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 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…
TIL about zmx, which provides session persistence and detach/reattach for shells since Supacode uses it for persistence
TIL that the “stomach flu” is usually a strain of the norovirus, and the technical term for “everything must go” is gastroenteritis
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 kings, 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