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ghorwood, 21 hours ago to random

i blogged about mysql's json functions for all the people who think putting large blobs of schemaless data into their relational databases is a good idea.

https://gbh.fruitbat.io/2024/05/28/mysql-using-json-data-and-not-hating-it/

ghorwood, 2 days ago to random

i am of the age where i have opinions on 20-litre plastic buckets, and these are frickin’ awesome.

ghorwood, 5 days ago to random

"using linux is difficult. i think it would be simpler for me, a lone consumer in a mid-sized city, to bend the corporate behemoth that is microsoft to my will" is an absolutely wild take.

ghorwood, 6 days ago to random

look, i’m obviously one of those crusty, old command-line-first linux guys, but hear me out: you don’t need to be “culturally linux” to use linux. you can just install it and use it and not make it part of your identity.

any of those distros people talk about will work fine, great even, right out of the box: popos, mint, fedora, elementary, zorin. it doesn’t really matter.

ghorwood, 6 days ago to random

everyone is falling all over themselves about all this new whale language research and how maybe whales have words. but, my people, we've known prairie dogs have a language -- verbs and nouns, even adjectives -- for fifteen years and no one has ever cared.

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/132650631/new-language-discovered-prairiedogese

ghorwood, 7 days ago to random

shout out to the lady from the ltc who called to tell me the dad was having his review meeting in forty minutes and “would i like to be there”. nothing like dropping everything and driving across the city for a meeting everyone else knew was happening two months ago.

ghorwood, 7 days ago to random

i blogged about splitting tarballs into smaller chunks for all the people out there still backing up to a ziploc bag of 1gb thumbdrives they got at 7-eleven.

https://gbh.fruitbat.io/2024/05/21/bash-splitting-tarballs-the-easy-way/

ghorwood, 11 days ago to random

let me get this straight: slack is going to scrape all our data and poison their relationship with their userbase so they can recommend emojis? emojis? really?

ghorwood, 12 days ago to random

capital letters are a plot by big letter to sell more big letters.

ghorwood, 13 days ago to random

any you guys remember that whole 'nft' craze thing from a long time ago when people were demanding microsoft disable right-click 'cos they spent a thousand bucks on a png. wild times.

ghorwood, 14 days ago to random

you want enshittification? the bell phone monopoly gave us, free of encumbrance, the transistor, the solar panel, telstar, three different types of lasers, pressure treated lumber, and two operating systems, one of which i like.

and today at&t is bribing the friends of public officials to get out of providing landlines.

ghorwood, 14 days ago to random

the gang is playing this game that involves a lot of running and has a stamina mechanism and i’ve been yelling “fartlek! do fartlek!” and only discovered now that no one knows what i’m talking about.

ghorwood, 14 days ago to random

just used 'per-fuckin'-se' in a business email.

please clap.

ghorwood, 15 days ago to random

i blogged about nginx's X-Accel-Redirect header, which you probably aren't using and probably never will.

https://gbh.fruitbat.io/2024/05/12/nginx-serving-private-files-with-x-accel/

ghorwood, 19 days ago to random

a client is running a closed beta and some total rando from china signed up out of the blue on day two and is doing a better job of using the application than the beta users who've had their hands held through the whole process.

ghorwood, 20 days ago to random

good news! the terrifying thing i said five years ago would happen within the next twenty years is fifteen years ahead of schedule!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-armed-with-ai-targeting-rifles-undergo-us-marines-special-ops-evaluation/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned

ghorwood, 22 days ago to random

it’s that time of year again when the government sends you an alert to remind you that bears still exist.

ghorwood, 22 days ago to random

i blogged about the mysql slow query log on the off chance other people are as bad at writing sql as i am.

https://gbh.fruitbat.io/2024/05/06/mysql-using-the-slow-query-log/

ghorwood, 27 days ago to random

me: all the music i like is objectively terrible
cody: i'm sure that's not true...
me: the band i'm listening to right now is called 'witch piss' and their album cover looks like this.
cody: ah. i see what you mean now.

ghorwood, 27 days ago to random

two weeks ago i was “i should get a quieter keyboard so i don’t disturb lee so much” and since then i’ve found myself reading reviews of switches and posts on whether key sculpting actually does anything and counting the u’s on the bottom row of my corsair.

“keyboard people” are detached from reality. and i fear i could easily become a “keyboard person”.

ghorwood, 28 days ago to random

lord save me from lengthy slack conversations with people who type at fifteen words per minute...

ghorwood, 29 days ago to random

i blogged about disk space monitoring with standard bash tools because, apparently, that's what all 'the kids' are into these days.

https://gbh.fruitbat.io/2024/04/29/managing-disk-space-in-bash/

ghorwood, 1 month ago to random

lee is making me watch a movie called “the man from toronto” and, thirty minutes in, i’ve finally realized it’s because she finds it hilarious watching me cringe every time a hollywood actor says the word “toronto”.

ghorwood, 1 month ago to random

i’m old enough to remember when using hunger as a weapon was considered a war crime. #genxisgettingold

ghorwood, 1 month ago to random

i see doug ford put down his timmies long enough to take credit for a battery plant that’s being built because of federal incentives.