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The author provides an update on porting Godot to the iPad following the WWDC 2024 conference. The surprise revelation was Apple’s release of FinalCut Pro for the iPad, inspiring the author to make significant UI improvements to mimic FinalCut Pro’s design. Striving for a touch-first experience, the author revamped various controls, toolbars, and menus in […]
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Summary: The author explores the inner workings of the clipboard, focusing on the web clipboard APIs and their limitations. The async Clipboard API restricts data types to text, HTML, and images, while the older Clipboard Events API allows for more flexibility. Surprisingly, Google Docs uses execCommand(“copy”) to write custom data types to the clipboard, bypassing […]
The {fmt} formatting library is praised for its minuscule binary size compared to other alternatives like IOStreams and printf, achieved through strategic use of type erasure. It offers full runtime type safety, catchment of format errors at compile time, and efficient call handling, especially for positional arguments. Recent optimizations, including the use of the Dragonbox […]
In 1915, at the age of 37, Einstein completed his theory of general relativity, proposing that everything is a deformation of spacetime. Despite his failure to develop a unified field theory combining space, time, energy, and matter, he attempted to interpret elementary particles as solutions to his equations. Einstein even explored the idea of matter […]
In September 2024, at a YC event, Brian Chesky delivered a talk that left a lasting impact on attendees, causing many successful founders to reconsider conventional wisdom about running larger companies. Chesky argued that advice to hire good people and give them autonomy was misguided, citing Steve Jobs as inspiration for a more effective approach. […]
In 1982, engineers came up with the Inogon Leading Mark, a clever solution to guide ships into a harbor without using any electronics. The Inogon light makes use of the moiré effect, creating an optical illusion of arrows that change direction based on the angle they are viewed from. This unique use of distortion in […]
X is currently banned in Brazil, leading many users to flock to Bluesky, an alternate social network. Bluesky is experiencing record-high activity, causing potential outages and performance issues due to the influx of users. The platform functions similarly to X but is decentralized and built on the AT Protocol developed by Bluesky. Developer Paul Frazee […]
Summary: Scanning helium microscopes (SHeM) have been developed over the last four decades, using low-energy helium atoms to image surfaces that are difficult to image with traditional electron and ion microscopy techniques. Various technologies, such as focusing atoms using crystals and diffraction from zone plates, have been used to achieve high spatial resolution. A new […]
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of “little red dot” galaxies that appear to have an unusually high density of stars, challenging our understanding of galaxy formation. These galaxies are so tightly packed with stars that it is unclear how they exist without collisions. Astronomers are puzzled by the existence of these bright […]
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