Month: January 2026
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Power walking
No, it is not what you are picturing. I did not walk extra briskly wearing a jogging outfit today. Rather, I walked 1.2 miles to the supermarket and back. The way back is mostly uphill, and I had my backpack full with 10 cans of chickpeas (because they were on sale for 10/$10) and a…
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Walking
I just moved (back) to Colorado this week and I have been exploring my new neighborhood by walking. One of the nice things about Colorado is that the sun shines a lot, even in the winter, so taking a walk in the afternoon is a great way to get a bit of exercise, since my…
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Elasticsearch type gotcha
I recently was working on updating some elasticsearch tests we have for WordPress.com. We have so-called isolated tests, which use a real MySQL database and a real Elasticsearch test cluster. We create sample blogs, posts, and so forth, store them in the database, which triggers our hooks for indexing into Elasticsearch, and then we make…