🙈 Useless Fact of the Day

An ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
📅 This Day in History
🛰️ On February 12, 2001...
The NASA space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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📰 News
The FDA, now under RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine–aligned leadership, refused to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, suddenly deeming its large Phase 3 trial’s comparator inadequate despite prior approvals, raising concerns of politicized regulation while other countries proceed with review.
Google’s Android 17 beta introduces a Canary channel for continuous developer updates, improves performance and Wi-Fi, and tightens resizing rules for large screens. It adds smoother camera transitions, VVC codec support, better loudness control, and stricter background audio. Release targeted for Q2 2026.
Steve Yegge argues AI coding agents are accelerating rapidly, making hand-coding and many traditional skills obsolete. He predicts large companies will shed up to half their engineers while small, AI-native teams thrive, but warns intense “vibe coding” is draining and unsustainably demanding.
China successfully tested its new Mengzhou crew capsule’s in‑flight abort system and a reusable Long March 10 booster in one mission, advancing plans for a 2030 lunar landing and showcasing growing reusability capabilities to compete with NASA and SpaceX.
💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day

Jeff Dean was born on December 31, 1969 at 11:48 PM. It took him twelve minutes to implement his first time counter.
💡📚 Articles
👨‍💻 Repositories
⭐ 7, 🖖 0
Claude Code Batch API MCP for non-urgent work
⭐ 43, 🖖 1
Ec – a terminal Git conflict resolver inspired by IntelliJ
⭐ 144, 🖖 8
Time Station Emulator
⭐ 2009, 🖖 463
Codes/Notebooks for AI Projects
⭐ 2499, 🖖 322
Proxy that exposes Antigravity provided claude / gemini models, so we can use them in Claude Code and OpenClaw (Clawdbot)
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