Archive for 2025
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/03
Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, FreePascal, Pascal, Power User, Retrocomputing, Software Development | Tagged: ObjectPascal, pascal | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/03
A list of events caused a big set-back in my energy during last quarter from which I am now – with careful planning what I do and when/how I rest – steadily recovering.
I started writing this early may, and finished early june because too much happened and it took me a while to get it from my confused mind onto paper.
One of the things I thought for and hopefully will start after a much needed holiday (the first longer one since 2018) is mental help.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/03
Almost 3 years ago, I wrote about some database/SQL fiddle sites in Database fiddle sites (which covers [Wayback/Archive] two different [Wayback/Archive] dbfiddle sites and the [Wayback/Archive] SQL Fiddle site).
In the meantime, I figured out that [Wayback/Archive] Toolbox for Developers has a few fiddle pages and database/SQL tools online (in their order, which is not alphabetical):
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Posted in Database Development, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, PHP, PostgreSQL, Scripting, Software Development, SQL Server, SQLite, TypeScript | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/02
Since I keep forgetting which DBMS uses which method to select just a plain value without a table. I always remember it as my search phrase [Wayback/Archive] SELECT from DUAL, but actually better titled like the question below:
[Wayback/Archive] sql – SELECT from nothing? – Stack Overflow
Posted in Access, Database Development, DB2, Development, Firebird, InterBase, MariaDB, MySQL, OracleDB, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, SQL, SQL Server, SQLite | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/02
Always learning, I put this book on my wish list for reading: [Wayback/Archive] Effective Software Testing as from what I read it is a pragmatic book aimed at developers and suitable for teaching. That sounds right the niche I am in.
From [Wayback/Archive] Using the book in classroom:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/01
Since this question keeps popping up around me every now and then, despite JSON being around for like 25 years now, this statement from the original designer Douglas Crockford:
[Wayback/Archive] Douglas Crockford – Google+ – Comments in JSON …
I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn’t.
Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.
Yup, Google+ has been dead for more than 6 years now, so it is important to quote these insights for posterity to find them back.
Related:
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Can comments be used in JSON? – Stack Overflow with several answers mentioning the above G+ post.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] json comment – Google Search
--jeroen
Posted in Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/30
I got warned about low disk space on drive C: caused by PowerToys taking 7 gigabytes of stale upgrades: [Wayback/Archive] 396918165-154de37a-432d-4cab-84ee-0f5a54eb6575.png (1370×789).
PowerToys itself does not like this situation either: an update will quit without indicating why.
According to their issue tracker, this should have been fixed in v0.58.0* , but it wasn’t, see [Wayback/Archive] Update installed, but installation files not deleted. · Issue #13296 · microsoft/PowerToys · GitHub
So if you disk runs full, check out for a bunch of powertoyssetup-*.exe (why don’t they use Pascal casing for readability here?) files.
If you get chat notifications, then they will likely overwhelm the PowerToys notification that an update is available as Windows by default only can show the most recent 20 notifications, and it is hard to modify that default:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/30
Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 is charged using a common micro-USB cable (an orange one is included in your Ring box). The micro-USB cable can be plugged into any USB power source such as a computer. Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 will take around five to 10 hours to fully charge depending on whether the USB cable is plugged into a USB port or into a wall outlet.
[Wayback/Archive] Charging the Battery on Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 – Ring Help
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Posted in Hardware, IoT Internet of Things, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Ring Doorbell/Chime (Amazon), Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/27
In 2023 waren we druk bezig met voorbereidingen om te verhuizen, dus toen dit gemist [Wayback/Archive] Nieuwe FM- en DAB-indeling landelijke commerciële radiostations van start | Nieuwsbericht | Rijksoverheid.nl
Het bevat een tabel van de FM-frequenties voor de Nederlandse commerciële radiostations.
- Sky Radio, 101 FM en DAB+
- Radio 10, onder andere 103.0/103.2 FM en DAB+ (was: Radio Veronica)
- Qmusic, 100.4 FM/100.7 FM en DAB+
- BNR, onder andere 91.3/100.1 FM en DAB+
- Radio Veronica, onder andere 91,1/95.2 FM en DAB+ (was: SLAM!)
- Radio 538, 102 FM en DAB+
- JOE, onder andere 103.8/104.1 FM en DAB+ (was: Radio 10)
- Radio4All, onder andere 90.5/90.7 FM en DAB+ (was: Sublime)
- 100% NL, onder andere 104.4/104.6 FM en DAB+
En ja: we luisteren radio hier voornamelijk via FM omdat die – in tegenstelling tot internet streams – het beter doen, en de uitstekende apparatuur uit de jaren 90 hier nog steeds prima functioneert.
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 