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Archive for February 18th, 2025

Twitter image size suffixes reloaded: pbs.twimg.com URL information

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/18

It’s almost

Goal of the current post amend the above posts with information so I can later write a bookmarklet or web-page with JavaScript that – from a x.com or twitter.com – tweet URL can get the JSON, then the images and/or videos in all sizes, then generate a web-page from it for Wayback Machine archival.

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Posted in Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Development | Tagged: , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Code52/carnac: A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard (on Windows systems)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/18

I unconsciously wanted a tool like this for a long time, and was glad I finally searched for it:

A keyboard logging and presentation utility for presentations, screencasts, and to help you become a better keyboard user.

[Wayback/Archive] Code52/carnac: A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard

The first time I saw something similar was in the Delphi days where it was part of a plugin for CodeRush in Delphi (think Delphi 5-6 era), the famous developer productivity tool by Mark Miller that later got rewritten for Visual Studio and became part of DevExpress.

So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] windows show keystrokes – Google Search which found [Wayback/Archive] How to show keystrokes on Windows 10 which in turn mentioned a fork of Carnac.

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Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Hardware, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »