Year: 2024
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90% is often the perfect amount
It is spring time where I live, which besides chirping birds and blooming flowers means also spring cleaning. In particular, I have spent at 10-20 hours over the last several weeks cleaning the paths in our back yard. Over the winter months, when we don’t use it much, moss, algae, and weeds start to grow…
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Closures in PHPUnit dataProviders
Today I was working on a PHPUnit test at work for testing Elasticsearch. In this case, I wanted to make sure that the data that I was indexing was findable. Basically I wanted to run a search for a given query and check that the results were as expected. I wanted to run this search…
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Roxanne
In the summer of 1998 I attended a music academy in Los Angeles for a week. I had met some of the teachers at the Percussive Arts Society Festival in Iowa earlier that year and impressed them, so they offered me a free ride. I just had to pay to get there and for a…
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BASH history and GNU screen
I can’t remember exactly when or where I learned this. I would guess sometime between 5 and 10 years ago, while I was working at Nuance Communications. I likely learned it from stackoverflow.com, though it is possible I learned it from a colleague. I have been using GNU screen on a nearly daily basis at…
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Found in Translation
Last July I had an accident which caused a traumatic brain injury. Since then I have recovered considerably. I spent three weeks in a rehab facility near Cologne in November. During that time I did lots of hiking, reading, writing, and thinking. While hiking, verse started coming into my head. The last time I wrote…