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Snelklaar.nl – 13-duizend gerechten die snel klaar zijn

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/06

[Wayback/Archive] Welkom op Snelklaar.nl, dé culinaire site voor mensen met weinig tijd.

Via:

 

Related:

–jeroen

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Publishing a Github Gist to JSFiddle | Toolbox Tech

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/05

I like JSFiddle, but rather keep source code under my own version control.

I was curious, so queried [Wayback/Archive] gist as jssfiddle – Google Search and found [Wayback/Archive] Publishing a Github Gist to JSFiddle | Toolbox Tech

It has better steps than the official documentation at these links:

  • [Wayback/Archive] Pass response directly from a Github repo – JSFiddle Docs
  • [Wayback/Archive] Display fiddle from a Github repository – JSFiddle Docs

    Demo Directory/

    demo.js
demo.html
demo.css
demo.details
    • demo.[ js | html | css ] contains fiddle code for the specific panel
    • demo.details is a description of the demo written in YAML
    ---
name: Name of the Demo
description: Some description, please keep it in one line
authors:
- John Doe
- Jan Wisniewski
resources:
- http://some.url.com/some/file.js
- http://other.url.com/other_filename.css
normalize_css: no
load_type: d
...
  • [Wayback/Archive] Display fiddle from Gist – JSFiddle Docs

    Read a demo from Github Gist and present it as a fiddle.

    Gist files structure

    fiddle.js
fiddle.html
fiddle.css
fiddle.manifest
    File name
    Description
    fiddle.[js/html/css]
    Contains fiddle code for the specific panel
    fiddle.manifest
    YAML description of the Gist for JSFiddle to parse
    		 
    Manifest file example
name: The Name of the Fiddle
description: Some description, please keep it in one line
authors:
  - John Doe
  - Jan Wisniewski
resources:
  - http://some.url.com/some/file.js
  - http://other.url.com/other_filename.css
normalize_css: no
wrap: bpanel_js: 1
panel_css: 1
    Manifest fields
    • panel_html – Language for HTML panel. Accepts:
      • 0 – HTML
    • panel_css – Language for CSS panel. Accepts:
      • 0 – CSS
      • 1 – SCSS
    • panel_js – Language for the JS panel. Accepts:
      • 0 – JavaScript
      • 1 – CoffeeScript
      • 2 – JavaScript 1.7
    • resources – List of external resources.
    • name – Fiddle title
    • description – Fiddle description
    • normalize_css – Normalize CSS by loading normalize.css before any CSS declarations.
      • yes – normalize
      • no – don’t normalize
    • wrap – Set the JS code wrap. Options:
      • l – On load
      • d – On DOM ready

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, gist, GitHub, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSFiddle, Scripting, Software Development, Source Code Management | 1 Comment »

Bookmarklet to navigate from a page to the most recent saved WayBack machine entry

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/04

A while ago, while writing last weeks post XPath based bookmarklets for Archive.is: more JavaScript fiddling!, I needed the most recent WayBack Machine archival of

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript

I vaguely remembered replacing the normal timestamp with a 3 and 13 zeros, so I tried this

https://web.archive.org/web/30000000000000/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript

And indeed, it did a HTTP 302 redirect to

https://web.archive.org/web/20220312161117/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript

So I quickly made this bookmarklet:

javascript:location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/30000000000000/'+document.location.href;

Then I created another one for getting the screenshot:

javascript:location=location.href.replace(/^https:\/\/web\.archive\.org\/save\/http/,'https://web.archive.org/web/30000000000000/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/http')

That works for screenshots archived with a Wayback Machine account, as these are related because of the inserted http://web.archive.org/screenshot/ fragment:

Since the Wayback Machine always looks for the closest savet timestamp, it does not matter the timestamps in these archived pages have a slight mismatch.

Memory lane

20231006: I edited this section referring two prior blog posts instead of one because of [Wayback/Archive] pbeccard: “@wiert @oliof You can also use…” – Mastodon (clearly showing that Mastodon like any social media platform does mangle backtick quoted code):

@wiert @oliof You can also use `javascript:location.href=’web.archive.org/web/*/’+docume to get the overview. I find this quite useful since I often want an older version of a page.

And later in the reply chain:

[Wayback/Archive] pbeccard: “@wiert @oliof Ah, I thought b…” – Mastodon

@wiert @oliof Ah, I thought by now that maybe Markdown is supported. I pulled the bookmarklet out of my bookmarklet bookmark folder. Here is a copy: https://gist.github.com/corppneq/d61e3…

[Wayback/Archive] Gist: Bookmarklets

I also found back two blog posts:

  1. Need to write a proper bookmarklet for the wayback archive (: mentioning many useful Wayback Machine JavaScript Bookmarklets from my gist [Wayback/Archive] Ideas/inspiration for writing a proper WayBack archive.org bookmarklet including this one:

    [Wayback/Archive] http://www.gyford.com/misc/wayback.html

      • WayBack:

        javascript:location.href='http://web.archive.org/web/*/'+document.location.href;

    I also archived this referred page: [Wayback/Archive] Bookmarklets.com – What’s New.

  2. JavaScript bookmarklet to replace part of the WayBack machine URL with a bookmarklet replacing

    JavaScript bookmarklet to replace part of the WayBack machine URL:

    A bookmarklet that goes to the latest rendered saved version (sometimes saved versions have not been rendered yet, so you get the latest available render):

    javascript:location=location.href.replace(/^https:\/\/web\.archive\.org\/save\/http/,'https://web.archive.org/web/30000000000000/http')

    The WayBack Machine uses a 14-position ID and tries to find the render that is the most close by. This is the format of the ID:

    yyyymmddhhmmss

    This is granular enough, as the WayBack machine only allows new saves that are usually 30+ minutes apart.

    (Note that period by now seems to be increased from 30+ minutes to 45+ minutes)

It also found back this post having the same huge number: 0.30000000000000004.com. How cool is WordPress search (:

–jeroen

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B0rk on her blog: Celebrate tiny learning milestones

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/03

I celebrate my tiny milestones by writing blog posts on the things I learn.

What is your way to celebrate them?

Read [Wayback/Archive] Celebrate tiny learning milestones, especially this bit:

It’s really helpful for me to celebrate tiny milestones like this. I celebrate a lot by writing blog posts – I wrote the above list mostly by looking at my list of old blog posts for things I’d written about related to C.
If you don’t blog (it’s definitely not for everyone!), it can be helpful to write down this kind of thing in your [Wayback/Archive] brag document instead.
But I do think it’s important to celebrate these milestones somewhere. It gives me a real sense that I’m making progress and it helps me stay motivated to keep learning about the thing.

–jeroen

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Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption | Hackaday

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/02

[Wayback/Archive] Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption | Hackaday is long and worth reading.

For me the most important bits are how to prevent SD card wear:

  1. use good quality power supplies
  2. put write-heavy operations to SSD
  3. if it suits your use-case, use OverlayFS

The first is always a good idea. It is the primary reason all our electronics live behind a UPS:

In addition, I posted my personal experience (Samsung microSD cards last way longer than SanDisk cards) on Twitter:

[Wayback/Archive] @hackaday I’m have been running a few Raspberry Pi systems with 8-32Gb micro-SD cards as web-dashboard with refreshes every few minutes or so: much write access. When using Sandisk (no matter the type) they last about a year, Samsung (no matter the type) cards last multiple years.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] hackaday on Twitter: “Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption https://t.co/R8KNVmQORD” / Twitter

EMP

We had a lightning strike in the evening on 20181111 some 50 meters from our home.

It killed immediately killed this (some pictures further below):

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Getting a local VM disk to OVH (or most any VM hoster) is as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (dd, gzip ssh, gunzip, dd)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/29

This is why I love nx:

Actually, saving the OVH image first is another 1, 2, 3, 4 (ssh, dd, gzip, dd).

Speed wasn’t bad BTW: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles🏳️‍🌈 on Twitter: “Done 167772160+0 records in 167772160+0 records out 85899345920 bytes (86 GB, 80 GiB) copied, 2481.09 s, 34.6 MB/s [root@arch ~]#” / Twitter

–jeroen

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The JavaScript bookmarklets that saved me a lot of time documenting the Embarcadero docwiki outage

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/28

Winter 2022, the Embarcadero docwiki (their most active site which contains all documentation for all their products) was down. Twice. First for a week, then parts of it for almost a week, then only parts of the Alexandria got up in a stable way.

Back then I published The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.. The product and library documentation for the most recent version got back up in a week, but the Code Examples and older product versions took much longers.

Usually once learns way more about a system when it is failing then when it is working. That was the case this system as well.

Documenting the failing system took considerable time, but would have taken way more if not for these two JavaScript browser bookmarklets:

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Javascript – Copy string to clipboard as text/html – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/27

For my link archive is the below answer that should help me a lot with unfinished bits from Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs.

Goal of that post was to have some grounding and eventually find a means to build an HTML page in a new tab using a bookmarklet that I then later could post to my blog.

Assembling to HTML and putting it on the clipboard might be a lot easier and better fitting in my workflow.

So, via [Wayback/Archive] javascript copy html to clipboard – Google Search, for my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Javascript – Copy string to clipboard as text/html – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Loilo for answering and [Wayback/Archive] kofifus for asking):

Below is a function that will do exactly that. I tested it with your required browsers, it works in all of them. However, IE 11 will ask for confirmation on that action.

Explanation how this works can be found below, you may interactively test the function out in this jsFiddle.

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Posted in Chrome, Development, Firefox, HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSFiddle, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Maarten van Smeden on Twitter: “Peer review proces explained (video)”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/26

[Wayback/Archive] Maarten van Smeden on Twitter: “Peer review proces explained …” / Twitter

–jeroen

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Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Did you know that if you press CTRL + ALT + Tab then the ALT + Tab UI will stay open without you having to continue holding the keys down? 👀” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/25

[Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman 🌺 on Twitter: “Did you know that if you press CTRL + ALT + Tab then the ALT + Tab UI will stay open without you having to continue holding the keys down? 👀” / Twitter

I didn’t, so I suggested this:

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@JenMsft Works best if you do not use one single hand to press these keys at once.” / Twitter

–jeroen

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