Spent the last few months reading about neuroscience. I realized I didn't understand how dopamine works. Now that I do, 2 points:

- the human brain is incredible in its adaptability
- the environment around phones and social media is the hardest it's ever had to work

The increasing number of websites with no RSS feeds sadden me. =|

https://inessential.com/2025/05/24/retirement_and_netnewswire.html

As a devoted netnewswire user since 2005, I am genuinely excited for @[email protected]'s retirement. I also wish him nothing but incredible health and pure happiness in pursuing his coding ventures. <3

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/953b658a-579b-4b3c-b280-43b3781babf3 lovely idea to provide a NotebookLM notebook for the Google IO announcements. Sadly, that mind map is not the best.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.labs.language.tailwind

Google released NotebookLM as a standalone app on Android with iOS "coming soon."

I love notebooklm. This is exciting. #notebooklm

My shocking discovery today - almost any app on ios and android can programmatically take a screenshot without you, the user, ever knowing.

What’s this new silent addition to location permissions you’ve defaulted to “on” apple?

#apple #privacy

The iPhone 17 Air looks a lot like the Nexus 6p, even more than a pixel IMHO. #iphone #nexus6p #android

TIL: Zen phones home far more than any other browser. I don’t think it is nefarious, but phoning home is resource consumption. Go with degoogled chromium / Orion / Tor if you really care.

https://sizeof.cat/post/web-browser-telemetry-2025-edition/ #browser #chrome #zen #orion

These days, my favorite dopamine hit is to vibe code my own local chrome extensions to do simple things. This one is to get a specific archive of the current url. #chrome #web

https://particle.news/share/_1bZS where winds meet also has a fascinating premise and excited to see where this heads

#gaming