This feels just a few steps removed from bringing the technology from the 1990 film "Total Recall" to life. Clients are able to purchase completely custom memories, choosing the exact characters that will appear in their "vacations", their ages, and appearances.

I'm also kind of reminded of A Scanner Darkly. That would be another interesting movie to reconstruct this way.

I'm also reminded of those posters in the mall, where from a distance, it's an actor's face. But when you walk up close, it's actually made of hundreds of stills from their films.

In recognition of National Tooth Fairy Day on August 22, Delta Dental released additional findings from its 2025 Original Tooth Fairy Poll®.

Thank you for these; they convey the relative proportion very well and have satiated my curiosity.

Thank you for pointing this out; though the article's underlying message is relatable and well-formed, this "laughably obvious" straw man undermined some of its credibility.

This is a beautiful implementation all-around. It captures a similar "wow-factor" that gilded pages in physical books provide. If this is the future of digital media I'm excited!

> While documentation is often disliked, it is essential for configuration options, because [...] options are only added to a text file with a one-line comment at best.

This resonates. Feature Flags over time devolve into a lovely career of code archaeology.

Explaining old feature flags to colleagues is always a fun time.

Sit down and let me tell you the tale of "enable_disable_foo_bar_on_web_phone_but_not_model_x_unless_year_is_even"

Old feature flag? Or UXO?

Or maybe even GAELN.

And tribal knowledge about the rationale behind the need! (sometimes not needed anymore once the issue is fixed but somehow the FF survives)

Very thoughtful; thank you for sharing. I can particularly relate to not deliberately seeking out time in nature, but finding a unique, irreplaceable tranquility when I find myself there.

Me and a friend often debate the relative merits/downsides of a technologically globalized world versus the more isolated, but closer-to-nature "good old days". They sent me this post today, which, though I don't necessarily agree with, I found measured and thought-provoking, and hope someone else might, too.