Daily Shaarli
December 22, 2017
Curious why Functional Programming is on the Rise?
Do you wish there was a better option than JavaScript?
Would you like to learn Elm or Functional Programming in general, but short on time?
Elasticsearch For Beginners: Indexing your Gmail Inbox
What's this all about?
I recently looked at my Gmail inbox and noticed that I have well over 50k emails, taking up about 12GB of space but there is no good way to tell what emails take up space, who sent them to, who emails me, etc
Goal of this tutorial is to load an entire Gmail inbox into Elasticsearch using bulk indexing and then start querying the cluster to get a better picture of what's going on.
Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation has this chicken and egg problem where you can't search for how to get yourself out of a mess, unless you already know the name of the thing you need to know about in order to fix your problem.
So here are some bad situations I've gotten myself into, and how I eventually got myself out of them in plain english*.