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Obsidian ships with a custom URI protocol that lets scripts, browsers, and phone shortcuts read and write your vault without you touching the app. Here's how the core actions work and where the Advanced URI plugin picks up the slack.

Svelte 5.36 lets you use await at the top level of a component, inside $derived, and in your markup. Here is how synchronized updates, boundaries, and $effect.pending() fit together.

Your card number isn't in your phone. Here's what a digital wallet actually stores, why a stolen token is useless on its own, and why merchants care about tokens for reasons that have nothing to do with security.

Bases handles most vault dashboards now, and Dataview's query language covers the rest. DataviewJS is what you reach for when neither can express the thing you actually want.

Your app already runs in five tabs at once, and they all think they are in charge. The Web Locks API gives the browser a real mutex so only one of them does the work.

For years, whether a token was a security came down to a lawyer's read of a 1946 orange grove case. In 2026 the SEC finally published a taxonomy, and then proposed rules to go with it.

Most people patch around a missing Obsidian feature with a Templater script and a CSS snippet. The plugin API is often the shorter path, and the surface area you actually need is tiny.

Custom elements can be real form controls. Here is how formAssociated, ElementInternals, and setValidity retire the hidden-input hack for good.

Next.js 16.3 stops firing a prefetch request for every link in the viewport and caches one reusable loading shell per route instead. Here's what changes and how to turn it on.