David Turner

@davecturner@mastodon.online
94 Followers
75 Following
127 Posts

Software developer, working on Elasticsearch for elastic.co

TZ=Europe/London
https://pronoun.is/he
Formerly https://twitter.com/davecturner

Bloghttps://davecturner.github.io
Githubhttps://github.com/davecturner

Really cool use for addressable LED strings, animating Morse code transmission, by https://www.sciansell.co.uk/

https://youtu.be/MaQHN5bitLI

Sciansell | Science Exhibits, Demos and Shows. Because a little knowledge is a lot of fun.

Science exhibits, Science Demonstrations and Science Shows from Rosy and Dave Ansell

I'm sure this joke has already been made by a million #Tolkien nerds, but if you're a Nazgûl abroad in Ireland tonight, you're fucked. #éowyn #eowyn #mastodaoine

A Go-based CLI dashboard for monitoring #Elasticsearch clusters in real-time
#golang

https://github.com/acidvegas/elastop

GitHub - acidvegas/elastop: HTOP for Elasticsearch

HTOP for Elasticsearch. Contribute to acidvegas/elastop development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

I never use Caps Lock, so I disable the Caps Lock key completely with xmodmap, to avoid hitting it by accident.

Occasionally my X server gets into caps-lock state anyway. (Usually some complicated stunt was involved, like attaching x11vnc to the display remotely.) And then I can't turn it off again using the Caps Lock key.

So I wrote a tiny X client that lets me type 'xcapslock off' at a shell prompt …

… and then I had to make an alias to it, called 'XCAPSLOCK OFF'.

So ... 5W then?
"100% complete" hmm? You keep displaying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
I noticed today that Youtube's recommendation algorithm has done a pretty good job of training me to become extremely discriminating about the videos I watch. The decision used to be just "does this look interesting enough to spend a few minutes on?" but now it's "does this look like a member of a category of videos that I'd like to be recommended, to the exclusion of all else, for the next several weeks?"

A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.

Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”

A storage vendor told me today "just because we say our API is S3-compatible doesn't mean it behaves like S3 does" which left me wondering what else the phrase "S3-compatible" might mean.
Super-disappointed to discover that, in #TOTK, if you trick a Bokoblin into picking up a shield fused to a rocket, it doesn't do the thing that shields fused to rockets normally do. A pity, that would be hilarious.