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Archive for September 25th, 2025

30+ years of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines from 1985 (and earlier Lisa / Apple II equivalents)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25

I hope someone has also archived all these in the Internet Archive as this is a great collection of historic material: [WaybackSave/Archive] GitHub – gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, et al.

If you have more of them: add them via a pull-request.

Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion : Apple : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A client that went belly up in the early 1990s had all these and similar books. In retrospect, I though have found a way to obtain them but back then I didn’t value the uniqueness of them enough and didn’t have the storage space for it (I lived in a 30m² apartment).

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Posted in //e, 68k, Apple, Apple Lisa, Classic Macintosh, Development, Hardware, History, Mac, NeXT, Power User, Software Development, User Experience (ux) | Leave a Comment »

Tefal secure 5 neo snelkookpan – Lauriekoek

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25

Op de wensenlijst: [Wayback/A] Tefal secure 5 neo snelkookpan – Lauriekoek

De pan lijkt goedkoper in Duitsland dan in Nederland.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Terug van nooit echt weggeweest: de snelkookpan – Lauriekoek.

EU Amazon prijzen [Wayback/Archive] HotEuDeals Search Result – Tefal secure 5 neo

--jeroen

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bash alias to decode email Quoted-Printable stdin data

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25

Perl isn’t my strength, so I was glad to find the below links that inspired me to add this bash function to my profile decoding Quote-Printable email data (for instance used by sendmail and postfix to store SMTP message files):

# https://superuser.com/questions/1452249/fix-revert-wrong-encoding-of-file
function sendmail-decode-quoted-printable-from-stdin() {
  perl -0777 -ne 'use MIME::QuotedPrint; print decode_qp($_)'
}

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Perl, Power User, Python, Scripting, sendmail, Software Development | Leave a Comment »