Michael Born — Fullstack software engineer. When I'm not debating the finer points of software development, I can be found pedaling furiously along a winding country road.
Working from a laptop has some advantages. On beautiful fall days like this one, I can unplug my display and dongles and transition to a lawn chair in the shade. There's only one problem - the ambient light outdoors (even while sitting in the shade) is too great for my Lenovo E16 to overcome.
I was installing TablePlus this morning and accidentally followed the instructions for Ubuntu 26.04. This included running this command to install the TablePlus apt repostory for Ubuntu 26.xx:
Despite the last 15+ years running Ubuntu as my daily driver, I don't spend much time scripting in Bash. Yesterday while working on a git release prep skill, I found myself wondering how to compare version numbers in an inline conditional statement, without resorting to a full if[...];then...fi block.
I was today-years-old when I learned that ElasticSearch will not apply an ingest pipeline to existing documents during a bulk upsert operation.
This is an interesting one I learned while setting up a /draft-gitlab-release skill. Since I manually bump version numbers in this project, it's important to compare the live version number first, so I don't accidentally double-bump the version number on development.