Software algorithms as Ikea instruction manuals.
Apr 16th: Ideally MySQL include this in a future version of mysqldump, but here's a neat little utility to split extended inserts into one row per line. This allows you to use extended inserts (for much faster importing of large tables) while having the ability to grep and diff rows easily.
Turning a roll of aluminium foil into a knife, without any special tools
Watching the full 11 minutes is time well spent
This is the personal site of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO, ex Glitch engineer, ex Flickr architect, programmer, author and chronic complainer.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles. I also blog at World of Theorycraft and those links show up here too.
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