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Archive for 2025

How to monitor USB power consumption? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/10

TL;DR: it is impossible on a Mac to accurately measure power usage by attached USB devices. Only a general indication is possible, but it is unreliable.

[Wayback/Archive] How to monitor USB power consumption? – Ask Different

  • System Profiler needs manual refresh and is a very rough indication
  • iStatMenus is a graph, but not very accurate
  • Activity Monitor is even rougher than the above

Related: [Wayback/Archive] View energy consumption in Activity Monitor on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

Via: [Wayback/Archive] macos view usb power usage – Google Search

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »

When Spotlight fails to find some files: mdutil revisited

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/07

On my M1 MacBook, somehow Spotlight started to fail returning some indexed files (especially recently added ones would not show up or it would take a very long while for some of them to show up).

So I revisited mdutil and related commands while writing a comment on the YouTube movie [Wayback/Archive] How To Rebuild the Spotlight Index on Your Mac – YouTube which since then vanished, but luckily I saved it and here I amended it with formatting:

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Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: ‘Not all “utilization” is created equal…’

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/07

From a long time ago, but still fun: [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: ‘Not all “utilization” is created equal…’

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Infrastructure, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Video that depicts why I dislike the LLM outcomes so much (author sofia named it “A shitpost that’s been brewing…”)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/06

Phrased as [Wayback/Archive] sofia: “A shitpost that’s been brewing…” – unstable.systems Mastodon (Glitch Edition) I like this video a lot:

If WordPress killed the video, it has that habit, then you can watch it here: [Wayback/Archive] 30dd92563fd33de3.mp4 or [Wayback/Archive] 41cbd023913c0fd6.mp4

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, LLM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Merging Git repositories without losing history – The Continuous Improver

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/06

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Merging Git repositories without losing history – The Continuous Improver

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, git, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/05

As promised yesterday¹ because “what’s an open source project without its status page” (and some commercial vendors cough Embarcadero cough could highly benefit from this):

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool.

Some links (so you can try it for yourself):

--jeroen

¹ GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Monitoring, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, TypeScript, Vue.js | Leave a Comment »

Infinite loops and the True Meaning of DevOps (Forrest Brazeal on Twitter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/05

[Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “Multiple people on LinkedIn have commented on this to swear they’ve seen people DELIBERATELY SHIP INFINITE LOOPS to justify their infra footprint That, my friends, is the true meaning of DevOps”

which was sparked because of comments on his [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “Not all “utilization” is created equal…” cartoon:

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Posted in Development, DevOps, Infrastructure, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04

Google Docs alternative for self-hosting or hosted usage: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

The project started last month 12 years ago in 2014 as the “realtime collaborative visual editor with zero knowlege server” with the commit [Wayback/Archive] and so it begins · cryptpad/cryptpad@1508c7b · GitHub.

Via¹: [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz: “I’m currently testing Cryptpad for collaborative working.…” – chaos.social

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, CSS, Development, Google, GoogleDocs, HTML, HTML5, Infrastructure, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Monitoring, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, TypeScript, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

CSV To HTML Converter

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04

While blogging, online tools often beat offline or command-line tools, so here there are:

They use JavaScript and do client-side conversion.

There are way more conversion targets (Delimited, Flat File, GeoJSON, HTML Table, JSON, KML, Markdown, Multi-line Data, PDF, SQL, Word, XML, YAML) and operations (Pivot, Transpose, Query with SQL), but the above are what I use most.

–jeroen

Posted in Blogging, CSV, Development, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/03

Interessante video over alternatieven voor een reguliere inlaatcombinatie voor CV ketels: [Wayback/Archive] Waarom ik geen standaard inlaatcombinatie plaats.. deze werken na een paar jaar niet meer goed..🤔 – YouTube

De inlaatcombinatie is 3 apparaten in 1.. een afsluiter, overdrukventiel en keerklep die voorkomt dat er warmwater terug kan lopen naar de koudwaterleiding. Ik plaats altijd een losse kogelafsluiter met controleerbare keerklep, daarnaast plaats ik een losse overstort van 6 bar..

--jeroen

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