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Archive for March, 2025

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Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/04

In the past, the Google Hangouts desktop app on Windows would integrate with the system “tray” (actually the notification area) and show you missed chats and calls.

The [Wayback/Archive] Google Chat desktop app does not. It shows missed messages only as a number on the taskbar icon. Even worse: when you close the Window, the taskbar application icon does not show that number any more.

The odd thing is that the Google Duo desktop app does stay active and shows a notification popup on incoming calls. The Google Chat desktop app does not.

So I wanted to restart the Google Chat desktop app automatically when the Window was closed. But there is a catch:

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Use an iPad as a second display for a Mac – Apple Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/03

While recovering from cancer treatments and moving, I heavily cut down on spending money for my IT infrastructure as you can only spend money once.

Now that I have recovered quite a bit, and also gaining more income, I got more recent Apple hardware and could start to use this: [Wayback/Archive] Use an iPad as a second display for a Mac – Apple Support

It’s called Sidecar in Apple terminology and actually quite neat, though you need extra software to use the iPad in portrait mode (it is hard coded to landscape though a 10-inch iPad Pro fits very nicely in portrait position next to a 16-inch M1 MacBook Pro).

If I persist, I need to look at solutions like [Wayback/Archive] Rotated Sidecar · waydabber/BetterDisplay Wiki · GitHub ([Wayback/Archive] GitHub – waydabber/BetterDisplay: Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!)

Sidecar is part of Handoff, so these preconditions apply: [Wayback/Archive] Use Handoff to continue tasks on your other devices – Apple Support.

In the end, I think it is all based on AirDrop, especially because of the first Apple Support link above mentioning these “Additional requirements”:

Via:

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Forrest Brazeal on Twitter about their your process for learning a new technology or framework on the job

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/03

Interesting responses to [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “People who’ve been software engineers for awhile: what’s your process for learning a new technology or framework on the job? (I want the beginners who follow me to read the replies carefully)”.

Not just interesting for beginners to read, but for any developer: understanding how other people acquire new technology helps you to compare your own way of learning to others.

Forrest keeps these simple steps as “[Wayback/Archive] For me:

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Ook voor de overheid is de (ook aangetekende) postbezorging van PostNL slecht: NOS.nl – Zorgen van ombudsman over onbetrouwbare bezorging post van overheid

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/02

Ook voor de overheid is de (ook aangetekende) postbezorging van PostNL slecht: [Wayback/Archive] Zorgen van ombudsman over onbetrouwbare bezorging post van overheid

De bezorging van post van de overheid door PostNL is onbetrouwbaar, stelt de Nationale ombudsman.

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De ombudsman zegt dat de overheid verantwoordelijk blijft voor het bezorgen van de post, ook als die het door PostNL laat doen. “Dus of de overheid zorgt dat de post goed aankomt, of de overheid helpt de burger die hierdoor in de knel komt. Zo simpel is het.”
Kassa vroeg verschillende overheidsinstanties om een reactie op de brief van de ombudsman. Tien instanties reageerden, waaronder de Raad voor de rechtspraak. “Vanuit de Rechtspraak zijn er diverse overleggen geweest met PostNL om PostNL tot verbetering van de (aangetekende) postbezorging te bewegen. Dit lijkt tot op heden helaas tot onvoldoende resultaat te hebben geleid.”

--jeroen

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