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[rob dezendorf @robdezendorf]

1/ STOP paying for CLAUDE CODE and API CREDITS

use an ai code editor powered by Chipotle's customer support bot instead.

Introducing Chipotlai Max — OpenCode but with a hardcoded burrito-brain. Does Pepper 1 write sloppy code? yes. but it's flavorful.

[Golan Levin @golan]

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of @p5xjs skeleton fonts: https://t.co/ox8XL7MarO #mediaArchaeology #typography #creativeCoding

[Bihan @bihanmahadewa]

300,000+ suppliers added to the living map of american industrial capacity.

https://t.co/nzgUqJCchY

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your cat is leaving a chemical on your face. Its name is F4. The translation is “you’re family,” and cats only leave it on people and animals they trust. F4 was identified in 1998 by a French researcher named Patrick Pageat.

Pageat found five different chemicals coming out of glands on a cat’s cheeks, chin, and forehead, and labeled them F1 through F5. F2 has to do with mating. F3 is for territory, and cats use it to mark furniture and door frames. (You can buy a synthetic version of F3 at any pet store, sold under the brand name Feliway.) F4 is the social one. The face-rub itself has its own name too. Scientists call it bunting when face hits face, and allorubbing when the whole body gets involved.

F4 builds what researchers call a colony scent. In a wild cat colony, the cats rub against each other constantly until they all smell the same. The shared smell works like a family ID. Cats with the colony scent don’t fight each other. Cats without it get treated like intruders. A study of feral cats at Church Farm, run by biologist David Macdonald, found this rubbing made up 15.7% of all social interactions in the colony.

Cats are picky about who gets F4. They reserve bunting for individuals they bond with. A stranger walking in won’t get bunted, even if they try to pet the cat. A new cat being introduced to the home won’t get bunted either. Furniture and walls get F3, the territory chemical, not the social one. Bunting comes out only for the social bond. When your cat plows its face into yours, you’ve been chemically classified as family.

The behavior comes from kittenhood. Kittens rub their faces on their mom as a greeting and as a way to beg for food. Adult cats keep the move and redirect it at the people and animals they bond with. When a cat rubs its face on yours, it’s doing the same thing it used to do to its mother.

In feral colonies, this rubbing flows in one direction, and the direction reveals status. Cats on the edges of the group rub toward cats at the center. Lower-status cats rub toward higher-status ones. Kittens rub toward the adults that raised them. The pattern is consistent enough that researchers use it to read social status in the colony. So when your cat plows its face into yours, the gesture also says “you’re the one with the food and the warm bed.”

[sui ☄️ @birdabo]

A JAPANESE DEV BUILT AN APP THAT SHOWS A FAT CAT ON THE SCREEN AND FORCES YOU TO TAKE A BREAK.

[kato norihiro @katoget]

昨年作ったコケクーラーで、ヒカリゴケ、ばっちり育ったっす。
こんなにモサモサ育つともう光らないんですが、成長途中の時は光をキラキラ反射して綺麗なんですよ。でもモサモサもかわいいのですきです。

[Aircorridor @_aircorridor]

Recent research has revealed that a significant portion of GEO satellite traffic is still transmitted in cleartext, enabling interception of sensitive communications with relatively affordable equipment.
https://t.co/ZxuhHCBdBI

[josesarmientohinojosa Ⓐ☭ 🇵🇸 @xzetaprobe]

*cough, cough*
https://t.co/7hAAF8mStx

[NASA @NASA]

Even in darkness, we glow.

In this image of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, we can see the electric lights of human activity. In the lower right, sunlight illuminates the limb of the planet.

[cemaxecuter @cemaxecuter]

🚨“See through walls” without WiFi.
Iridium L-band: 1–6 dB through walls, 2–4 dB foliage.
Add micro-Doppler + multi-sat CIR → passive detection with just an SDR.
No TX. Satellites do the work. 🤯
https://t.co/EUTGh350R8

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[FreeCAD (CAD+CAM+CAE) @FreeCADNews]

#FreeCAD v1.1 has been released!!! Thx to everyone that worked, tested, triaged, donated etc. to make this happen! Spread the word, RT please 🙏
Announcement: https://t.co/h0I5IuvhNo
Release Notes: https://t.co/Op9SRKhOqv
https://t.co/wrmGt1w9sc
#FLOSS #FOSS #3DCAD #CAD #CAM #FEM

[Damian (COMMS OPEN) @Daamianski]

frog mouth helmet

[✒️ @Literariium]

“And I get jealous of a stranger, who may see your eyes by chance, and fall in love with them.”

— Nizar Qabbani

[MECHANICAL MAGNIFICUS @CALVINGINEERING]

These are EPMs, the electromagnet’s better relative that nobody’s ever heard of.

They require ridiculously little power to operate and can stay on or off EVEN WITHOUT POWER.

Here are 3 simultaneously powered by only 2 camera batteries, capable of lifting up to 80lb/36kg… each.

[NC Scout @Brushbeater]

https://t.co/LIfpmMbsKa

[Tom Dörr @tom_doerr]

Reverse-engineers wireless protocols with software defined radios

https://t.co/FH8nUzfnFh

[4nzn @paoloanzn]

https://t.co/v9yXU9kK2E

[ReccePost @ReccePost]

@spikesguides https://t.co/KtRjer6LsT

[Spike @spikesguides]

I'm putting together a team