Posted on Sat 26 November 2022 in IT, programming, google
Early in 2022, I started getting emails from Google, warning that starting from 2023 they would retire Universal Analytics (UA), which is what everybody uses to track views from Google Analytics in this decade. Closer inspection revealed that this was not a simple change: they were in fact retiring all …
Posted on Sat 23 April 2022 in programming, finite element method, mathematics
In the attempt of coupling my PhD's Finite Elements Framework for Fjord Ice-ocean Interactions (FEFFII) with an ice code, I stumbled upon the issue of deforming the ocean mesh. If a simulation stretches over a long span of time, the geometry of the ice is likely to change due to …
Posted on Wed 05 January 2022 in programming, IT, wordpress
The following WP-CLI command will create a lot of test data into a WordPress site: 1000 new users, each with 50 posts. Each post gets a random date in the last year and a random post content of variable length filled using a lorem ipsum generator.
WP_CLI::add_command( 'test', 'create_test_data …Posted on Thu 06 February 2020 in finite element method, IT, programming, mathematics
The FEniCS project allows for simple solution of partial differential equations. However, getting started from examples is so quick, it is easy to miss how the inner-workings of it behave. This should not happen (especially if it is a PhD project). There are three vital pieces of the puzzle that …
Posted on Fri 13 April 2018 in wordpress, programming, IT
Some months ago, I changed one link in the menu in my website postpaycounter.com. After that, it looked to me more people were purchasing products, i.e. the conversion rate had increased. But how to check whther that was really the case, or if it was just an accident …
Posted on Tue 13 February 2018 in binary reverse, brute force, python, programming, IT, security
I was to reverse a file for a challenge, MD5 hash 85c9feed0cb0f240a62b1e50d1ab0419.
The challenge was called mio cuggino, purposefully misspelled with two g letters. It asks for three numbers. The challenge led me to a brute force of the password with a Python script, learning how to interact with a …
Posted on Wed 20 September 2017 in IT, programming
Well, I have been wondering about this for quite a while now, and I have tried to run some tests to better understand what's going on under the hood. The standard answer is that after you call delete you should not expect anything good from accessing that memory spot. However …
Posted on Sat 06 February 2016 in algorithms, IT, programming
This article aims at presenting a method for computing the relevance of a given string (pattern) in a text. This algorithm is at the core of my WordPress plugin Smart Tag Insert.
First of all, there is a difference between a simple pattern matching and computing text pattern relevance. The …
Posted on Wed 20 February 2013 in IT, programming
I am working on integrating my Post Pay Counter Wordpress plugin with PayPal, so that site administrators can pay their writers directly from their blog pages, without having to head to the PayPal website.
PayPal APIs have the usual shitty documentation we have grown accustomed to in the tech world …
Posted on Tue 03 April 2012 in programming
As you may know, I am the happy developer of a Wordpress plugin called Post Pay Counter. I dare say that that has been my first serious coding project, well thought and well written. It taught me a lot, above all the concept that when you start a new project …