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Archive for May 13th, 2026

Beeper — All your chats in one app

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/13

[Wayback/Archive] Beeper — All your chats in one app

Via a friend that mentioned Beeper to me.

On the list to try out somewhere during the year.

It is open source; some more links:

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Posted in Chat, Development, Discord, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Facebook, git, GoogleChat, IRC, LinkedIn, Power User, Signal messenger, SocialMedia, Software Development, Source Code Management, Telegram, Twitter, WhatsApp | Leave a Comment »

An easier to understand first time Scoop install command

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/13

The Scoop repository lists this first time Scoop install command at [Wayback/Archive] ScoopInstaller/Scoop: A command-line installer for Windows. – installation:

Run the following command from a non-admin PowerShell to install scoop to its default location C:Users<YOUR USERNAME>scoop.

iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex

[Wayback/Archive] ScoopInstaller/Install: 📥 Next-generation Scoop (un)installer is very similar:

Run this command from a non-admin PowerShell to install scoop with default configuration, scoop will be install to C:Users<YOUR USERNAME>scoop.

irm get.scoop.sh | iex
# You can use proxies if you have network trouble in accessing GitHub, e.g.
irm get.scoop.sh -Proxy 'http://<ip:port>' | iex

The Scoop homepage at [Wayback/Archive] Scoop.sh is not much better:

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Posted in Batch-Files, CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scoop, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »