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Another release, another platform logo full of little easter eggs:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/02/the-first-beta-of-android-17.html
Now that I'm helping my kid with her physics homework, it's handy to be able to type some basic math symbols on my phone, thanks to this:
https://github.com/DenverCoder1/latex-gboard-dictionary
It's a list of mappings from TeX-style symbol notations to Unicode that you can import as a personal dictionary into Gboard, which will then suggest the actual symbol ∞ when you type \inf and the like
⌨ Importable dictionary for typing math symbols more easily on your Android phone by using keyboard shortcuts inspired by LaTeX - DenverCoder1/latex-gboard-dictionary
Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Macintosh System 7.5.
It was a fun project, the people involved were a pleasure to work with, many of whom are still friends today.
The infamous MacUser Eddy award-winning “System 7.5 Sucks Less” t-shirts even had their 15m of fame.
To our surprise, it seems that one of the easter eggs we hid in that release still has not been discovered.
Now live in open source, my favorite ~100 lines of code I've written in the last few years:
Now that #Android15 has been pushed to AOSP, I can show you a small detail in the updated easter egg:
As an homage to our new code-flagging system, the lander now plants a cute little flag wherever it lands. But as you can see, this new-flag feature is itself implemented behind a feature flag! It's called FlagFlag:
So, with yesterday's launch, the lander landing-flag flag launch has landed.
Just wanted to flag that.
Alex Rosenberg
David Saff