Charles Fulton

@mackensen
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Web developer, Amtrak zealot, and occasional B-movie reviewer. He/him.

Blog: https://blog.goodbyeplease.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mackensen

I wrote about #BestWorstMovie, the #Troll2 documentary, and my mixed feelings about what it's trying to do and say: https://blog.goodbyeplease.com/2022/11/08/Best-Worst-Movie/
Best Worst Movie

Troll 2 is, by acclamation, one of the worst movies ever made. It was shot in Utah in 1989 for around $100,000. Most of the actors were first-time performers. The director, Claudio Fragasso, spoke lit

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@[email protected] I mean I really expected nothing less :). How's the experience of running a server?
#introduction I'm a web developer and system administrator in higher education in the United States. I ride #trains and watch bad movies (also some good ones). Saturdays in the fall are given over to college football.
Wrote about my Charles Babbage moment, in which I put wrong figures in and expected the right result: https://blog.goodbyeplease.com/2022/11/03/Garbage-In-Garbage-Out/
Garbage In, Garbage Out

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the k

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Reviewed #Gymkata, which is some ways is actually worse than I half-remembered from #BFest https://blog.goodbyeplease.com/2022/11/02/Gymkata/
Gymkata

Within the circle of people Liz and I knew through B-Fest at Northwestern University, Gymkata was somewhat legendary despite being a comparatively recent film (1985). For my part, I always have a soft

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Wrote about curing the "An automated WordPress update has failed to complete" message in #WordPress https://blog.goodbyeplease.com/2022/11/01/An-automated-WordPress-update-has-failed-to-complete/
An automated WordPress update has failed to complete

We use a git+composer strategy to manage our WordPress environments (start here for a series of posts about this) and therefore have WordPress auto-update disabled. Beyond that, Apache doesn’t have wr

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Tests and tags in CDK

I manage a bunch of redirected subdomains. We use these with third-party applications, where the application lives at some non-Lafayette URL and we want a clean, simple Lafayette URL for our users. We

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Spent the evening messing around with Hexo, in yet another attempt to find a static site generator and put off actually writing content.