Ruth Schäfer

Sr. Research Software Engineer, Ph.D. in Particle Physics

Blog

  • RSS feeds

    Over the last few years, I have gathered a list of blogs and websites I read regularly. Some of them I subscribed to via email, but a lot of them I also navigated to whenever I remembered. It lead to many a mess of open tabs and missing posts I would’ve liked to read. One…


  • Reinstating site after domain change

    Turns out, if you lose access to your domain, it’s a real hassle to switch to a new domain. After a bit of trial and error, I found a solution making use of the developer interface of my browser. What happened was this: I had my wordpress website set up at my old domain, <old_url>….


  • Bash: goto script

    A few weeks ago, my boss mentiones a little bash script to me that he wrote to switch between a list of directories in CLI without having to remember them all. I thought that seemed like a fun little exercise so I wrote a version myself this morning. The behaviour is the following: The code…