Category: Computers
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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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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…
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Collapse all the things!
When I first created this blog in 2006, I found one thing severely lacking in WordPress – the display of archives. I wanted an expandable and collapsible list of archives like Blogger had in my sidebar, instead of just a dropdown or a big list. Of course, one thing that WordPress has had from a…
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Yet another website re-design
This is the third post about redesigning my website now. I did a major re-write and re-design in 2010, and then again in 2021. I have been thinking about redesigning again for over a year, after the release of WordPress 5.9, which added full-site editing (FSE) also known as the “Site Editor”. This takes the…