This illusion was new to me. Does whichever dot you look at turn more purple?

Pretty neat how clearly this lets you see the reduced sensitivity to blue light in the very centre of your vision.

https://www.schulz-hildebrandt.com/9-purple-dots-illusion/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582

A great example of how being able to write code more quickly doesn’t translate to business or user value.

While the number of apps in the App Store has exploded given the rise of AI coding tools, the number of apps with 10 or more user ratings is actually plummeting.

The data in this chart is sourced from the paper below.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35275/w35275.pdf

40,3ºC em maio é inferno antes do apocalipse dos meses de verão 🥵

Portugal breaks hottest May day record as Europe swelters in heatwave https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v2yv5207xo

Just learned about „WhatCable" that can read out the e-Marker chips on a USB-C cable and tell you what the cable is actually capable of. https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable

Apparently works via IOKit. How's a UI for that that not a system feature on every Apple device with a USB-C Port?