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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/09
Interesting as I know very little about fonts in Japan and the evolution:
[Wayback/Archive] Fontendo (@Fontendou) / Twitter
Identifying & documenting fonts, obscure and otherwise from video games and other media.
It is by [Wayback/Archive] Kaihatsu (@KaihatsuYT) / Twitter
Creativity through culture, & cultural literacy through games. Type designer in Japan.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] What’s the deal with this font? – YouTube
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/08
I feel old, because I vividly remember the PCX (1985) graphics file format: it was the defacto standard under DOS.
TIFF (1986) was slightly younger, and came from the scanner background resulting in very large files though unlike PCX (which had lossless compression), TIFF supported both lossless and lossy compression.
On Windows and OS/2, you had BMP (1985, lossless initially only black and white).
All three suffered from the same problems: different implementations causing all sorts of compatibility problems
Those were the reason for the implementation of newer file formats for graphics like JPG (1992, lossy) and PNG (1996, lossless).
[Wayback/Archive] What was before JPEG? #pcx #shorts – YouTube – @Vitaskhr
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/08
Cool: [Wayback/Archive] Triink – low power BLE E-Paper Clock | Hackaday.io
Video: [Wayback/Archive] Triink Assembly – Hackaday.io Project – YouTube
Via: [Wayback/Archive] atc1441 on Twitter: “Released my project for the @hackaday 2023 Low Power Challenge 2023 to @hackadayio The Triink BLE E-Paper Clock”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/07
SVG can be beautifully crafted XML representing vector graphics with full support for CSS while also supporting raster graphics. [Wayback/Archive] A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau explains how you can do that.
Note that in practice most tools generate horrible SVG and CSS.
Via [Wayback/Archive] I finally get how SVGs work – YouTube
--jeroen
[Wayback/Archive] I finally get how SVGs work – YouTube
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/07
Often connections are TCP based, but sometimes UDP is all you have to test with, so I was quite surprised that testing that was quite forward. The solutions by [Wayback/Archive] How to Do a UDP Ping in Linux works on any platform where you can have nmap or netcat on installed (which by now is almost all platforms including Windows):
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, BSD, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, netcat, nmap, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/06
The algorithm got me to the first video of this list: [Wayback/Archive] pierogi engineering – YouTube – search – hard drive
It’s similar to a longer second video that also does balancing using the gyroscopic effect of the moving platters.
Nice!
Video links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/06
Everytime when installing a pfSense router from scratch, I seem to re-learn a few of the below quirks. So it was finally time to document them (:
Quite a few of my pfSense configurations are just doing routing between various networks, should not provide DHCP leases and do not always need or have a WAN connected (i.e. they are LAN-only).
Posted in Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Cyberchef, Development, DHCP, Encoding, Event, Hardware, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers, Software Development, SSH, TCP, TLS, UDP | Tagged: 8846 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/05
It took me a few queries to find the correct online solution for this problem: after adding a TrueType (and it’s extension: OpenType) font using the built-in MacOS Font Book, they do not show up in Pages or Preview, not even after validating the fonts in Font Book.
Solutions:
launchctl kickstart -k gui/`id -u`/com.apple.xtyped
The last one does not work on my Apple Silicon machine, the first two work fine.
For Preview, you have to Force Quit it then start it (so it re-opens all the previous files) to take effect.
I needed this, because I
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/05
At the time of writing (during the Covid-19 Pandemic) the [Wayback/Archive] Product Comparison – GL.iNet contains the below products.
I got 3 of them (2 are variations of the same model) and their quality/price ratio is great, even with the prices that risen during the 2020-onwards global chip shortage.
Posted in Ethernet, GL-AR300M, GL.iNet, GL.iNET GL-SFT1200, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/04
Another classic UNIX system has died.
The final version of HP-UX has, as of 3 days ago, officially hit “obsolescence” and is no longer supported.
While most versions of HP-UX had hit “end of life” some years back, version 11i v3 (specifically for Itanium servers) was still supported. At least… until the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve.
HP-UX joins the likes of IRIX (support ended in 2013).
Luckily there are still a few classic style UNIX systems in production… but the list is growing smaller with each passing year.
https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2007699486039027954
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