Logs

Quick thoughts, cool links, and random notes. Things that are too small for a blog post, but worth sharing. A continuous stream.

• 11 December 2025 All New

  Today I learned that Google has a special Top-Level Domain (TLD) called .new that allows users to quickly create new documents or projects in various Google services. For example, docs.new opens a new Google Docs document, keep.new creates a new Google Keep note, and meet.new starts a new Google Meet call.

  And actually, this TLD is not exclusive to Google’s services.

  • repo.new creates a new GitHub repository.
  • excel.new opens a new Microsoft Excel document.
  • pen.new opens a new CodePen project.

  You can find all the .new shortcuts on whats.new.

• 08 December 2025 Big Bing

  Everyone knows that Bing is mostly a failure and always in the shadow of Google. But today I learned that if Bing was a separate company, it would be worth about 400 billion dollars, which makes it the 25th most valuable company, more valuable than IBM and AMD and almost as valuable as Netflix. as of writing this ¹

  And if we compare it by revenue, Bing’s revenue for 2025 is more than 12 billion, which makes it earn more than Shopify, eBay, Nintendo, and Airbnb.

  I guess the search engine market is more valuable than I thought.

  1. Calculated using Google’s revenue-per-user stats. Since Bing likely generates less per user, the real figure is probably slightly under $400B. ↩

• 04 December 2025 Linear to Power

  I’ve always used YouTube’s volume slider between 1% and 20%. It gets loud so quickly that there is very little difference between 50% and 100%. That’s because sound intensity increases with power, but our ears perceive it logarithmically. If you map the slider linearly, like YouTube does, it feels wrong.

  Fortunately, we can fix that with a small userscript. (If you don’t have an extension for Userscripts, I recommend Violentmonkey for Firefox and Tampermonkey for Chrome) You can install this userscript to fix both YouTube and YouTube Music.

  In Chrome, you need to give permission to Tampermonkey to run userscripts.

• 03 December 2025 Subtitle Searcher

  I found a website for searching through subtitles of YouTube channels and videos. With Filmot, you can select channels to search and type your query. It will show the results with timestamps. You can even search without specifying a channel to search across all videos.