Every so often, I clean up old working branches I don’t need any more. After I’ve written or revised content, and the pull request has been merged from my fork of the repo into the main branch of the organization’s repo, it’s time to get rid of the old working branches. TLDR/Copy and paste Here’s […]
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Using voice to text to write blog posts
I am sitting in our car with the dog while my wife has gone into the food store wearing a mask to buy groceries. I’m experimenting today to see how well writing a blog post using voice-to-text on my phone works. As far as I know, there aren’t any good inexpensive or free ways to […]
Read moreJob aid: Git cherry-pick a commit and manually resolve a conflict
This post is short version of Git: Cherry-pick a commit into a branch and resolve a merge conflict. Replace `upstream/enterprise-4.8` with whatever your target branch is. I copy/paste these commands into my terminal. Verify that “Your branch is up to date with ‘upstream/enterprise-4.8’.” Go to the pull request that has the merge failure (e.g., like this […]
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checklists serve the following functions. Act as memory guide. Ensure that all critical actions are taken. Reduce variability between pilots. Enhance coordination during high workload and stressful conditions. Saving Lives With Checklists | Heroic Technical Writing: Advice and Insights on the Business of Technical Communication
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Git: Cherry-pick a commit into a branch and resolve a merge conflict
Here’s the merge conflict message our merge master got when she tried to cherry pick my pull request (PR) to version 4.7 of the published OpenShift docs (lines , below). Here, I start by deleting the enterprise-4.7 branch (line ) because it had a previous unmerged commit sitting at the top of the pile. (In […]
Read moreWordPress bug with highlighting lines in a code block
I discovered a bug. When you use the highlight lines property for code blocks as shown here… …the highlighting for the higher line numbers gets confused, as shown with lines 27, 39, 60 in the following screenshot. I’ve reached out to WordPress support and will let you know how it goes. I’ll try to file […]
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A personal post about my mother’s approaching death
This past month has been a hard one for me. My mother is in hospice care at an assisted-living home. Along with waves of grief about my mother’s approaching death and guilt for not being a better son, I’ve been struggling with anger at “the system.” The people within this system are kind, ethical, caring, […]
Read moreThat might not be the right question | Seth’s Blog
“Where do you get your ideas?” The thing is, everyone has ideas. All the time, every day. Having ideas is part of the human condition. The right questions might be: Are you exposing yourself to new inputs and new situations, and challenging yourself to find more interesting ideas? Are you pushing the ideas you have […]
Read moreLet Gmail to sort your email
Gmail does a pretty good job of categorizing your messages. You can train it to do better. Primary tab Move messages that you must review, respond to, or take action upon to the Primary tab. Social tab Move social network notifications to the Social tab. These messages duplicate information in your social networks. You should […]
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