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TIL that Imogen Heap composed the music for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Notably, it sounds like it could have come directly off of Speak For Yourself
TIL that most of the cost of renting a U-Haul comes from the mileage charges. I’ve never actually rented a U-Haul, and I always see them advertised on the trucks as $19.95/day. Turns out that $20 truck is $150 if you drive it 70 miles 🥴
TIL that there’s a known issue with react-native’s built in Pressable components potentially not receiving press events when inside any kind of native element (e.g. a header). For some reason this seems to rear its ugly head most often on the iPhone Xs. That’s where our team saw it, and what this issue points to.
Chasing this bug down has been a bit of a light bulb moment for me in terms of how difficult it can sometimes be to wrap your head around a native bug. Why does this issue seem to effect the iPhone Xs? Why not the iPhone X? Why not later phones with the same viewport and notch? Sometimes there’s just… things that happen on native devices and I lack the intuition and insight to deeply understand why
TIL that there are 90 players in this World Cup who were born in France, but only 26 are playing for France. That’s a remarkable statement about French football culture
TIL that Sentry allows for seemingly unlimited custom attributes on errors, and those custom attributes can be used to filter issues. That allows for much more meaningful segmentation of issues, and understanding how certain attributes affect error rates
TIL - Expo’s Repack is back on the table for us. They recently implemented fastlane’s ios_signing_use_source_app_entitlements option so we can successfully repack for internal builds. This can lead to a huge improvement in “build” times. I recently saw one as short as 2 minutes
TIL that the Mexican National soccer team has lost only three matches in their Mexico City stadium since it opened over 50 years ago
This is largely credited to elevation. It was interesting to consider the severity of the elevation, since I’ve heard lots of chatter about the elevation affecting F1 races there too
TIL that magnesium is the element that burns bright white in fireworks. Credit to a coworker who has history running professional fireworks shows
TIL just how small space capsules can be. We went to the San Diego Air and Space Museum today, and they had models of a couple of the capsules that were first into space. They’re mostly set up for kids to play with because the real one was barely big enough to hold an adult. I can only imagine how lonely, frightening, and intense it would have been to be there
TIL that in Linear, even though labels can be team specific, you can still create a workspace view that takes all team labels into account. This makes for a powerful way to organize cross-team work without having to reach for workspace customizations
TIL - cooked a pork butt for the first time. I don’t buy a lot of meat, so there are lots of normal-ish things to cook that are still new to me.
I enjoyed the process! Just salt and pepper, in the oven for 8 hours at 250, and it was delicious!
TIL - follow up to last Monday: the Linear API exposes everything we needed to write a custom version that much more reliably links our PRs and issues.
I’ve never shipped GraphQL to production, so I’m learning a lot about how to read and interact with it in this process
TIL - re-learned to always round your numbers when doing layout math. You don’t want a layout engine making that decision for you
This specific lesson brought to you by an infinite re-render loop where successive renders yielded image sizes that were off by one pixel at a time
TIL that proper deloading is important when lifting. I had to take some time off because of a hand injury, and when I came back I could lift close to what I’d done before, but my legs are so sore after I’ve almost tripped a couple times 🤦
TIL how to start a charcoal grill. I’ve been around it many times, but this was actually the first time I had to do it by myself.
Enjoyed a great camping trip this weekend with my sisters and cousin
TIL that Love Island is filmed and aired on only a 24 hour delay. I’d basically never heard of the show before, but I was flabbergasted by the explanation on this episode of The Distraction
TIL that it’s really easy to accidentally bork Sentry source maps for a React Native project, and if you do, you’ll send yourself on a wild goose chase 😵💫
TIL — had some brand new pain around how hard it can be to reproduce errors on mobile apps. I’ve spent so long accustomed to being able to get a complete picture of a user’s state by observing the DB that it’s straining for me to wrap my head around mobile debugging. I feel like I have muscles that need to be strengthened and stretched around how I even think about what data/state I might need to reproduce certain issues
TIL that the new Siri might be good. I was able to have it analyze two CSV files for discrepancies and it found them!
It was a perfect use case for me, since they were bank transaction records. Not something I want to upload to OpenAI
TIL that the linear releases CLI only considers the git log when connecting issues. This means things like PR descriptions and connecting issues directly from the app don’t count. It’s pretty surprising behavior to have something fully connected in the rest of linear and have one ecosystem tool not “see” it at all