Ryan Greenberg

Joining the Ads Team I got a job offer from Twitter in the spring of 2010.

I redid how images render on my site.

I have too many git branches and like many people I developed a convoluted script to show me the most recent ones.

I have multiple monitors and I use the cmd + tab application switcher often.

While researching interactive flags in less I learned about the LESS env var.

We have piles of shoes in our entryway.

I love the less pager.

I learned a new word today: mojibake!

You can open macOS’s Spotlight with cmd + space.

Sometimes when I learn about a tool I think “wow, that would have been useful [when I had some problem in the past]”.

A poorly understood aspect of male culture is that we express affection by curating content on the Internet to share with the people we love.

GUIs are great!

While working on Slack’s unfurl previews I needed to test what happens when the fetcher cannot access a site.

diff is a well-known tool to see what lines are different between files; comm is a less-known tool to see the common lines.

Years ago I was at a coffee shop with my friend Nick.

awk is a whole programming language, but 90% of what I use it for is printing a subset of columns.

I was filling out a form today and a friend joked, “You should put Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER in the budget field.”

I used Ruby extensively at Twitter and it remains one of my favorite languages, especially for tools and scripts.

I started doing the New York Times crossword in their app.

Programmers are forever coming up with clever ways to represent data more compactly.