Writing — Page 3

Obsidian 1.14 adds a native kanban layout to Bases. Here's how to build a board where dragging a card rewrites a property, where it beats the Kanban plugin, and where it still falls short.

TypeScript 6 flipped half a dozen compiler defaults and TypeScript 7 deleted the options it deprecated. Here's the tsconfig audit that gets you onto the native compiler without a wall of red.

Pay-in-four loans cost the shopper nothing when things go right, so someone else is paying. Here's how the BNPL money flows, why merchants eat the cost, and what changes as these loans start hitting credit reports.

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.