I just spent the last hour trying to figure out how to send base64 encoded data that lives in a file using curl. Everyone says to just use –data-binary but that assumes you know what the binary format should actually be! Every combination I tried of –data-ascii and –crlf kept failing with…
Month: November 2014
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Using web page test with a custom IP address
I recently had a need to speed test a site that was almost launched. Since the site required an SSL cert we’d been doing our final tests with local host files. However, we wanted to get an external network’s view of our site and for that we always use the wonderful http://www.webpagetest.org/. The obvious…
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WP 4.1 – Something to watch
First, a very old bug/feature: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5809 Currently, if you have WP Category for fruits called “Apple” and a WP Tag for pies called “Apple” and a custom taxonomy such as “Computer Manufacturers” with an item called “Apple”, that “Apple” term is shared between everything. This isn’t much of a problem…
Fun links of the day
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Fun links of the day
Why is there no electricity in the Post Apocalyptic World? Oil is slippery; rubber is _____? Where does the Sun go at night? Orange object on back of jet-engine pylons, what is it? Why was Yitzhak “laughing” with his wife openly? Do all salts taste salty? How early was the…
Fun links of the day
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Fun links of the day
I love the Hot Network Questions on the StackExchange network. Here’s some from this morning. What happened during this foggy landing? If I’ve visited Crimea, what country do I list on my customs declaration form? How large can an atom get? What’s the farthest an electron can be from its nucleus?…