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For a task today, I wanted to verify that redirects on a website were working as expected after migrating them from one redirect plugin to another one (yes, this site had 2 enabled). I couldn’t figure out the right invocation to test them using cURL in PHP, even though the documentation seemed straightforward (just set

For fun, I dove into procedural text generation using Improv. It works well enough – the fact that grammars are JSON files is tedious but you can create some interesting bits of text at random. After getting the hang of it, I went down the rabbit hole to generate descriptions of monuments a party might

Easy with image magick: # get the first page as a PNG convert -resize 1275×1650 “example.pdf”[0] cover.jpg # make the smaller version convert -resize 155×200 cover.jpg

My friend Sandy shared a link to a fascinating natural experiment comparing the productivity of two similarly tasked developer teams. If you haven’t read it already, take a minute to check it out. I’ve seen this need for visibility throughout my career. The cable company was a rare laboratory, you could observe a direct comparison between