–jeroen
Archive for 2019
On my watch list: This is how microservices should be designed…
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/10
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Not sure why: ChromeCast on Harman Kardon BDS 580 series to Samsung MU6100 gives greenish tint
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/09
I had a problem similar to [Archive.is] MX613ST Color space conversion issue (detects YUV instead of RGB) – Google Product Forums.
In my case I had a Chromecast 1st generation connected to a [WayBack] Harman Kardon BDS 580, which was hooked up to a [WayBack] Samsung MU6100 TV.
Everything, especially the white and grey areas, had a greenish tint over it, and I think there was also a purple mismatch.
I think it has to do with YUV versus RGB, similar to [WayBack] Force RGB Color Space over HDMI? – Apple Community.
Though I did not notice that with an Apple TV 4th generation (which you can switch between YCbCr/RGB-High/RGB-Low) hooked up to the same BDS 580.
The solution: plug the Chromecast in the TV, then the ARC (Audio Return Channel) will automatically route the audio to the BDS 580.
–jeroen
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Digitally Free: Censor An Image In GIMP
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/09
I used the tips at [Archive.is] Digitally Free: Censor An Image In GIMP to ensure some sensitive information was redacted from a picture I published on the internet.
dfree got much further than I needed, so I stayed at a Gaussian Blur with an 80 pixel radius which was more than enough to blur out a few rectangular areas but still show the user-experience of the underlying controls.
–jeroen
Source: Digitally Free: Censor An Image In GIMP
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The Secret of Great Gradient – UX Planet
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/09
- Source: [WayBack] The Secret of Great Gradient – UX Planet which has a lot more explanation
- Via: [WayBack] In case you need a gradient, use nature for inspiration :) – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
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R.I.P. Mark Blomsma, R.I.P. Pepijn Smits
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/08
This week I learned that two people I had known from the early Delphi and C# days have passed away recently:
- Mark Blomsma
- Pepijn Smits
- [WayBack] Pepijn Smits (voorzitter TOS Actief) overleden | Amsterdam
- [WayBack] Pepijn Smits 🇪🇺🇳🇱 (@pepijnsmits) | Twitter
- Geliefde voorzitter van TOS-Actief Pepijn Smits (1967-2019) | Het Parool
- [Archive.is] + familieberichten www.online-familieberichten.nl van 23-9-2019 – Google Groups
- [Archive.is] Online Familieberichten; Overleden: Pepijn Smits (15-09-2019)
It’s tough to digest their passing right when starting radiation therapy next week, preparing for surgery in a few months time, my wife having surgery next week, and all of us already having a tough year behind us.
I wish to express my condolences to the families and friends of Mark and Pepijn, especially in the months to come when the world at large has moved on, but the sudden memories and pain still violently kick in.
–jeroen
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Making ISO images of MacOS installers
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/06
For my link archive:
- [WayBack] How to create a Bootable ISO image of macOS 10.13 High Sierra installer – Tyler Woods
Normally you can’t obtain bootable media of macOS. OS X was a different story, but also you had to pay for those versions. As an owner of a MacBook Pro, it’s slightly unsettling that I …
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hdiutil create -o /tmp/HighSierra.cdr -size 5200m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J hdiutil attach /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/install_build mv /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg ~/Desktop/InstallSystem.dmg hdiutil detach /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra hdiutil convert ~/Desktop/InstallSystem.dmg -format UDTO -o ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso mv ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso.cdr ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso
- [WayBack] HOW TO: Create a bootable High Sierra ISO for VMware – Multi-booting and Virtualisation – InsanelyMac Forum
If you want it on USB in stead, the steps are simpler (the link below also links to other OS X and MacOS versions):
If you do not have the full ~5 gigabyte install, then:
- [WayBack] How to Download a Full macOS High Sierra Installer App
Many Mac users who are attempting to download macOS High Sierra from the Mac App Store will find that a small 19 MB version of “Install macOS High Sierra.app” downloads to the /Applicat…
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Google Sites for your domain: map the domain root to a site
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/06
With Google Sites, you you can attach it to your domain like example.org.
In practice the
example.orgdomain is not bound to Google Sites, but everywhere in this post, please substituteexample.orgwith your own domain name.
In Google Sites, you can design web-sites and create “web address mapping” entries for it. However, you can only add a site mapping for a sub-domain.
But what if you want your www.example.org also to be visible as from example.org?
Then you get a nice error message “Required field must not be blank”:
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Need to research eternal “Establishing connection to your Google Cloud Shell”; gcp – Google Cloud Shell does not start – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/06
A while back I had a 
after 
.
The problem is that after a successful “Provisioning your Google Cloud Shell machine”, the “Establishing connection to your Google Cloud Shell” did not go away, while the Cloud Shell Code Editor did work:
It was an awful situation, as the mobile reception was bad (so I could not start a hotspot), and the WiFi did not allow for SSH or VPN connections: exactly the situation where Google Cloud Shell is designed for.
A day later it was fine, so I am still not sure what went wrong, nor how I could get it to work if it ever fails again.
Anyone with an idea?
These are inconclusive:
- “Establishing connection to your Google Cloud Shell” – Google Search
- [WayBack] gcp – Google Cloud Shell does not start – Stack Overflow
It is a different problem than [WayBack] Google App Engine – cloud shell where both the shell and the code editor failed at the same time.
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Playing around with semantic typing in Oxygene: https://github.com/carlokok/…
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/05
Interesting: [WayBack] Playing around with semantic typing in Oxygene: https://github.com/carlokok/semantictyping adding operators and methods to type aliases to store distin… – Carlo Kok – Google+
Playing around with semantic typing in Oxygene: https://github.com/carlokok/semantictyping adding operators and methods to type aliases to store distinct types like distance, speed, acceleration while storing them as floats.
Check the repository linked; It essentially has types like Kelvin, Celsius ( https://github.com/carlokok/semantictyping/blob/master/SemanticTyping/Temperature.pas ), and Speed, Velocity, Acceleration ( https://github.com/carlokok/semantictyping/blob/master/SemanticTyping/Physics.pas ) using standard Oxygene features.
- Repository: [WayBack] GitHub – carlokok/semantictyping: Elements semantic typing
- Celsius/Kelvin: [WayBack] semantictyping/Temperature.pas at master · carlokok/semantictyping · GitHub
- Speed/Distance/Acceleration: [WayBack] semantictyping/Physics.pas at master · carlokok/semantictyping · GitHub
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RAD Studio Custom Editor Sub-views – Dave’s Development Blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/05
This is a reminder to myself to checkout [WayBack] RAD Studio Custom Editor Sub-views – Dave’s Development Blog and see if his [WayBack] Browse and Doc It plugin now supports the editor sub-views.
He also has a great free tool for Delphi: [WayBack] IDE Explorer – Dave’s Development Blog
–jeroen
Via:
- [WayBack] RAD Studio Custom Editor Sub-views – David Hoyle – Google+ (which has a few details on pre Delphi 2010 OTA interfaces for non-sub views that are now deprecated)
- [WayBack] I need some help from anyone who knows RTTI better than me… – David Hoyle – Google+
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