April 17th 2026 - Interesting Finds

Playdate - handheld console for making and playing games

You can find a catalog of games here. Duke University uses it to teach Game Design.

Android CLI update to work with agents

Agentic development has motivated a lot of tooling to update their usage experience to be compatible with the new development paradigms. This reminds me of how major cities started making improvements to their roads and infrastructure to support autonomous vehicles locally; incentivizing the migration of higher net worth individuals.

Humans have an accelerated region in their brains

HAR1A is segment of the human genome unique to humans and differs from other primates. It plays a major role in neurodevelopment.

This comes into development during the 7th and 18th week of fetal gestation.

Stage - AI code review tool

This tool lets you use AI to group PR changes in a logical way so you can more easily understand what they do.

Useful for big changes but since this is a closed source company I question where the moat is. What's stopping someone from duplicating this functionality?

I asked the creator this question and their response seemed to ignore the core of the issue:

I think we're really focused on making the overall review experience as guided and obvious as possible for the human. Chapters is a great start but we're coming up with more ideas on how we can make the process even easier.

Built in function to expand .emacs.d directory

This is useful because we don't know where the Emacs directory will be on another user's machine and even if we know where it is on our own machine we don't want to hardcode it in case it changes.

(expand-file-name "some-file.el" user-emacs-directory)

How to insert emojis in Emacs

You can select an emoji from a list by using (insert-char) with default keybinding of:

C-x 8 RET