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TS Red Carpet Madness: Round 1, Matchup 6

Our sixth matchup is a battle between three iconic Grammys looks! Fighting every need I feel to vocalize that I think constantly about one of these looks and it's my absolute favourite red carpet look she's ever worn. I can't wait to see how everyone votes. Be sure to follow tsredcarpetmadness for all upcoming polls!

#who can forget the gravity defying heels #taylor

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What was the last phony phone call you made?

#icon #taylor

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kennethchoi_: What it's like working with Peter Krause...

#they're so cute filming their lil videos #911 #kenneth choi #peter krause

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*not if you want them to, but would they.

#i voted no but i don't feel that strongly about it #hard to say bc i can see it both ways easily #like on one hand christopher is Enough for them #but buck looooves babies and eddie barely saw chris's early years #some people in the notes are saying they could foster and i love that but i feel like TWO firefighters isn't conducive to that #911

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you all laughed but i really do think the screenshot of the tags that was something to the effect of "taylor swift fans would have their minds explode if they heard an mcr song" is the essence of this website's culture. the eternal form of tumblr dot com bound and brought before us in a single sentence

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#friends #chandler bing #monica geller #chandler and monica #i can't queue this all on my own

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ready for pickup i can go get it after work (checked it's the right one)

possibly finally getting back on vyvanse everyone cheered

#blabs

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What happened to your wisdom teeth? (1/2)

They have not emerged yet

They have emerged, and will likely stay put

They have emerged, and I will soon have them removed

I had some removed and the remaining will likely stay put

I had some removed and I will soon have the rest removed

I had all of them removed

I was born without wisdom teeth

Other

#i voted all of them removed but technically only 3 were removed #i had to have a tooth pulled in the back so they made that wisdom tooth grow into the spot

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if you identify as more than one of these, choose the one you most closely identify with or the button you want to press the most 🤷🏻‍♀️

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A very very minor thing I have been curious about for a while, and I'm finally asking: why do you calculate queue posting times the way you do? For example, if I set my queue to post 3x a day, naively I would expect it to post every 8 hours. But in reality it posts every 6 hours with a 12 hour gap between days. Why complicate the math like that?

Answer: Hello @circumference-pie!

Buckle up y’all, it’s story time again!

First: nobody who works at Tumblr right now was a part of the work of planning the default queue implementation, which was more than ten years ago. So the full story behind “Why does it work that way?” has unfortunately been lost to the sands of time. All we can do is tell you how it works today and surmise some reasons why. The queue is actually a very clever system and part of how it works explains some of why it works the way it does. Also, there have been attempts to do what you ask—we still have “Queue 2.0” available in your Tumblr Labs settings, which tries to get closer to how you expect things to work.

Anyway! How the queue works today is not actually a queue in the traditional sense. There is no single list of posts that are in “your queue”. Instead, when you “Add to queue” after creating a post, we’re actually scheduling it to post at a future time, as if you had used the “Schedule post” option instead. We’re just calculating that time on your behalf when you use “Add to queue”, based on your settings, and how many other scheduled posts you have already. We use a secondary “index” model, called “ScheduledPost”, to keep track of posts you have scheduled on your blog. We do mark the ones that are a part of “your queue”, but the data model doesn’t keep one list of your “queue” per se.

You can see this in action on your blog, hiding in plain sight. If you add a bunch of posts to your queue, and then schedule a post for a specific future date, you’ll see both in your blog’s “queue” list, side by side. Because technically to us, they’re the same thing: queued posts are really just another kind of scheduled post, relying on the same always-running service to publish scheduled posts across all of Tumblr. Here’s a fun fact: we typically have about ~14.5 million future posts to publish from this list at any given time and are publishing hundreds of these scheduled posts every second.

So when you’re adding a new post to your queue, what we’re doing behind the scenes is starting at the beginning of your “day”, and creating time slots based on your queue settings. If a time slot is already filled, we move on to the next one. That’s why the default queue scheduler works how you describe—we’re trying to fill those “slots” based on the start of the day, rather than trying to divide the calendar day evenly. This just makes it much simpler for us to understand, scale, and predict when our “peaks” will be. At peak times, the publish-scheduled-posts service is publishing tens of thousands of posts in a manner of seconds. We did rewrite that post-publishing part of this architecture a few years ago to improve its efficiency and solve a lot of “lost post” bugs, but we didn’t change how “Add to queue” works.

However, the Queue 2.0 project available in Labs was an attempt to change the queue system to work as you expect—instead of starting at [beginning of day] and creating enough slots to fit [number of slots] every [number of hours], it tries to divide the calendar day into [number of slots] and fit the result back to the original algorithm’s mapping of the day. We never productionized this alternative approach, because it has a few bugs that some blogs hit in extreme cases, and we’ve never had time to fully fix them. It also can cause a bit of weirdness when time zones diverge, like with daylight savings time. Also, a lot of people prefer the default algorithm, and we haven’t thought of a nice way to transition everyone from one to the other. So for now, both options exist, and you can choose which algorithm for queue-slot-generating you want to use. We hope that makes sense! 

While complicated, it is a great example of a system built by engineers to make sense and be scalable and predictable. But sometimes these kinds of systems, while clever, aren’t very intuitive to understand without digging into how they work.

Thanks for your question, and keep ’em coming. 

#tumblr #staff

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happy birthday, elmo 🎂

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I feel like this is going to end up as the consensus: once you give the album time to sit with you, it’s impossible to get over. https://x.com/emilynussbaum/status/1785011104256811459?s=46&t=FylXn1QUXg0PMZLee7mUOw

YUPPPPPPPPPP. it's the kind of art you need to digest - not high-reward right away. but extremely high-reward the more you listen.

#taylor #ttpd

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Having even slightly popular mutuals is so cool. The king has bestowed upon me a like. Perhaps even a reblog

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basically i'm checking to see who likes pickles and who doesn't 💚🥒 (<- pretend that is a pickle thanks)

#please take my pickles!

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she was telling me how this provider doesn't do very good documentation and i thought she was just being a little weird because he's trans and she IS a little weird about it but he does actually suck at documentation. get it together kyle. but she says everyone loves him especially the patients. and kind of implying they love him BECAUSE he's trans (?). for the life of me i can't figure out where she stands. she's never misgendered him at least

i was going over a patient chart with my supervisor, and pointed out some cutesy language that the provider used thinking it was funny, and she said "well he's transgender" like it was an explanation. what the fuck does that mean? of course you have blue hair and whimsy?

#also she couldn't remember what the LGBT letters are which is like. pretty basic lmao #blabs

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there should be a socially acceptable way to say "im not sure what to say to that. can you say something different"

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