Hey friends,

We're all headed to Viget26 this week! I love working remotely, but I also love seeing people face-to-face instead of in little boxes on my screen!

Thinking Too Hard 🤔

What do you do when you find your focus drifting? Apparently some people stare at a wall.

While I've not tried THAT specifically, I do think there's value in doing something to allow that focus to recover:

• Going on a walk
• Doing simple physical mindless tasks (washing dishes, etc)
• Changing locations (something about driving a car hits a reset button)

These types of activities seem to push the problem to the back of the mind where it can seep and stew a little — and often after coming back you already have a solution! Minds are strange things.

Do you have any routines or activities to help you recover your focus?

Interesting Web Bits 🍜

Web Stuff

• Like many of us, ChatGPT has developed a fascination of goblins.
• Zed 1.0 is out, and it’s pretty nice! (But you’ll never take my NeoVim from meeeee!)
• How well do you remember your CSS properties? Take the CSS or BS quiz to find out. It’s surprisingly tricky!
• Research that stops at the want produces faster horses. Research that finds the need opens product space.
• "Your value-added is becoming increasingly defined by something that a model cannot do: intentionally weird human touch." Yes! Give me all your weird! This is how we fight the goblins... errr... I mean robots!
• Speaking of weird, voting has started for entries in the Gamedev.js Jam 2026.

👽 Weird, 📺 Watch, and 🎮 Play

• I wonder how many takes it took to make this Cats + Ping Pong Trick Shot video. 🐱🏓
• Watch this adorable baby elephant in a kiddie pool.