TIL
TIL that the flag patch on the USA WBC team hat is “backwards” because the reverse presentation is used in battle situations where one could picture the flag waving behind the pole in motion
TIL about Sofi Tukker. I’ve been asking people what their baseball walk up song would be, and someone said Purple Hat.
Turns out they were also the commercial music for the iPhone X
TIL that Apple’s recommended way to change Webview behavior in an app context is to use WKWebView.mediaType which sets a custom CSS @media type for the session.
Video here: developer.apple.com/videos/pl…
TIL about the CSS properties zoom and text-size-adjust. I wanted to make a Webview work properly with device font sizes, and found that I had to reset -webkit-text-size-adjust to auto because most CSS resets set it to 100% (e.g. telling the browser to trust that text is sized correctly for a mobile device)
TIL about Fastlane’s Spaceship. Powerful Ruby library for interacting with the App Store Connect API.
Today I used it to set up automated TestFlight build expiration when a related PR is merged
TIL that there are a good number of players in the World Baseball Classic who have non-baseball full time jobs. What a cool event
TIL about the difference between a spiral galaxy and other types of galaxies
Thanks to a parent teacher conference where we reviewed some homework about our galaxy 🙂
TIL that SNL still throws curveballs at the cast during taping. I knew there were little touches here and there, but I haven’t see anything like Passing Notes or the (seemingly sincerely) interrupted Ryan Gosling monologue
TIL a whole slew of things about the new F1 season and cars during the opening Australian Grand Prix
The most notable thing to me right now is the 50/50 power split. It’s dramatically changed how the cars interact in racing situations, since they can’t go full speed for consecutive straights.
I imagine they’ll adjust the split soon. It reminded me a lot of the 2022 opener where Verstappen and Lceclerc traded places on a series of laps before one of them figured out how to stay ahead
TIL that Rian Johnson is a “crossword fiend.” I too, love a good Thursday, and am willing to go to bat that The Last Jedi was the best of the Star Wars Sequels.
TIL that most Golden Retrievers are technically Field Golden Retrievers. A slightly larger, skinnier breed than the AKC standard
TIL that Apple documents CSS font rules for supporting Dynamic Type on the web. This may turn out to be a compelling feature for some work projects
TIL how to use react-native-teleport - a fantastic library for re-homing views. It’s like having the full power of createPortal in a native context. It’s going to enable some important workflows and features I couldn’t figure out on my own
TIL about Chichen Itza—specifically the pyramid there
It’s apparently located in such a particular alignment that it shows a special pattern only on the equinox
I can’t imagine the design process to build something like that. I was flummoxed earlier today by a 4 minute build step
TIL that Connor Storrie (of Heated Rivalry) hosted SNL last night.
In his monologue he mentioned that 6 months ago he was a waiter. What a cool story, and what a time for hockey
TIL that there’s no leading off in softball
Kids are playing both this spring, and it’s been interesting to learn about what actually separates the two
TIL that saffron is the most expensive spice by weight
I cooked with it for the first time today. I noted, beforehand, that the recipe didn’t call for much, and was surprised by just how little I used (1/4 teaspoon for 2 cups of rice)
TIL that “bubba” is common nickname in the American south. For years I’ve assumed that Bubba Wallace was his legal name
One in a series of perpetual joys working at a remote company and having coworkers all over the country
TIL about stately.ai — we’re kicking off a project with a lot of screens and states, and I’m more compelled than ever by state machines in the AI age
If we can sketch together the states allowed and required, it ought to be a powerful tool for an agent to work against to know if it built the right things
TIL about a kind of issue I just don’t think I’ve ever seen. A package with a release changelog that directly mentions a fix that isn’t in the NPM tarball. I’m sure it’s an easy enough mistake to make, but it was hard to track down because I assumed so assuredly that it couldn’t be the root cause github.com/facebook/…