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Grady Booch on X: “Public pressure works!” – Grace Hopper lectures finally digitized and make public

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/31

Earlier this week NSA posted something I didn’t expect them to get done this soon, not even after all the public pressure about it mid last month (see for instance [Wayback/Archive] Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it • MuckRock):

The were published as 2 YouTube videos(embedded videos below the blog post signature):

  1. 49 minutes [Wayback/Archive] Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) – YouTube
  2. 41 minutes [Wayback/Archive] Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part Two, 1982) – YouTube

More historic lectures at NSA: [Wayback/Archive] National Security Agency/Central Security Service > Helpful Links > NSA FOIA > Declassification & Transparency Initiatives > Historical Releases

Grace Hopper explaining the length of a nanosecond is mentioned in my blog post One second code: Do YOU know how much your computer can do in a second?.

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Rob Joyce on X: “@jpluimers …”
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Grady Booch on X: “Public pressure works! …”
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “When the NSA is too lazy to call the Computer History Museum, Internet Archive or Smithsonian for help digitising the Grace Hopper 1982 landmark lecture AMPEX 1-inch video tapes:”

    [Wayback/Archive] lproven: “Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it buff.ly/4cJWiUA Intelligence agency claims it “no longer has the ability to view” 1982 recording …” – Vivaldi Social

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With the newest PowerToys version, the Microsoft teams shows they forgot about their CUA heritage

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/30

The most recent Microsoft Power Toys version binds to Alt + Spacebar which indicates the Windows team has forgotten about the CUA (Common User Access) heritage.

[Wayback/Archive] PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11 • The Register

And that tells us something else, too: that none of the Microsoft developers involved in building and releasing this tool are old-style keyboard warriors, because since Windows 1.0 in 1985, Alt+space has been the keystroke to invoke the window-management menu. From Windows 2 onwards, the leftmost button on every Windows title bar even looked like a space bar, to remind you. So to maximize a window, it’s Alt+space, x; to minimize, Alt+space, n; to resize with the keyboard, Alt+space, s, and so on.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Stealing Alt+Space for a Power Toy, the Microsoft @Windows team has forgotten about its CUA heritage.”.

--jeroen

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Learning from others: how they use diagrams and notes while debugging (via b0rk – Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/30

A while ago there was this interesting question [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “do you draw diagrams on paper when debugging? what do they look like? I’d love to see examples if anyone is willing to share” that sparked quite a few diagrams I am still learning from.

Some thumbnails are below, but be sure to read them in the responses to the above tweet in full.

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SQL SERVER – How to get historical deadlock Information from System Health Extended Events? – SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/29

A friend of mine needed to figure out SQL Server deadlocks a while ago.

I hadn’t been doing stuff like this for quite some time, but remembered that unlike old SQL Server days, it had become relatively easy.

These links show you how:

Query:

[Wayback/Archive] sql server find deadlock history – Google Search

--jeroen

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What’s Behind A Webpage? Use DevTools To Find Out

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/29

You don’t have to be a web-developer to peek inside the underpinnings of web-pages. In fact what you see is very interesting, for instance from an OSINT perspective.

[Wayback/Archive] What’s Behind A Webpage? Use DevTools To Find Out:

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Tampermonkey script twitter-to-bsky: Crosspost from Twitter/X to Bluesky and Mastodon

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/28

For my TODO list: [Wayback/Archive] twitter-to-bsky

Crosspost from Twitter/X to Bluesky and Mastodon

twitter-to-bsky – crosspost from Twitter/X to Bluesky and Mastodon directly in the web browser

twitter-to-bsky is a userscript written for Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey running in desktop web browsers (Chrome/Firefox/Edge).
It allows to automatically crosspost to Bluesky and/or Mastodon when writing posts in the Twitter/X web application in a desktop browser.
More links:

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Cool nginx playground by b0rk (Julia Evans)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/28

This is a really cool interactive [Wayback/Archive] nginx playground!

It starts with a default nginx configuration which you can edit and spins up a docker container for each run showing the results of that configuration.

How cool is that to learn how nginx works (:

This is how I found out about it:

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Revisited: Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navivate to the canonical link

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/27

I put the proper Bookmarklet wrapper around the functions from Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navivate to the canonical link (because especially Firefox needs them):

An immediately invoked function that returns no value or an expression preceded by the void operator will prevent the browser from attempting to parse the result of the evaluation as a snippet of HTML markup:

javascript:(function(){
  //Statements returning a non-undefined type, e.g. assignments
})();

It means they now have become these:

  • Archive.is: navigate canonical URL

    javascript:(function(){location=document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]')?.href})();

  • Archive.is: prompt canonical URL

    javascript:(function(){prompt("Anchor",document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]')?.href)})();

--jeroen

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Posted in archive.is / archive.today, Archiving, Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Firefox, Internet, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

Belastingaangifte 2023 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/27

Dit jaar was ik er een paar dagen eerder bij dan vorig jaar: meer rust in mijn hoofd na de verhuizing en een betere planning gemaakt rondom de paardrijvakantie van mijn verstandelijk beperkte broer (waar we altijd zorgen daar in de buurt te zijn zodat we indien nodig snel ter plaatse kunnen handelen).

Waarom is deze blog post zo laat?

Het laat heeft er vooral mee te maken dat deze Excel sheet meestal nog een aantal wijzigingen krijgt na de normale deadline van 1 mei. Dus ik begin pas met downloaden de maand voor de echt harde deadline van 1 september.

Waarom dan toch nu de post?

Eigenlijk is dat heel simpel: vooral zodat je kunt zien hoe je aan deze informatie komt ook al wijzigen de locaties: waar vorig jaar het Excel-bestand voor de belastingaangifte nog bij Google stond, staat het deze keer bij WeTransfer.

Dit jaar zijn de linkjes her en der dus behoorlijk anders: meer dan een simpele vervanging van 2022 door 2023 in de start-link van de eerste Google Search onderaan mijn blog-post.

Let ook op (dit vergat ik vorig jaar te vermelden): dit Excel bestand werkt bij mij niet op Office voor MacOS.

Omdat Computer Idee meestal geen jaartallen in de titels van hun artikelen gebruikt, moet je handmatig de zoekresultaten van Google Search door om te zien welke relevant voor aangifte over afgelopen jaar (in dit geval 2023) is/zijn. Vandaar dat ik hieronder op een aantal plekken jaartellen heb toegevoegd:

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I need to contemplate about (not) using standards Commit Messages and Commit Emojis

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/27

These Tweets from Kris are food for thought about using standards for Commit Messages and Commit Emojis.

It is the “writing zzzz by convention” mantra all over the place (where zzzz can be anything from code to documentation): does it add value, should it be formalised, can it by achieved by other means?

I need to think about it later, so I saved his tweets below:

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