currently in my Shopify developer era! created a small Shopify App that allows a merchant to create a UNIQUE QR code for a specific product when scanned, the customer is taken to either the product / checkout page ! 👨🏾‍💻 what other features would a merchant want? hmm🤔

it’s kind of funny to me that stressed out is as popular as it is cause millions of people heard “my name’s blurryface and i care what you think” without context and went what the hell, sure

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

“All addictions are a low level search for God.” - Carl Jung

splice fucking kills me cos you can just internally record your audio on chrome or inside your daw to completely bypass their credits system lmaooooo

This picture appears on my timeline every so often. It’s a perennial crowd pleaser I think the reason is not only because of the scale, but more because of how this ship captures something fundamental about economies in the developed world have changed since the industrial era Neighborhoods and towns like this were dominated by a single industry. The work they were engaged in was tangible, physical, visceral. You could see the progress of a given project on a day to day basis. You could tell if the industry was prospering, or whether times were hard. In a way, these were like medieval cathedral towns, with the factory instead of a great religious edifice at the center of all activity. Today is very different. There’s no central locus in most places. Work has fragmented into a thousand different facets. Much of it has gone virtual. There isn’t a single overarching story that can be told, one that ties everything together

the path to enlightenment with work is realizing you aren't special and the work isn't special. this actually is the only path to doing something that is special you're clacking away at a laptop sitting in an air-conditioned room. you are not grinding. you are not lazy, you are not procrastinating. you are not winning. you are not behind. you are not really anything except moving your fingers. there is no right way to do it or wrong way to do it. the gates arent real, even if the gatekeepers wish you would think they were. you are allowed to do things without the right credentials your credentials also dont matter at the deepest level. work is quite simple. you are moving things around and transforming them. bits, atoms, or emotions. its all just work. changing a diaper is no different than typing at a keyboard is no different than turning rocks into diamonds enormous suffering could be avoided if people let go of the idea that the purpose of a human life is some imaginary path of achievement. just do stuff you feel called to do. you're allowed to do it well. or lazily. or randomly.

It’s crazy how most people use their 20s to build a career, but if you grew up in chaos, you basically spend those years just trying to survive the aftermath of your upbringing. It's like you're not even at the starting line yet bc you’re still repairing the track.

you deactivate insta and ppl think you want to kill yourself

this is insaneeee. So cool!

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Vercel just dropped the React bible as a Skill you can use in Claude Code Install it with a single command: npx claude-code-templates@latest --skill=web-development/react-best-practices --yes Link: aitmpl.com/component/skill/r… Done ✅

crazy

doctor: you have one month to regain the mobility of a child me:

haven’t logged into my tech Twitter since foreverrrrrr. What’s up in the world of front end? What problems need solving nowadays?

i think people can get a bit disconnected from reality after being here too long i got airdropped like $6K USD just for hanging out as a user do you know how much $4K USD is? where else can you get $2K sent to you for free just for being there show some gratitude

do any of my tech friends use blender? I want to edit a 3D model I've seen on SketchFab looking to edit the text on the screen.

8 hours of quality work is a lot when I still had a job, an 8-hour workday was more like 1.5 hours of real work the amount of inefficiency that big companies are willing to accept is insane

discovered this library earlier and added it to an app I'm making, so smooth! i wonder if there is a feature that generates a random emoji onClick? couldn't find it if so

does anyone here have experience with API monetization?