December 2012
31 posts
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“But nothing gets noticed more than which employees constantly turn up late. Even if bosses say they don’t care – they do. Nothing tarnishes your reputation more quick than being THAT person”
—Some Quick Sage Advice for Young Employees Early in Their Careers
Better Python APIs →
ozkatz.github.com
Nice ‘n clean
“Thank you for your offer of $300 USD. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to make a deal at this level. I would need an offer from you that is much closer to the $69,000 USD”
—Some dipshit trying to sell me a domain name
“Basically your code is never free from errors. “alpha”, “beta”, “production read”, and “rock solid” are just names we assign to the probability we believe there is for a serious error to be discovered in a reasonable time frame.”
—More on the nature of bugs and crashes in this post from the creator of Redis, the ever-insightful Salvatore Sanfilippo. (via arseniosantos)
November 2012
22 posts
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Meet NixTi.me
All of the unixtime to human-readable-date pages on the web are pretty ugly so I made my own. Introducing nixti.me.
It’s pretty simple but has a couple tiny yet convenient “features”.
- accepts seconds since epoch, ms since epoch, a valid bson ObjectId & any string that PHP’s strtotime function understands as input.
- tack on json=1 to the URL to get output as json
- tack on f=local, f=utc or f=unixtime to the URL to get just a single field from the json output
Obviously it would be nice to be able to skip the web browser thing and get at it from the terminal. Simple enough - just add something like this to your .bash_profile
nixtime "string or timestamp to get data for".
