TIL
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
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