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Archive for January 7th, 2026

A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/07

SVG can be beautifully crafted XML representing vector graphics with full support for CSS while also supporting raster graphics. [Wayback/Archive] A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau explains how you can do that.

Note that in practice most tools generate horrible SVG and CSS.

Via [Wayback/Archive] I finally get how SVGs work – YouTube

--jeroen


[Wayback/Archive] I finally get how SVGs work – YouTube

Posted in Development, Software Development, SVG, Web Development, XML, XML/XSD | Leave a Comment »

How to Do a UDP Ping in Linux

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/07

Often connections are TCP based, but sometimes UDP is all you have to test with, so I was quite surprised that testing that was quite forward. The solutions by [Wayback/Archive] How to Do a UDP Ping in Linux works on any platform where you can have nmap or netcat on installed (which by now is almost all platforms including Windows):

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, BSD, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, netcat, nmap, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »