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Bash Your Day
For the past six months or so I’ve used a bash script to start my morning. The genesis of this idea was that I wanted to be more effective at prioritizing reviewing other peoples’ code and writing my...
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Notes from The Printing Revolution
I’ve been reading The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth Eisenstein on the transition of Europe from a scribal culture to a printing culture. In referencing Michael Clapham: A man...
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Top Five Posts from 2016
Most of this blog’s 40k visitors a year are looking at the epic Elasticsearch posts that I wrote years ago. For the most part they seem to still be relevant to people even if they are somewhat...
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Senator Bennet, your email address doesn’t work.
I emailed my Senator a few weeks ago to oppose Gorsuch being appointed to the Supreme Court. His response seems to indicate he thinks Trump nominees are still worthy of consideration. That’s an absurd...
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Combining Search Scores: Winning and Failing
Trey Jones at Wikimedia Foundation published some very interesting notes up about how to think about combining scores for search ranking (particularly Elasticsearch). I like this insight a lot:...
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