miniblog.

Today I learnt about "bypass charging", a phone feature where it can run directly off the mains without using the battery at all. No battery charging, less heat, less battery wear. Nifty.

I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:

Are there any nice cross-platform ways to trigger a notification from a terminal? I've been using https://pushover.net/ but you need to use a browser and it's noticeably slower than the native options. (Pushover is great for mobile notifications though.)