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screenshot of old-style checkbox in Notion, a box with sharp corners

screenshot of new-style checkbox in Notion, a box with round corners

babe wake up, new @notion.com stylesheet just dropped! checkboxes are finally round!

They definitely put something in the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack... I hit play and my burnout disappeared

Virtual award for personal fastest 5K run in 24:45 on 4 August 2025

New PB! 5K in 24:45 😁🏅

TIL it means exclusive access to the device. like when someone "hogs" the mic at karaoke.

screenshot of Apple Developer docs showing an instance property named "allows hog mode"

(inquisitively) hog mode?

let arr = new Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100]); console.log(arr.toBase64()); // 'SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=' console.log(arr.toHex()); // '48656c6c6f20576f726c64' let string = 'SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ='; console.log(Uint8Array.fromBase64(string)); // Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100]) string = '48656c6c6f20576f726c64'; console.log(Uint8Array.fromHex(string)); // Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 87, 111, 114, 108, 100])

ECMAScript excitement 😉

Congrats to @bakkot.com on advancing UInt8Array ↔️ Base64/Hex to Stage 4 at TC39 this week 🎉

UInt8Array.prototype.
toBase64
toHex

UInt8Array.
fromBase64
fromHex

It lets you convert directly between binary data and Base64/Hex strings 👍

1Lab - 1Lab A formalised, explorable online resource for Homotopy Type Theory.

Category theory formalization in Literate Agda 😮
1lab.dev

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio.

going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week.

if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along!

reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

Up-close fish-eye effect picture of cat, prominently displaying her giant eyes and cheeks

Photo of orange-and-white cat sitting strangely on a carpeted floor by the wall

This is what the internet was created for:

Oh, absolutely! When I first saw this reply on GitHub, I thought immediately “I wish this feedback popped up during the RFC process.” It would have really helped us validate the argument, instead of discussing it like a hypothetical thought experiment.

Bringing this up to the timeline bc I think it’s a really great question to ask: “Why does Electron Add Non-standard Features?”

fix: corner smoothing feature gate crash by clavin · Pull Request #47759 · electron/electron Description of Change There was a crash in third_party/blink/renderer/core/css/properties/longhands/longhands_custom.cc from parsing the -electron-corner-smoothing CSS property when the property wa...

Re: Adding Non-standard Features to Electron
github.com/electron/ele...

YouTube video by The Browser Company Dia. Now with a sidebar.

Dia finally has the tab sidebar! 🙌 Since picking up Dia, I’ve been reminded how handy the classic tab strip is when I only have a few tabs open. Now, with the reintroduction of the sidebar, managing a ton of tabs is a much better experience again--no more favicon alphabet soup.

youtu.be/5vexXIjRbyQ

Chart showing the net worth of the AI-managed vending machine business over time, slowly trending downward in steps with a large cliff toward the end, which the caption attributes to selling a lot of metal cubes at a loss

love this experiment because even though Claude has certainly trained on business and economics, it still fails by vending metal cubes at a hefty loss

www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

The list of soundscape choices for the background sounds feature in iOS

Noticed a bunch of new soundscapes added to the background sounds feature in iOS 26 dev beta 2:
• Babble (like coffee shop chatter)
• Steam
• Airplane
• Boat
• Bus
• Train
• Rain On Roof (different from existing Rain sound)
• Quiet Night (different from existing Night sound)

Slack now runs the new Go-powered @typescriptlang.org checker in CI. Using the tool saves us over 5 minutes per run, meaning faster merges and happier developers.

Huge thanks to Anders, @jakebailey.dev, and everyone else on the project for the incredible performance gains.

One critically injured in shooting during 'No Kings' march in Salt Lake At least one person is critically injured after a shooting during the "No Kings" protest in downtown Salt Lake City.A crowd of about 10,000 people marched betwe

kutv.com/news/local/p...

Might be outdated info now, but when the feature first was added, one of the devs said it was a manual list

I love stumbling across posts with my cat’s doppelgängers

Normally I dread having to reach out to support for a mundane task like ticket splitting or merging, but something about knowing I’m not wasting a human’s time paired with the efficiency of the LLM changes that for me.

Had to reach out to airline support for some basic ticket splitting/partial cancellation stuff. I could tell right away that I was paired with an LLM… and it was actually a more pleasant experience than before! Very quick responses, clear communication, and direct problem solving.

Luna, a ragdoll cat sitting on a sidewalk looking very pretty and fluffy! She has no sense of direction apart from not walking wherever her owners tell her to walk

this is Luna!! 🤍

I bumped into her and what I'm pretty sure was a gay couple, heading for a picnic together!

so, statistically, if I include myself, all ragdoll owners (n=3) in the area are lesbians and all lesbians have ragdolls (fact)

It’s a bit annoying that Apple lets you develop your own personal apps for free, but to use it on your personal device requires a $100 annual subscription

A meme that says "you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about" and below it are two images, the top one is the text "(Optional)" and the second one is just an asterisk. Both images are cropped, enlarged, and stretched from the original post's image.

A form text field titled "Personal Preferences" with the word 'optional' in parenthesis at the start. Contradictorily, there is a star next to it and an explicit error label at the bottom that says "This field is required." There is also a descriptive label below that says "How do you pronounce your name?"

is nothing sacred anymore?

me: hey do you wanna watch a scary movie?

demiboy: no, those give me the he/they jeebies

when are they going to add a workout category for playing with your cat

Advertisement from Nintendo that says “Get the Nintendo Switch 2 system + a full game download of Mario Kart World”

the GALL to give me this advertisement when it’s literally impossible to get a switch 2 right now

Oof. I’ve also had similar trouble with agents. I wonder if this issue also affects them with tool-calling turns 🤔

This explains a lot of my bad experiences trying out an LLM on an intermediate task I’m confident it can solve, only to see it struggle after a few turns and repeat mistakes, while claiming *now* it has the correct solution… for the fifth time in a row 😭