'There’s still plenty of life left in lithium-ion battery technology': researchers make gel electrolyte breakthrough that could boost EV range and safety

Researchers at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science claim to have developed a new gel electrolyte that will help stabilize anode-free lithium-ion batteries. This should improve the safety and longevity of this emerging battery technology, while presenting a cost-saving to manufacturers.

Range anxiety and battery longevity are real issues that need to be fixed. Any progress is welcome here.

Nothing couldn’t wait to show off the Phone 4A by Jess Weatherbed

After teasing the upcoming launch of its midrange Phone 4A last week, Nothing has now revealed what the rear of the device looks like. An official render of the Phone 4A shared on X shows off the brand's familiar transparent-industrial stylings, alongside a new "Glyph Bar" lighting feature located to the right of the triple camera island.

Always tempted by the design of this phone. If I ever switch over to the Android side, I will be going with a Pixel though.

Write-Only Code | Heavybit

Much as humans no longer shell into individual production servers, I believe we will develop similar practices around unread code. Over time, we will treat “humans had to read this to be comfortable” as a smell in our code generation pipeline, or as an explicit, expensive trade-off reserved for truly mission-critical subsystems. A natural outcome of this shift is a “code reading coverage” metric, tracked much like test coverage. What fraction of production code has actually been read by humans, partly as a safety signal, and partly as a metric teams deliberately and safely work to drive downward toward an asymptote.

Allow me to introduce the two-sentence journal by

I would aim to constrain each day's entry to one or two key things, and limit their expression to one or two sentences.

An interesting idea this. I am a believer in constraints. But not this constraint.

I do most of my writing in Obsidian. Space is not at a constraint here. I can write whatever, and however long I want to. And I do.

I do like the idea of diluting and thinking about whatever happened in the day though.

The Limits of AI by Hugh Howey

The limit holding us back will never be the limits of AI, but rather the limits of our biology. Can we stop hurting ourselves and others? Can we expand our circles of empathy until they include every living thing and even most non-living things. Can we be satisfied with less than our neighbors if it means we all have the basic necessities of life? I’m an atheist, and the 10 commandments start off with some very weak sauce about fearing no other god and what not to believe, but even I can see that most of our problems would be solved if we lived by the rest of what’s there. No lying. No jealousy. No killing. We’ve had all the answers for thousands of years. We still can’t abide by them.