Category: WordPress
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Photos, EXIF, IPTC oh my!
Today I wanted to make a post on my blog with a bunch of pictures. I used my Canon DSLR over the weekend, and I imported all the pictures into the Photos app on my Mac. My normal workflow is to first go through all the pictures and choose the best, which is usually somewhere…
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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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What is a professor?
Yesterday at dinner my 12-year old son asked me if I used to be a professor. “No, I didn’t.” But I did teach at a university, right? “Yes, I did.” And thus began a 20 minute explanation of what it is to be a professor. I thought I would summarize it up here, since it…
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Forcing JPEG instead of WebP for images with Jetpack
I use Jetpack on most of my WordPress websites, because it has some really great features, many of them free. I still can’t believe that Automattic gives away a CDN (content distribution network). If you don’t know what that is, it is a way of hosting static files like images, javascript, and css and the…