The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

  • My badges

    Mastodon

  • Twitter Updates

  • My Flickr Stream

    20140508-Delphi-2007--Project-Options--Cannot-Edit-Application-Title-HelpFile-Icon-Theming20140430-Fiddler-Filter-Actions-Button-Run-Filterset-now20140424-VMware-Fusion-6.0.3.-no-reclaimable
    More Photos

  • Pages

  • All categories

  • Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 1,839 other subscribers

Archive for the ‘LifeHacker’ Category

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »

Some tools for conference organisers

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/21

Just in case I ever get involved in organising a conference:

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Angrynerds Podcast – YouTube: hackerhotel review
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Hackerhotel 2020 – Review – YouTube (starts at around the 07:30 mark)
  3. [Wayback/Archive] 2020-03-28-Content-meeting-minutes – MCH2022 wiki
  4. [Wayback/Archive] OrangeCon on X: “@J0R1AN who is giving a workshop on hack the box methodology at Orangecon found a stored XSS on pretalx. (Which would probably be able to make CFP reviewers automatically accept his submission.) It is now fixed. Thanks for the quick response and fix @pretalx” / X

Queries:

–jeroen

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Conferences, Event, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Ein Blick zurück – das beste Auto der 70er Jahre – YouTube – W116 450SEL 6.9 aus der Schweiz

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/15

As a memory to our almost identical Swiss W116 450SEL 6.9 a video in Swiss German about it: [Wayback/Archive] Ein Blick zurück – das beste Auto der 70er Jahre – YouTube.

This one with fabric, white headlights and ABS, ours with leather, yellow headlights plus headlight wipers, and no ABS (it took around chassis numbers ending around 750 until ABS was available: ours was slightly earlier)

--jeroen

Posted in About, cars, LifeHacker, Personal, Power User, W116 | Leave a Comment »

SABRENT USB Charging Station 252 W 8-Port PD 3.0 with LCD Display – GaN Charger Charger – Fast Charging Station for USB-C & USB-A Devices, Laptops, Smartphones – PPS, Overcharge Protection: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/08

This is a cool device as explained in the below video: [Wayback/Archive] SABRENT USB Charging Station 252 W 8-Port PD 3.0 with LCD Display – GaN Charger Charger – Fast Charging Station for USB-C & USB-A Devices, Laptops, Smartphones – PPS, Overcharge Protection: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories

Despite good, I put this comment below the video:

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in ElectricPower, Hardware, LifeHacker, Power User, PSU, USB, USB-C | Leave a Comment »

A retro font: Glass TTY VT220

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/04

Via [Wayback/Archive] Der Kneisner M100 – oder das “once in a lifetime project” | Computermuseum Visselhövede, about an IMSAI 8080 clone, I bumped into the VT220 based Glass TTY VT220 font and found some links of it and it’s modifications which are listed below by category

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in 8080, Development, Font, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LifeHacker, Power User, Retrocomputing, Scripting, Software Development | Tagged: , , , | Leave a Comment »

Ventoy: an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/01

When undergoing cancer treatment, I missed the launch of [Wayback/Archive] Ventoy:

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.
You can copy many files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them.

Source code: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ventoy/Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution. (2020 new, that is, but for me it was actually new)

Wikipedia: Ventoy – Wikipedia

Note there is also [Wayback/Archive] iVentoy, which is a PXE boot tool, but only partially open source and if used commercially you need a license. See:

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Boot, Hardware, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

13 Things No One Tells You About 3D Printing as a Beginner – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/28

[Wayback/Archive] 13 Things No One Tells You About 3D Printing as a Beginner – YouTube only had a numbered index, so I commented the context index:

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in 3D printing, CSS, Development, HTML, LifeHacker, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Analog Audio over Cat 5/6/7 – Building your own panels – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/27

Interesting blog post on patch panels for audio with XLR connectors and ethernet over twisted pair (best to use shielded cable): [Wayback/Archive] Analog Audio over Cat 5/6/7 – Building your own panels – YouTube.

--jeroen

Posted in 19-inch rack, Appliances, Audio, Ethernet, Hardware, Home Audio/Video, LifeHacker, Media, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Watering plants; nice Dutch thread with lots of useful tips

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/27

Interesting Dutch thread on watering plants: it’s not so easy, but the tips in the tread help:

[Archive.is] Jason 🚀 on Twitter: “Hoe weet je hoeveel en wanneer je plant water nodig heeft?”

General guidance:

–jeroen

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Finding back Flickr invoices (via Finding back invoices for Amazon prime membership and Proton Account)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/20

I have been writing about finding back invoices:

To this list, I can now add https://www.flickr.com/account which has a list of past orders including invoices for the Flickr membership (which get downloaded through Stripe so be sure to enable JavaScript for https://invoice.stripe.com too).

--jeroen

Posted in Finance, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Finding back Invoices Amazon prime membership (via Dashboard: Invoices = Proton Account)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/17

A while ago I wrote about Dashboard: Invoices – Proton Account.

From my link archive, here are the links to find back the invoices for Amazon prime membership fees:

--jeroen

Posted in Finance, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »