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Archive for March 3rd, 2026

Decoding HTML encoded source to XML text

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/03

For Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume I needed to copy back and forth some XML code back and forth between my ARM MacBook Pro to a remote Windows machine accessing via the Microsoft Windows App (the app formerly known as Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac).

The problem with that is the copying would lose line breaks, which for XML meaning is no problem, but for human understandability while editing the XML in the Event View query dialog was.

So I decided to go to the “Code” view in my Classic WordPress editor (did I ever tell you much I dislike – especially the accessibility of – the not so new but still haughty named Gutenberg editor?), copied the HTML encoded form and wanted to convert it to unencoded XML text.

Well, here I got to naming confusion land, on which I will talk further below, but first two of the potential solutions:

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Posted in Cyberchef, Development, Encoding, HTML, Software Development, URL Encoding, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Why octal is important (via @jpluimers on Twitter: “@b0rk @jilles_com Acids vs bases.”)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/03

A few years back I tweeted [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@b0rk @jilles_com Acids vs bases.”

Ph scale of acids vs bases.

It was a kind of tongue-in-cheek reaction (with a way better picture below) to a very valuable post by b0rk (Julia Evans) on both Twitter and Mastodon [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “bases” / [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans: “bases title: bases # we usually…” – Mastodon for two reasons:

  1. There are various interpretations of bases
  2. Octal is very important to educate as errors introduced by its support are hard to spot even if you do know about octal.

Back to Julia’s post:

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