TIL
TIL the briefest, simplest version of the rules of cricket.
I’ve been to a number of Harry Potter themed kids birthday parties, and teaching elementary kids to play cricket was an excellent twist on the theme
TIL that oxlint has --format=github built-in. It’s so cool to have annotations work out of the box without a bunch of ceremony/setup or custom actions required
TIL that <footer> automatically has the contentinfo role. I thought you could use footer for any metadata on the page, but the “landmark” concept suggests that it should really only be used once per page
TIL — had my lifting form corrected for the first time at the gym. It was a positive experience overall. I can tell I look like I don’t know what I’m doing. Turns out you’re supposed to set the bench press bar near your full extension height
TIL that Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States
TIL about the battle of bunker hill. Had a lovely visit while walking the Freedom Trail, and even got a Junior Ranger pin!
TIL that William Faulkner never finished college. Related: that Ole Miss is in Oxford, Mississippi. So now I have to go back through every time anyone in my life mentioned Oxford and wonder if they meant the University of Oxford, or the University of Mississippi 😵💫
TIL that Fenway park is the oldest active MLB stadium, constructed in 1912, and with many original elements still in place.
We went on a tour as part of a visit to Boston, and I would pleasantly surprised by how many fun facts and general baseball history I learned.
TIL that airport lounges are maybe not all they’re cracked up to be? I had a chance to go to my first one, and all I found was a salad bar, barely less crowded chairs, and some cold brew on tap. It was definitely nice, and I was grateful to have access, but I’m definitely not champing at the bit to pay for regular access
TIL about limitations with the expo/ui bottom sheet detects. We wanted to lean into expo libraries for some bottom sheets, but are currently diving into true-sheet for native sheets
TIL most barcode scanners are programmed by scanning barcodes of special codes. I don’t know exactly why, but it really tickled me
TIL about the Shai Hulud attack design. Absolutely fascinating how the attackers were able to get both package publish access and design something that spreads past the first attack surface
TIL that Detroit style pizza was originally made in motor oil drip pans
This thanks to a Mother’s Day lunch at Gibroni’s in San Clemente
TIL how to use a slip stitch to start a crochet chain. I didn’t do it well, but it’s always fun to learn new techniques. I was working on a leaf on a peach stem
TIL that the origins of yogurt are unknown
I understand there are so many reasons why we might not have a great record of how certain foods were introduced, but it’s truly wild to me to acknowledge that a food we currently produce with carefully selected bacteria in 110 degree vats was just something they knew how to do thousands of years ago. It breaks the brain
TIL that on Mac OS, Android emulators are—by default—not hardware GPU accelerated, which can cause lock ups and long waits while interacting with them
I assumed it was just a limitation of my laptop, but after getting a brand new one and having the same issues, I did some productive digging this afternoon
TIL that Math.hypot exists in the JS standard library.
I don’t know anything about geometry, but a coworker opened a PR that used it to do some animation math, and it was cool to be able to ask an LLM to explain what that function was accomplishing in that context
TIL that Android emulators support setting a custom DNS server via a `-dns-server’ flag, but you can’t configure the port.
That’s a problem because MacOS runs Bonjour on port 53 (the DNS port). So you can’t use a Mac to act as a custom DNS server for an Android emulator
TIL how to use the Expo ScreenOrientation library. The setup was a little bit odd, because I didn’t immediately know I needed to remove the default orientation setting in app.json, but once that was done, using the APIs has been fairly straightforward, and my working demo is smooth
TIL that outdoor sporting events in Florida must stop at the sound of thunder, no matter how big or expensive.
This thanks to the F1 race that got moved up a couple hours to run fully before the rain started