Kosta Harlan

My team takes verbatim notes during meetings: as you speak, you see your initials appear in the notes document, followed by an interpretation of what you’ve just said.

Following up from Being organized, here’s some explanation of what I am doing day-to-day to be organized at work.

One of the essential skills in software engineering is being organized.

Occasionally there’s a thread on tech twitter inviting people, senior developers especially, to share about a time they broke production.

The single most useful command in my toolbox is Ctrl-r.

I use httpd from Homebrew (brew install httpd) as the web server for my local MediaWiki development instance.

In the previous post, we saw that the Selenium job in Ci is by far the slowest one in the group, at around 22 minutes.

Contents Part 1: Status quo (you are here) Part 2: Selenium Part 3: Parallelization Part 4: PHPUnit Part 5: Miscellaneous + bonus round The problem Every now and then I find myself staring at phab:T225730, “Reduce runtime of MW shared gate Jenkins jobs to…

In a previous post I wrote about speeding up Docker for Mac by giving up on Docker for Mac (tl;dr SSH tunnels and PhpStorm’s deploy feature to work on a remote server).

Here’s how I set up MediaWiki for local development on an Apple M1.

tl;dr: don’t even try I recently attempted to use Docker for Mac with my local MediaWiki setup (using MediaWiki’s docker-compose.yml).

Tomorrow On December 7 I’m presenting a Wikimedia tech talk on Testing MediaWiki code with PHPUnit.

Random things one learns as a MediaWiki developer.

Lately I’ve been experimenting with light mode / light color schemes in the terminal and text editor by day, and dark at night.

Πριν από χρόνια η μητέρα μου μ’εστειλε αυτές τις σελίδες που έγραψε ο παππούς μου.

ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΣ 18.11.1922-28.5.1989 Κάθε άνθρωπος έχει υποχρέωση - εφ’όσον τουλάχιστον την εσθάνετε - να πεί δύο λόγια σ’αυτούς που θα υπάρχουν μετά απ’αυτόν για το τι έζησε και πιός ήταν.

ΝΙΚΟΛΑΟΣ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ 18/11/1922-28/5/1989 Η αρχή είναι το ίμισι του πάντος .Αυτό τουλάχιστον λέγανε οι παλιώτεροί μας και πρέπει να είχαν απόλυτο δίκιο.

Back in high school I got in big trouble in my senior year.

In today’s edition of RTFM… I’ve been working on building Docker images to use with MediaWiki’s docker-compose development environment.

The incumbent in Leipzig’s mayoral election was re-elected yesterday. h/t to Daniel K who pointed me to this map of Leipzig’s political polarization.

This week, I’m working on the segâh makam, in particular Segâh Saz Semâî composed by Nâyî Osman Dede (1652-1729), sheet music courtesy of neyzen.

I recently had the pleasure of attending the 7th annual Turkish music institue workshop in New York.

I know I’m late to the party on the here’s-my-thoughts-on-this-exam-and-acquia-certification-in-general but anyway, here’s a take from 2018.

Earlier today I began to see build errors on a client project: The command "sudo apt-get update" failed and exited with 100 during .

This year marks five years since Domna Samiou passed away.

Faithful readers will notice I recently rebooted my blog.

For the last year, we’ve been using the wonderful docker-sync utility at work to improve performance on Docker for Mac.

PhpStorm is a great IDE (albeit non-free software) but the default font rendering in Linux is atrocious.

An organized git branching model is essential for managing complexity on long-running Drupal projects.

Niko would have been 35 today.

Riding home on the tobacco trail.

After four days, 200 miles and 20,000 feet of climbing, Eric and I finished up our bike tour through the mountains of Western NC.

For a long time now I’ve been planning to go for a bike tour, and next week my first one will become reality.

I wrote a blog post this week, “Honoring Seth Vidal, open-source developer and cyclist”.

Dear reader, Here is a simple site with notes on my work, life and whatever else comes along.