry, …
: TIL that Android emulators support setting a custom DNS server via a `-dns-server’ flag, but you …
: TIL how to use the Expo ScreenOrientation library. The setup was a little bit odd, because I …
: TIL that outdoor sporting events in Florida must stop at the sound of thunder, no matter how big or …
: TIL about the Levitt Bloc Music series which has live performances right around the corner from my …
: TIL that my guess about how much I could bench press was way off. I’ve never lifted before, and just …
: TIL that Expo EAS Workflows now support catching App Store connect webhooks
: TIL that my favorite childhood dark ride, Kingdom of the Dinosaurs at Knott’s Berry Farm, closed …
: TIL that the conventional commit spec includes a ! modifier for breaking changes
: TIL that apple-app-site-association info takes somewhere between 3-7 seconds to load on initial app …
: TIL that a weight bar typically weighs 45 lbs. I’m sure this is largely common knowledge, but …
: TIL that whale carcasses may explode after the body is overwhelmed by continually growing bacteria …
: TIL that there are a number of attempts to implement a UITableView bridge for React Native. It …
: TIL about about jj (jujutsu) for version control. I’ve heard about it here and there, but I …
: TIL what the heck RAG (retrieval augmented generation) actually means. Thanks to a great talk by …
: TIL — I think I got an explanation of the Ralph Loop that I actually understood from a presentation …
: TIL — I had work reasons to do a lot of doodling on my iPad this weekend for a Keynote presentation. …
: TIL that Budapest is a compound word: a combination of Buda, west of the Danube, and Pest to the …
: TIL the word “retroject”. It’s uncommon (the iOS keyboard autocorrects to retrospect), but refers to …
: TIL about expo-av and why it was deprecated. We have an app that’s using av and needs to migrate to …
: TIL - I had a reintroduction to the Interface Segregation Principle in object oriented programming I …
: TIL all about how Websockets close, and specifically that Firefox sends a CloseEvent when the user …
: TIL about the fontkit NPM package. Extremely cool to be able to take characters from a font and turn …
: TIL about the complex and wonderful world of Audio Description from this episode of Hyperfixed It’s …
: Watched Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind tonight. Wonderful movie. TIL that Miyazaki wrote it as a …
: TIL that the Artemis II crew had unprecedented visibility on the far side of the moon during their …
: TIL about Wendy Carlos, a pioneer in synthesizer music, who helped Bob Moog develop the world famous …
: TIL about Expo Custom Builds, which are triggered by, but meaningfully different from, EAS …
: TIL that you can “move” Expo router stacks up into the root easily by re-arranging the …
: TIL how to gather crash reports from another iOS device and resymbolicate them. I also re-learned …
: TIL that cats have 18 claws, because they have 5 on each front paw + 4 on the back 2 If I had known …
: 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