Mokka mit Schlag

Red-tailed Hawk with dead mouse
Brooklyn Botanic Garden native flora garden at noon

Why can’t super-villains cooperate? Find out today in “Pinning Portugal” in Caped: An Anthology of Superhero Tales.

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I need to write some end-to-end tests for a Swing GUI application, likely running on Linux. Note that these are not unit tests. I am not testing through the API. Rather I am launching the application (in this case IntelliJ IDEA with our plugins installed) and select menu items, press buttons, read the screen, and so forth.

What tools are folks using for this? Open source strongly preferred (since the plugins we’re testing are open source) but this is not absolutely required.

I made a few adjustments to this site’s custom theme (the first in years) and Google at least now sees it as mobile friendly. To make it truly mobile friendly, I need to figure out what to about the sidebar.

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Chipping Sparrow in Fall Migration, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

This critter was in our garden when I walked Thor this morning; then he rambled up to the AC for a nap: