TIL
- Deal 4 cards face down to each player, placed in a square grid
- Look at the lower 2 cards
- Each player takes a card from the draw pile, looks at it, and may choose to swap it with any of their cards
- Upon discard, any player may discard a card of the same value. Only the first player discards. Other players keep their cards
- If the player misremembered their card value, they draw two new cards face down
- For a 7, you may look at one of your face down cards
- For an 8, you may execute a “blind swap” where you trade one of your cards for an opponents without looking at them
- For a 9, you may execute an “open swap” where you pick one of your cards and one from an opponent, and look at them to decide if you want to make the swap
TIL that it’s customary to play very loud electric guitar and offer people jello shots at 7AM during the Rock N' Roll San Diego Marathon. Incredible party vibes for a full marathon route
TIL about “Red”, a variation of Golf/Cabo. I can’t find references to it online, so I gather it’s a mismash of house rules.
Goal: have the least points at the end of the game
Setup:
Gameplay:
Special cards:
7-9 cards have special effects, but only if you draw and discard one on the same turn. (e.g. discarding an 8 from your face down cards doesn’t count).
Triggering the end game:
Any player may trigger the endgame by calling “Red” on their turn (they do not get to draw/discard this turn). After this, every other player plays one turn, and then all players reveal their cards and score.
Scoring:
All cards are worth their regular value (A-K = 1-10). The only special value cards are red kinds, which are worth negative 2
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 localization (making it work across locales within a single language)
I haven’t yet worked on a production code base that implemented anything beyond currency localization. Helpful to grow my vocabulary before that day comes
TIL about colleagues that are experimenting with “no AI days” as a tangible strategy for growing and keeping fundamentals sharp. I think the idea has legs, in some form, picking things where you want no AI involved
TIL that beavers will dam anything they can find, with anything they can find. Thanks to this adorable video of a rescue beaver damming a hallway with stuffies
TIL that Strawberries are the only fruit who bear their seeds on the outside
We had a lovely visit to the Vista Strawberry Festival today. Great street food, great community, great city
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 themed kids birthday parties, and teaching elementary kids to play cricket was an excellent twist on the theme
TIL that oxlint has --format=github built-in. It’s so cool to have annotations work out of the box without a bunch of ceremony/setup or custom actions required
TIL that <footer> automatically has the contentinfo role. I thought you could use footer for any metadata on the page, but the “landmark” concept suggests that it should really only be used once per page
TIL — had my lifting form corrected for the first time at the gym. It was a positive experience overall. I can tell I look like I don’t know what I’m doing. Turns out you’re supposed to set the bench press bar near your full extension height
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 got a Junior Ranger pin!
TIL that William Faulkner never finished college. Related: that Ole Miss is in Oxford, Mississippi. So now I have to go back through every time anyone in my life mentioned Oxford and wonder if they meant the University of Oxford, or the University of Mississippi 😵💫
TIL that Fenway park is the oldest active MLB stadium, constructed in 1912, and with many original elements still in place.
We went on a tour as part of a visit to Boston, and I would pleasantly surprised by how many fun facts and general baseball history I learned.
TIL that airport lounges are maybe not all they’re cracked up to be? I had a chance to go to my first one, and all I found was a salad bar, barely less crowded chairs, and some cold brew on tap. It was definitely nice, and I was grateful to have access, but I’m definitely not champing at the bit to pay for regular access
TIL about limitations with the expo/ui bottom sheet detects. We wanted to lean into expo libraries for some bottom sheets, but are currently diving into true-sheet for native sheets
TIL most barcode scanners are programmed by scanning barcodes of special codes. I don’t know exactly why, but it really tickled me