TIL
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 amaranth.” I thought it was a grain! But we actually eat the seeds
TIL a little about OpenAPI documents. We have an upcoming project that will require multiple Rails apps to return compatible search results, and I think an OpenAPI spec will be the right way to document/enforce the contract
TIL that Jest automatically spins up threads to match core count, but counts the physical cores even inside a VM with access to only a few. As a result, we were getting OOM killed in CI. The fix was to set --maxWorkers=2
TIL — had a bunch of my lifting form corrected by a friend. I wasn’t squatting low enough, and squats are now much harder 😅. On the other hand, I was holding the bar wrong for bench presses, and those just got much easier!
TIL that Octopi shed an entire layer of suckers each day, and if they live in a tank everything needs to be cleaned out
Thanks to a visit to the Bellingham Marine Life Center
TIL (kinda) how to stand up paddle board. I’ve tried it once before and fell quickly. This time I managed to actually stand and navigate around. I still found I preferred the stability of being on my knees when speedboats were chopping it up
TIL that Bellingham, Washington was historically logging country. And specifically, that a meaningful amount of Scott paper products used to come from there
TIL about the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Seattle
It’s wonderful to see a city move towards a more human centric waterfront. What a beautiful place
TIL more than I wanted to know about expo-secure-store and keychain access. The default setting is to only be accessible when the app is foregrounded, so if any API access tokens are in secure store, you’re blocked from background requests, even by accident (actions queued/triggered during a background)
We’ve needed to make a broad migration to after_first_unlock to keep things workable
TIL that the largest comeback in NBA Finals history is 29 points
I don’t even know who I’m rooting for. I just love the game 🏀
TIL that dry eyes can contribute slightly to vision deterioration. My vision is going again after lasik 4 years ago, and my optometrist recommended daily eye drops to slow the progress
TIL - had my first real interaction with Linear Releases. I think it’s going to be wonderfully powerful for helping us manage our release pipelines
My first gripe is that if you don’t provide and explicit name, Linear defaults to calling any version “New Release” in the UI. I can’t guess why the version code itself isn’t the default
TIL the word “Chiasmus”. Thanks NYT Crossword
TIL about GIS, as a subset of mapping technology and data management
Happy college graduation to my cousin 🍻
TIL about “the sting” when hitting a baseball. Apparently if you hit outside the sweet spot, it’ll hurt your trailing hand. Turns out my contact is good and my form is bad 😅
TIL that React Native’s fetch implementation will sometimes persist cookies from server responses, but it’s not considered reliable. More importantly for me, if you don’t want to involve cookies at all in your requests, credentials:omit is also considered unreliable
I was working through a bug where a certain API endpoint was redirecting in a way that didn’t make any sense until I realized it was detecting stale cookies and treating the request as a partially authorized HTML request 🤦
TIL (re-learned) that backticks after an identifier count as a function call in JS. I needed it to solve a clue on lyra.horse/fun/jscro…