Til on Charles Ancheta

TIL: Beans Etymology

cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta) — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:50:18 -0700

Being a Tagalog speaker and a language learner, I’ve always been interested in etymology of Tagalog words. The obvious influences are Spanish and English, but there’s also a lot from Hokkien and Malay.

Today I’m going to list out some words that I find interesting:

Linggo (Sunday; week) - All the days in Tagalog are directly borrowed from Spanish one to one, except for Sunday (domingo). Apparently it could be from Malay minggu which came from Portuguese domingo. Of course, both of those could be traced to Latin, and Portuguese and Spanish are pretty close to each other. I just find it interesting that we get to the same word in a pretty roundabout way.

TIL: Parallel `make`

cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta) — Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve always kind of known about the -j flag for make, but I didn’t know that it just works.

TIL: My actual height

cancheta.dev@gmail.com (Charles Ancheta) — Sun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Today I learned what my actual height was (at least at the time of writing). For a few years now I’ve always kind of just stuck with 170 cm because that’s what was in my driver’s license when I got it 5 years ago (I really need to pass the road test this year). I’m not even sure if that was right at the time.