Aaron Parecki

#til

🤯 TIL MySQL is aware of daylight savings time, and considers any times between 2am-3am when the clocks skip forward an invalid date!

In one session, it might throw an error, and in another session, it might store 3:00am instead of 2:05! 🤯

Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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Sat, Mar 11, 2023 7:08pm -08:00 #mysql #time #til
TIL you can select text inside images in Safari on iOS! 🤯

Portland, Oregon, USA • 39°F

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Mon, Dec 20, 2021 9:03pm -08:00 #ocr #til
TIL that your @netlify preview and branch deploys stick around forever, the only way to get rid of them is to delete the entire site. Better hope you never commit anything confidential/sensitive or any JS that calls out to external services... 🤦‍♂️

Portland, Oregon, USA • 67°F

27 likes 8 reposts 16 replies 1 mention

Thu, Oct 28, 2021 3:21pm -07:00 #netlify #til
TIL how to find all the Chinese spam websites, search for "今年你能赚 500 万"

Portland, Oregon, USA • 52°F

2 likes 1 repost 1 reply

Sat, Oct 16, 2021 10:01pm -07:00 #til
TIL you can still buy Casio calculator watches on Amazon, but they are "vintage" now

Portland, Oregon • 74°F

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Tue, Jun 1, 2021 10:15am -07:00 #til
TIL even web developers aren't safe from side-channel attacks. Nice overview of CORB and why it's important. https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/08/26/combat-side-channel-attacks-with-corb

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Aug 26, 2019 9:08am -07:00 #security #corb #til
You know those airplane seatbelts with an awkward amount of padding on one side? Apparently they are airbags!

I was sitting here waiting to take off and had to look that up. The reason for using them is also fascinating.

https://stuckattheairport.com/2011/09/15/your-airplane-seatbelt-may-also-be-an-airbag/

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Thu, Aug 8, 2019 6:07am -07:00 #travel #til
TIL three ways of batch renaming files in Linux:

rename -v 's/image/photo/' *.png

mmv "image*.png" "photo#1.png"

qmv *.png

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1136/batch-renaming-files
Portland, Oregon, USA • 41°F

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Sat, Feb 16, 2019 5:01pm -08:00 #linux #til
TIL my iPhone's FaceID doesn't recognize me when my mouth is full of food

Des Moines, Iowa, USA • 38°F

3 likes 3 replies 1 mention

Thu, Nov 15, 2018 8:52pm -06:00 #til
dietrich https://mastodon.social/@dietrich • Oct 31
Prague sausage party. http://bit.ly/2yJxlHz

TIL my last name means sausages in Slovak

Berlin, Berlin

1 like 1 repost 1 mention

Thu, Nov 1, 2018 7:16am +01:00 #til
TIL zucchini shreds way easier when it's slightly frozen by an overzealous fridge #BatchCooking

Portland, Oregon, USA • 66°F

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Sun, Sep 16, 2018 3:37pm -07:00 #batchcooking #til
TIL booting to OSX "safe mode" disables the touch bar completely, so there is no way to press the escape key in safe mode

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

9 likes 1 repost 10 replies 1 mention

Fri, May 11, 2018 7:53am -07:00 #osx #touchbar #til
TIL the 5-second rule doesn't really apply when you live with a cat

Portland, Oregon, USA

Wed, Mar 22, 2017 2:47pm -07:00 #til
TIL iTunes podcast episodes can be PDFs! Why have PDF newsletters via podcasts not replaced email newsletters?

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Fri, Dec 16, 2016 3:39pm -08:00 #podcasts #til
Whoa, TIL that Palm's WebOS lives on in current LG TVs!

Portland, Oregon, USA

3 likes 2 replies

Sat, Nov 26, 2016 10:17pm -08:00 #til
TIL Google is rolling out a new data center every month #oktane16

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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Tue, Aug 30, 2016 9:06am -07:00 #oktane16 #til
TIL the MAX has a box of sand under the front seats that can be dropped onto the wheels to give them more traction

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Mon, Jul 25, 2016 10:27pm -07:00 #pdx #max #til
TIL #alexa will respond to YouTube videos of #alexa almost exactly in sync. #amazonecho #internetofshit

Portland, Oregon

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Sun, Feb 14, 2016 7:26pm -08:00 #internetofshit #alexa #amazonecho #til
TIL I am super allergic to whatever grass they're growing between Hillsboro and Banks. Literally couldn't see for part of the bike ride. #workfromwoods

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Thu, Jul 2, 2015 8:49pm -07:00 #workfromwoods #til
TIL it's possible to send arbitrary files via iMessage

Portland, Oregon, USA

2 likes 3 replies

Sun, May 18, 2014 2:09pm -07:00 #imessage #til

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