What I learned this week 02-01-2025
What I learned this week Software To obtain only the remote URL of a local repo: git config –get remote.origin.url
Can also remove and add a new origin: git remote remove origin git remote add origin
Nice explain plan visualizer
Go Daddy infosec issues
Business/Finance Interesting Links IRS auctions
Math/Stats Travel Other
What I learned this week 01-25-2025
What I learned this week Software Splitting network into two subnets to make life miserable for wifi stealers
Redshift max recursion rows is defaults to 50,000,000 SHOW max_recursion_rows;. Seems like this is actual recursion count not rows… Testing out with the following code:
WITH RECURSIVE digits(d) AS ( SELECT 1 AS d UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL SELECT 3 UNION ALL SELECT 4 UNION ALL SELECT 5 UNION ALL SELECT 6 UNION ALL SELECT 7 UNION ALL SELECT 8 UNION ALL SELECT 9 UNION ALL SELECT 0 ), integers(i) AS ( SELECT d FROM digits /* / UNION ALL / / SELECT i + 1 AS next_i FROM integers WHERE i < 50000800 ) SELECT min(i), max(i), COUNT() FROM integers; We get: min max count 0 50,000,800 500,007,965
What I learned this week 01-18-2025
What I learned this week Software uV is the way
Cute namesapce Zine
Great explanation of a Hash Join from the cofounder of DBT back in 2018
Business/Finance Bad Econ of WTF happened in 1971
Interesting Links Math/Stats Travel Other Since 1989, Kenny G’s recording “Going Home” from the Kenny G Live album has become an unconventional mega-hit throughout China.
What I learned this week 01-11-2025
What I learned this week Software Symbolic Linking is pretty cool: ln -s /Users/iamsam/Desktop/symlinkorigin.txt /Users/iamsam/Desktop/symlinkdest.txt Can set up a file to point to another file…
Xcancel is an instance of Nitter.
Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. The source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
No JavaScript or ads All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter Prevents Twitter from tracking your IP or JavaScript fingerprint Uses Twitter’s unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required) Lightweight (for @nim_lang, 60KB vs 784KB from twitter.
What I learned this week 01-04-2025
What I learned this week Software Couldn’t find where Datagrip stores its live templates.
find / -name templates and it is here:
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/my_user/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/DataGrip2024.1/templates stored as xml.
If you’re striuggling to find your local templates you can use find from a parent directory find / -name templates
Great overview of all that goes into a fab
Andy’s overview of DBs in 2024
Business/Finance I wasn’t familiar with this ev start up until now