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Archive for May 31st, 2017

cov.fefe.de – The Isoblog.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/31

[WayBackcov.fefe.de – The Isoblog.

(it was Scheduled for 09:00 UTC, but after all these years, WordPress.com at random still suffers from the “missed schedule” bug)

Brilliant move. Der Spiegel never had a chance, and even Der Postillion is in awe. (Context).

Yes, cov.fefe.de is the same content as blog.fefe.de.

Via: [WayBack] #covfefe punkt de http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/1833-cov-fefe-de/ – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Background:

–jeroen

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Some notes on stripping NULL characters and BOMs from files

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/31

A while ago I bumped into applications that write alternating UTF-16 and UTF-8 to files without checking what type of encoding the files were using.

So here are some notes to at least save some of the contents.

TODO: figure out how to strip the BOM.

–jeroen

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KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog: A logger for MSBuild that records a structured representation of executed targets, tasks, property and item values

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/31

Cool: KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog: A logger for MSBuild that records a structured representation of executed targets, tasks, property and item values

Basically it parses the XML output into something manageable.

Via Matthijs ter Woord.

–jeroen

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