Fri-bae

Happy Valentine's Day weekend for all our lovers and friends. And if you’re an anti-Valentines Day kind of person, check out the weekly My Favorite Breakupnewsletter (which, full disclosure, is published by Technical.ly Managing Editor Julie Zeglen).

This weekend can also be an opportunity to show yourself love. Go out to that restaurant you always wanted to try, go on that day trip or spa day, treat yo self. Self love is important, too.

Dropping Gems

• Here's a supercut of Uncle Shannon dropping relationship gems that apply to both sports and your love life.
• The Blox is an entrepreneur reality show featuring Baltimore’s very own TechSlice founder Juliana Buonanno. Check out the series online now for hours and hours of gems for early-stage startups specifically around marketing and branding, and look for our story on Buonanno's inclusion in the program next week.

In Other News

• Vax Cash is back. It's like the lottery, but for those who got their booster shot. If you have been boosted by Monday at any of the hundreds of clinics in Maryland, you’re a part of the $500,000 drawing happening Feb 15.
• Do you know what’s really going on at your child’s school? Read about the impact confession pages are having on Baltimore’s high school students.
• Today is Maryland’s “2-1-1” Day, celebrating the call line to for people in crisis or in need of connecting to mental health or substance use resources.
• Under Armour is seeing the effects of global supply chain challenges.

Random tech fact of the week

Without Jerry Lawson, inventor of the removable game cartridge, we wouldn’t have video games as we know them today. (Read about 11 other history-making Black technologists.)

— Technical.ly reporter Donte Kirby (donte@technical.ly)