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A NASA astronaut has captured an electrifying image of Earth from space, featuring a gigantic, jellyfish-shaped "sprite" of red lightning shooting upwards above a thunderstorm in North America. The rare phenomenon is still poorly understood, despite being studied for more than 30 years.

Image credit: NASA/ISS/Nichole Ayers

livescience.com/planet-earth/w

#NASA #Space

Food 

Cilantro + cumin + garlic + tomato has got to be the most goated combo. Obsessed lately.

I've been playing the original cookie clicker lately and I keep getting this intense urge to automate it with a basic script that'd choose which items to spend cookies on next based on the current costs/payouts of all the buildings and upgrades. Sadly I have to actually get work done :P

Its not just some purity thing. It's much more about reducing cognitive load everywhere I can on the web. When I see underlined text (ideally some shade of blue) I know I can click that to show a different thing. All the behavior is something expected.

This goes for buttons & forms. Being clever and doing things differently than every other website just makes people have to think about what they're interacting with, even if only for a split second. That's not innovation, it's unnecessary friction.

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It's amazing how many ways English lets you politely express "Go fuck yourself".

Low key wanna make a streaming parser thingie in Rust where the gimmick is that I take slices for the tokens instead of allocating strings ir w/e. Nothing to use it for in the short term sadly 🤷

I just learned that #Codeberg only receives 350€ per week in donations at the moment. If you like #FOSS and/or you use Codeberg.org, consider donating. Its not GitHub backed by Microsoft, its a non-profit dedicated to providing great service for developers.

Anyone know of tools kind of like but instead of keeping the AST in memory they do streaming parse / search on the fly? I'm not a huge fan of masssive memory use and it feels like we're leaving performance on the table by parsing entire files/folders instead of just enough to get to what you want.

Maybe instead of an AI I should just run all these MCP tools myself since they seem to clean up a lot of interfaces for you. 🤪

Kinda neat that we're in the "people getting cyberpsychosis from AI" part of the cyberpunk dystopia novel.

There's still a lot of things we can improve but I'm thankful to get to be Canadian.

Maybe once I get my glasses prescription updated and get some higher priority expenses sorted out :P

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I don't need a new screen I don't need a new screen I don't need a new screen. Unless... 😈

@alcinnz it's the lede that resonates with me: we're not developing for readers and viewers, we're developing for developers who don't want to touch actual HTML and CSS, who don't even want to touch JavaScript. They want to stay in their TypeScript fortress where normal people are not allowed.

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