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 2026/02/04
Via [Wayback/Archive] Crowbarring Windows 95 into Windows NT with CAPITALS • The Register refers a nice trick that I have used in various case-codebases as well.
On case sensitive environments the casing method is easy no matter if you use macros or just regular identifiers.
On case insensitive environments, prepending or appending soemthing like an underscore (_) works just as well.
The trick referred to is in a section of [Wayback/Archive] How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base? – The Old New Thing:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/04
I like that Mike Luckovich often polls about which cartoon to publish.
Sometimes, I hope he draws both because both are great.
[Wayback/Archive] Post by @mluckovich.bsky.social — Bluesky
Which one should I draw?
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/04
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/03
[Wayback/Archive] From Meh to WOW – With 1 “Tiny” Hack! – YouTube shows an interesting but convoluted solution to solve temperature drift on a cheap Tuya WT410-BH-3A-W thermostat (there are similar models, see below) based on the replacement sensor [Wayback/Archive] WSEN-TIDS Temperature Sensor IC & EV-Kits | Sensors | Würth Elektronik Product Catalog.
Luckily the commenters stepped in and suggest better and easier ways.
On the other hand, the solution is nice to know as it allows plugging in a remote thermostat that sits in a better place to read the temperature while the control bits stay in a place where it is easier to manually adjust.
Chapters:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/03
This method sparked a lot of discussion on social media:
private static string GetPercentageRounds(double percentage)
It is part of [Wayback/Archive] woo-besluit-broncode-digid-app/NFCService.cs at master · MinBZK/woo-besluit-broncode-digid-app which was published after a request according to the Dutch Open Government Act (WOO: Wet Open Overheid).
Even though it services the iOS app, it is written in C# not Swift despite it being client-side code, but that’s not why it sparked a lot of discussion costing more man-hours than the code is worth.
This is the code:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/02
Niet verder vertellen, maar mijn vraag “Iemand een alternatief NPO Soul & Jazz-kanaal met zo min mogelijk geklets overdag, en elk uur een nieuwsbulletin?” is op dit moment nog overbodig.
NPO Soul & Jazz is nog steeds on-line, nog steeds met elk uur een nieuwsbulletin. Alleen de gepresenteerde uitzendingen zijn verdwenen. Dat is in bepaalde opzichten een voordeel: minder geklets, ook ‘s avonds.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/02
[Wayback/Archive] Mac traag, waterschade of kapot? Binnen 2-6 uur gerepareerd
Macleasy BV is een sociaal & duurzaam Mac Reparatie bedrijf uit Utrecht.Jongvolwassenen & MBO-studenten binnen het autisme spectrum repareren op een snelle, vakkundige & duurzame manier Apple MacBooks & iMacs die oud, traag, gecrasht, kapot of waterschade hebben.Door het op een sociale & duurzame manier te laten repareren gaat je Mac 2-7 jaar langer mee, bespaar je tijd, geld, het milieu en creëer je werkgelegenheid.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Dinsdale. – D💉ane ديانا дiане Blijf thuis ⭕️🇺🇦 on Twitter: “@RickvanSoest @RenskeRH Ik heb dit nooit gedaan maar weet sinds kort van een bedrijfje in Utrecht dat oude macs repareert. “.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/31
Meer info: [Wayback/Archive] …. (@jmvtol.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Het bericht over de aanvaring tussen Jean Marc van Tol en het BSKY moderatie-team – hij kwam op de blacklist vanwege een bericht waarvan het op zijn minst discutabel is of hij daarvoor 4 strafpunten hoort te krijgen met daardoor automatisch een 3-daagse ban – stop hij op dat medium.
Kennelijk mag je daar niet uiten dat je blij zou zijn wanneer Trump hemelt: dat wordt geschaard onder dood wensen¹.
Het Fokke en Sukke account is er inmiddels leeg: [Wayback/Archive] Fokke & Sukke (@fokkesukke.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Maar zowel Jean Marc als Fokke en Sukke blijven actief op onder andere Mastodon, zie de linkjes in [Wayback/Archive] Post by @wiert.bsky.social — Bluesky:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 