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UNIX tip of the day: units
A colleague at Automattic today shared an interesting post about a strange sorting bug in PHP, and another colleague shared one I had read before – about how “our email system cannot send emails over 500 miles“. I had remembered reading that one sometime in the last couple years, but couldn’t remember all the details,…
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TIL: Elasticsearch timeouts
Lately at work at Tumblr I have been working on creating feeds of posts based on the country in which they were published, or the country in which users liked or reblogged a post. I didn’t want to do a simple filter, but rather use a boosting query to boost localized content, while also accounting…
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On Multilingualism and Empathy
Hallo (German informal). Guten Tag (standard German). Moin moin (Northern Germany). Goed morgen (Dutch). Bonjour (French). Ciao (Italian). Privet (Russian). Merhaba (Turkish) . Salam (Arabic). Zdravo (Serbo-croation). Hi (English). These are a few of the greetings I might hear on any day in my hometown of Würselen, Germany, which lies just a few kilometers away…
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UNIX tip of the day: readlink
Today I found myself using the readlink command, and it occurred to me that many people might not be aware of it. Here is what the man page says it does readlink – print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names If you work on shared filesystems with other people, such as on a large…
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It doesn’t matter to me …
Over the last several years, I have noticed that my kids frequently ask me simple questions or preference, for which I really don’t have an opinion. A good example of this is when we are playing a board game. Dad, which color do you want? I used to reply something like “I don’t care”. But…