Hot Jupiters‌: Gas giants orbiting stars ‌10x closer than Mercury‌ – “year” = days.

Design

this is beautiful - sigma bf point and shoot

this is beautiful - sigma bf point and shoot https://www.sigma-global.com/en/cameras/bf/

years ago i learned (thank you, oatmeal) about mantis shrimp and how it can perceive 12* different color channels and i am not the same person since

for comparison, we, humans, can only perceive 3 channels (red, green, blue)

what do the other 9 channels look like?

🤷‍♂️

*— it actually varies from 12 to 16

I got really into this recently too. Not the shrimp per se but how animals experience the world differently than us. It led me to Jakob Johann von Uexküll and his book A STROLL THROUGH THE WORLDS OF ANIMALS AND MEN 

He invented their concept of Umwelt: that all species have their own understanding of the world shaped by their sensory and perceptual capabilities. 

“Often translated as "self-centered world," the term highlights how organisms, despite sharing the same physical environment, can inhabit distinct perceptual realities” 

His book explains umwelt through showing you different animals’ umwelts: ticks, humans, fish, birds, insects, dogs… exploring different perception and sensory abilities along the way. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Johann_von_Uexk%C3%BCll

His ideas have gone on to have application in computing and cybernetics. What a great rabbit hole

how do they know it can perceive that many color channels?

eggs

How many minutes do you boil your eggs for??
I boil mine for 12

Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/23/l1l2future.html

Everyone in crypto who justifies all the support this industry has given to purchasable politicians by claiming they’re all equally corrupt should watch this whole interview.

teddit

when i was training with the national team, we lived and died by this mantra:

“if you’re early, you’re on time.
if you’re on time, you’re late.
if you’re late, you’re fucked.”

the entire team would have to do sprints if anyone was late. 

insane for me to fathom that 10 minutes late could be a norm.

Frontend

Reply with a screenshot of some /frontend code you wrote this week 👇

Books

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion 

Mark Twain effusively reports on Bermuda. 

If you have an hour and change to read today, just skip my review and read it yourself:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3182/3182-h/3182-h.htm

I’ve never been to Bali, Vietnam, or Greece, so take it with a grain of salt. But in my opinion, Hawaii is the king of island experiences and Bermuda is the queen. 

Mark Twain would probably not object too strongly, if this short book is to be believed. 

It gives you a charming tour of a charming island, at a charming time. It’s every bit as funny as the rest of his work, but Bermuda manages to take some of the acerbity out of even Twain. 

If you’ve been to Bermuda, definitely read this. If you’ve never been, definitely read this and then visit Bermuda. 

This is the last of my Mark Twain travel book reviews, so I want to reiterate: these books absolutely slay. If you like Twain, Bryson, or Barry, don’t sleep on them. 

Five stars.

Life on the Mississippi 

Mark Twain recounts his experience as a riverboat pilot. It’s mostly memoir, but it’s also part travelogue since the job is necessarily mobile. 

I read this last because I thought I would like it less than the travel books. The opposite proved true. 

He clearly knows and loves the technical minutiae of piloting, the Mississippi, and its denizens. This is what he wrote just before Huck Finn, and his writing is in top form. 

Five stars.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

if this doesn’t prove that it’s just the same pool of money sloshing around, then i don’t know what will

the literal president of the United States dropped a coin 

problem with identity politics is that it’ll have you fade general wealth because you don’t like him or Solana 

everything you wanted just not exactly how you wanted it

Literally me. I don’t like trump nor Solana but goddamn I need a come up 

Sidelined tho, alas.

Left: Aella, 2023.
Right: noemamag, 2025.

Tomorrow will bring something new, so leave today as a memory.

d/acc: one year later

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html

He kept telling himself that one day it would all somehow make sense.

Swinburnee

@swinburnee