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Mar 11 2024
Jetty maxFormContentSizeJetty not working? Here’s the fix
People are generally prescribing something like this to configure maxFormContentSize for jetty in the jetty.xml: In my experience, in 2024 with a recent version of jetty (9.4.53), this isn’t working inside apache’s karaf or in embedded mode within maven, and may not be working in other containers as well.
Mar 05 2022
Amazon Photos & Cloud Backup In General Sucks
What’s the point of making a website / blog / LLC / career and building up a modicum of a following if you’re not going to use it as a forum for shitposting once in a while? Right? Right. I wouldn’t post something as stupid as this if it was possible to actually post something …
Mar 22 2020
Coronavirus Simulator
It seems that a lot of people don’t understand the purpose of flattening the curve with quarantine. I’ve made a crude simulator that demonstrates hospital resource exhaustion if the number of cases continues to grow at the current rate (25% per day as of March 22, 2020). Check it out: http://www.codercowboy.com/coronasim/
Mar 19 2020
Coronavirus Resources Page
Yeah, I’m worried / confused about all of this coronavirus stuff too. To that end, I’ve started collecting some useful links and information here, in Jason’s Coronavirus Page.
Mar 10 2020
Vintage Computer Software Resources In 2020
I’ve recently dived into collecting vintage computing hardware. Vintage software is somewhat hard to find these days, especially old boot disks and OS installation CDs. I found the following resources while reviving an old IBM Aptiva 2134 Pentium-era machine:
Mar 10 2020
Collecting Vintage Computer Hardware In 2020
I recently purchase and Aptiva 2134 from a vintage computer collector on Facebook Marketplace in an effort to fully immerse myself in Windows 9x nostalgia while writing a book. The 2134 is a Windows 95 era machine produced in 1996 that sports a 120mhz Pentium processor, 96MB of ram, three ISA slots, an on-board graphics …
Mar 14 2019
Wicket 7 Debug Bar Empty? Add a DebugBarInitializer to your app.
In Wicket 7.12.0, adding a DebugBar to your page will result in an empty / useless debug bar if you don’t add a DebugBarInitializer to your app. Hopefully this will be documented by the wicket project in the future, but it isn’t right now.
Oct 17 2018
Java HashMap.hashCode() Not Unique With String Keys And Values
Java’s HashMap (AbstractMap really) hashCode() implementation sums the hash codes of its entries rather than multiplies them by a prime number like String.hashCode() does. This can cause weird collisions in very similar maps.
Oct 16 2018
Non-Post.
Good news: I survived. Life’s much better now than the last time we spoke. Thanks for asking. Also good news: I’m cleaning up the site / blog a bit, trying to bring it up to at least a 2012 fashionable look, and I’ve been working on a fun book.
Feb 15 2017
Trash Bird Fix
Haven’t posted in a while, mostly because my life has been a complete fucking wreck for the past year or so. Anyway. I fixed the trash bird with a chrome extension.
About
Jason Baker is a software engineer. He works on enterprise infrastructure for big companies. He also enjoys creating smaller scale software products and scripts in his spare time.