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Obsidian quietly snapshots your notes every few minutes. Here's how File recovery works, how to restore a lost paragraph, and why it still isn't a backup.

Node.js now runs .ts files out of the box by erasing types, not compiling them. Here's what that buys you, what it refuses to do, and the tsconfig that keeps you honest.

Compression Dictionary Transport (RFC 9842) lets the browser tell your server which cached file it already has, so a redeployed bundle can arrive as a few-kilobyte delta instead of a full download.

Staking gets pitched as a savings account for crypto. Here's how Ethereum validators really earn rewards, why the yield keeps shrinking, and what slashing, queues, and liquid staking tokens add to the risk.

Obsidian 1.12 ships an official command line interface. Here's how to use it to capture notes, query tasks and Bases, and run vault health checks from shell scripts.

JavaScript can finally turn bytes into base64 and hex (and back) without the String.fromCharCode and btoa dance. Here's how Uint8Array's new encoding methods work and where they replace the helpers you've been copy-pasting.

Fundamental analysis asks what a business is worth. Technical analysis asks what the price is doing. Here's how each one works, what the research says, and why the rivalry is mostly a category error.

Bookmarks is a core plugin most people use to pin three notes and forget about. It can pin saved searches, headings, blocks, and whole tab groups, which makes the hand-maintained dashboard note redundant.

ES2026's import defer evaluates a module the first time you touch its namespace, not at startup, so you can move heavy work off the cold path without turning half your call stack async.