Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10
It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.
The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.
At year’s end, I will know for sure.
Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.
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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
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/04
Ook vandaag even een herinnering aan de NLUUG voorjaarsconferentie 2026 van (komende) donderdag 7 2026 mei in het Van der Valk Hotel Utrecht¹.
Deze keer omdat een goede vriend van me daar spreekt. Arjen Lentz heeft het over A Wizard’s Guide to Foreseeing the Unseen.
Dat klinkt misschien vaag, het concrete resultaat is dat je met analyse van CVE’s veel te weten komt over hun echte root cause. Die blijkt verrassend voorspelbaar, is fixbaar, en kennis daarover is niet alleen nuttig voor adversaries. Het kan jou namelijk helpen bij de development en selectie van wat je zelf gebruikt.
Het volledige programma staat hieronder², eerst de aankondiging van [Wayback/Archive] L⭕️rd Quux RCX CCX: “Over een week is het zover! De enige NLUUG conferentie van 2026. …” – Mastodon
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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:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/01
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/30
Found this while trying to find the source from which I constructed this Bookmarklet which from a Tweet URL returns the JSON metadata which has all the links to media (like images and videos) as it failed for broadcasts:
javascript:{ tweetID = document.location.href.split('/').filter(e => e).slice(-1); url = new URL(`https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/tweet-result?id=${tweetID}&token=!`); open(url); }
I could not find that back, but did find [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – offish/twitter-broadcast-downloader: Download Twitter broadcasts/lives via these query steps:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/30
Last 90 days uptime on 20260427 of the GitHub Platform: 87.25%
Because of two alternative GitHub status pages, a lot of people now realise that GitHub gives a rosier result than the official pages.
April uptime not even had one nine, dropping below 89%.
Which begs this interesting question
“How many other services are painting a far rosier picture than reality on their service status pages?” by Dare Obasanjo: “GitHub just published a blogpo…” – mas.to:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/29
Donderdag 7 mei 2026 geeft Jorrit Geels op de NLUUG voorjaarsconferentie in het Van der Valk Hotel Utrecht¹ een presentatie over eenvoudigere ontwerpen, duidelijkere mentale modellen en beter onderhoudbare code.
Hoe je dat krijgt? Zet digitale toegankelijkheid consequent op nummer 1, en de rest volgt.
Het resultaat? Je product wordt voor iedereen beter, waardoor alle gebruikers veel effectiever zijn en je boven je concurrentie uitstijgt.
Het programma staat hieronder², eerst de aankondiging van [Wayback/Archive] Vereniging NLUUG: “Toegankelijkheid wordt vaak ge…” – NLUUG Mastodon server:
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