Mesa Cuts Rewards; WASM Highlighting Arrives
Summary
The convergence of startup closures and specialized developer tool creation highlights shifting priorities in both consumer finance and local-first software.
- Fintech Shutdown Mesa ceased its 1% cash-back mortgage rewards card offering, ending operations started in late 2024 1.
- Developer Utilities Hashcards launched as a local-first, plain-text spaced repetition system leveraging the FSRS algorithm 2.
- Code Highlighting Arborium is developing tree-sitter based code highlighting, targeting both native and WASM compilation outputs 5.
- PWA Development A user detailed building a PWA for household use, enabling functionality for his wife and daughter via a new web app 3.
- 1% - Cash back rate offered by Mesa on its now-defunct mortgage credit card 1.
- 0.26 - Tree-sitter grammar version utilized by Arborium for robust code highlighting 5.
- November 2024 - The launch month for Mesa’s specialized homeowners credit card offering 1.
Key Moments
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Mesa shuts down credit card that rewarded cardholders for paying their mortgages
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Hashcards is a local-first spaced repetition application designed as an alternative to Anki and Mochi.
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Arborium is a system providing robust code highlighting utilizing tree-sitter grammars generated specifically with version 0.26.
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Development of a PWA for household use by his wife and daughter, enabling the functionality they needed.
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Different Perspectives
Opposing View
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