RIP Eric Binnion | Matt Mullenweg
For the following 30 days, a couple of billion of you’re going to get an additional header in honor of Eric Binnion. The code in Nginx to do that is poetic:
add_header X-Remembering "Eric Binnion <https://friendsofericbinnion.wordpress.com/>" all the time;
Our design workforce will make that much less AI and extra humane within the coming days.
Automattic.com could have a mourning band for 30 days.
Eric was the 21st recipient of the Distinguished Janitor Award, Automattic’s highest honor, and in our hangs the previous couple of months we’ve been speaking about the right way to redefine and evolve it, which can occur internally at Automattic. One of the concepts was for the award to return with a bodily memento, an etched tungsten dice. I don’t have many phrases so I’ll share one thing I wrote to Eric a couple of months in the past after I gave him my dice when he was going via chemo.
Two Totems To Take With You
The first is a tungsten dice I carry on my desk. Its weight will shock you, however tungsten is singular in having the very best melting level of any metallic. That represents one of many issues I love most about you.
Tungsten has an atomic variety of 74, its image is W, and it’s also referred to as wolfram.
My subsequent submit I’ve had in drafts for some time so please attempt to think about me blissful and promotional when studying it, however in any other case, I’m wrecked. Just going to soldier via as a result of that’s what Eric all the time did.
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