I accidentally made a 147GB file filled with grep output and almost filled up my hard drive.
Toby's Log
It seems the WiFi in my aging 2009 Macbook is dying.
Continue reading post "#3461"The recent Firefox Developer Edition update (91.0b6) seems to have broken CSS rendering or something.
Continue reading post "#3459"Purchase: New laptop, Lenovo Yoga 7i
Last month, I finally bought a new laptop with plans to replace my aging 2009 Macbook as my primary computer. It is a Lenovo Yoga 7i, purchased from MicroCenter. It is a switch from Mac, which has been my primary OS for pretty much since I’ve been using computers, but it has touch screen and I hope to switch to the open world of Linux.
Continue reading post "Purchase: New laptop, Lenovo Yoga 7i"I went for a hike yesterday at an inopportune time and got soaked.
Continue reading post "#3448"I got sick again with virus-like symptoms.
Continue reading post "#3441"I accidentally went to the wrong restaurant for lunch today and almost overheated myself in the process.
Continue reading post "#3438"Covid shot 2
I finally got my second Covid vaccine shot. Unplanned until I was on my way to get some groceries, I walked into Marcs and got it done.
Continue reading post "Covid shot 2"Broken Bitlocker recovery link
Apparently, Microsoft gives the wrong link for their Bitlocker recovery key page on both the Bitlocker recovery screen on the device and on the Microsoft account web page.
Continue reading post "Broken Bitlocker recovery link"Sorting with `FIELD()` function in Doctrine
I recently needed to sort query results to match the order of IDs passed to it for use in a WHERE … IN() clause. In MySQL, this can be done using the FIELD() function in the ORDERY BY clause. For Doctrine, which doesn’t have the FIELD() function and doesn’t allow functions in the ORDER BY clause, there’s a little more work needed to make use of it.