Ruth Schäfer

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

Blog

  • 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…


  • What to do about umlauts?

    I was recently trying out Wayland, which broke my previous solution of how to type umlauts and other characters I need regularly, Autokey. Luckily, there’s an even more convenient solution: And that’s how I get to type my name, Schäfer, properly while maintaining the American keyboard layout with its convenient programming symbols. My .XCompose is…