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If you use Session Buddy, you might want to reconsider: it only saves the session infrequently

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/22

I was shocked reading [WayBack] An alternative to Session Buddy: “Tabs Backup & Restore” · Issue #742 · deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender · GitHub: the save frequency is about 1 per browser restart. Which is quite odd when you use it to protect against tabs messing up (it happens, right when you do not expect it, after which a “Restore” by chrome fails too).

So after years of using

[Archive.is] Session Buddy – Chrome Web Store: Manage Browser Tabs and Bookmarks with Ease

I have switched away to

[WayBack] Tabs Backup & Restore – Chrome Web Store: With ‘Tabs Backup & Restore’ you will never lose your work again! Backup an entire Chrome session (windows and tabs).

–jeroen

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pure-bash-bible/README.md – book for doing things in bash without external tools

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/21

[WayBack] pure-bash-bible/README.md at master · dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible · GitHub:

The goal of this book is to document known and unknown methods of doing various tasks using only built-in bash features. Using the snippets from this bible can help remove unneeded dependencies from scripts and in most cases make them faster. I came across these tips and discovered a few while developing neofetch, pxltrm and other smaller projects.

The snippets below are linted using shellcheck and tests have been written where applicable. Want to contribute? Read the CONTRIBUTING.md. It outlines how the unit tests work and what is required when adding snippets to the bible.

See something incorrectly described, buggy or outright wrong? Open an issue or send a pull request. If the bible is missing something, open an issue and a solution will be found.

Via:

—jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/21

Interesting tool:

I wrote a program to clean up scans of handwritten notes while simultaneously reducing file size.

Source: Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes [WayBack]

via:

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TJoe’s personal favorite in form, function, and simplicity… paper plane!

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/21


TJoe’s personal favorite in form, function, and simplicity.

Joe Heche is completely right:

  1. Just look at the plane.
  2. Then try to imagine how far it will go.
  3. Now watch the video below.
  4. Then compare it to how to build the longest flying paper plane building videos and flight videos after that.

Isn’t the one on the right brilliant?

Source: National Paper Airplane Day TJoe’s personal favorite in form, function, and simplicity…

Thanks Joe!

–jeroen

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20 things you didn’t know you could do with Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/20

After [WayBack] 20 years of Google: [WayBack] 20 things you didn’t know you could do with Search: Read the rest of this entry »

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The 10 commandments of navigating code reviews | TechBeacon

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/20

[WayBack] The 10 commandments of navigating code reviews | TechBeacon:

How to survive, and thrive, in the sometimes-caustic world of code reviews.

Summary:

  1. Thou shalt not take it personally
  2. Thou shalt not marry thy code
  3. Thou shalt consider all feedback
  4. Thou shalt articulate thy rationale
  5. Thou shalt be willing to compromise
  6. Thou shalt contribute to others’ code reviews
  7. Thou shalt treat submitters how thou would like to be treated
  8. Thou shalt not be intimidated by the number of comments
  9. Thou shalt not repeat the same mistakes
  10. Thou shalt embrace the nits

Via: [WayBack] Kevlin Henney – Google+: The 10 commandments of navigating code reviews

–jeroen

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MahdiSafsafi/ImmersiveColors: Easy way to access Windows 10 Immersive colors

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/20

Source: MahdiSafsafi/ImmersiveColors: Easy way to access Windows 10 Immersive colors

via: [WayBack] This is just what I tried to find, but could not figure out what those colors are called :)But anyways some Delphi-superhero has done all work for us… – Tommi Prami – Google+

–jeroen

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SVN Git Mirror – cloning SVN into git and keeping them in sync

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/20

Based on

More references and ideas:

—jeroen

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Reminder to self: check if this has been solved – [RSP-19557] TParallel.Join does not create enough threads – Embarcadero Technologies

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/19

Delphi 10.1 Berlin broke [RSP-19557] TParallel,Join does not create enough threads – Embarcadero Technologies. It was reported 9 months ago, and since it took quite some longer than a year for a new Delphi version to be released, I wonder if it is fixed by now.

Related:

–jeroen

 

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Vysor standalone downloads

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/19

I wrote about Vysor before, but totally forgot to mention that for like 2 years there have been (initially beta) standalone versions of Vysor based on the Electron framework that is also used by the Atom.io editor and Visual Studio code.

So here they are (:

Over time, these have been updated with new versions.

Web site source: https://github.com/koush/vysor.io

–jeroen

History:

Related:

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