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Archive for July, 2026

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SKÅDIS series – IKEA

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/31

[Wayback/Archive] SKÅDIS Series – IKEA

SKÅDIS is an extremely versatile pegboard that you can rearrange endless times. Add containers, shelves, letter holders and elastics and keep your things organised and tidily gathered where you can always find them. In your kitchen, hallway, study or bathroom, it’s perfect for keeping things handy.

Related:

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No, the Delphi IfThen functions do perform do lazy evaluation

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/30

Ever since introduction of the IfThen functions introduced in Delphi Delphi 2007 in both the Math and StrUtils units (see WayBack radstudio2007 HUpdate4 EN delphivclwin32.pdf ¹), I have been telling people that these do not perform lazy evaluation of the then and else parts which the if/then/else statement provides.

The newly introduced if/then/else ternary conditional operator in Delphi 13 ² (of which I am not a fan, not even of the generic workaround³) – despite the unlucky number – luckily also provides lazy evaluation of the then and else parts.

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What happens this year? (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, … France takes nuclear reactors offline amid record heatwave | Euronews)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/30

Last year, again at least France had to shut down multiple nuclear power reactors.

A very to the point comment was made: [Wayback/Archive] André Vatter | @avatter: “”Grundlastkraftwerke” 🤣…” – Mastodon (German Grundlastkraftwerk is base load power plant in English):

He quoted [Wayback/Archive] Frankreich schaltet Atomreaktoren wegen Hitze ab | Euronews which has an English version too at [Wayback/Archive] France takes nuclear reactors offline amid record heatwave | Euronews:

During heatwaves, as rivers warm naturally, operators must cut or reduce output to stay within legally mandated discharge temperature limits.

An English article has a more precise description at [Wayback/Archive] Nuclear reactors taken offline in France, as extreme heat pushes river temperatures into danger zone . At the time of writing, they mention about 10% of the French nuclear power capacity – by many regarded as “base load power plants” – had been completely shut down or greatly reduced in capacity.

In 2025, the same happened but not only in France: the Swiss also had to shut down: [Wayback/Archive] Nuclear power plants shut down in France and Switzerland as heatwave impacts river cooling – The Watchers

Same in 2024: [Wayback/Archive] EDF cuts nuclear production in reaction to soaring temperatures | Euronews

And in 2023, besides high cooling water temperatures ([Wayback/Archive] France’s nuclear power stations to limit energy output due to high river temperatures | Euronews), they also had to reduce capacity, but now for maintenance reasons: [Wayback/Archive] France / EDF Cuts Nuclear Output Forecast For 2023, Citing ‘Busy Programme Of Work’ On Reactor Fleet

I wonder what happens this year.

--jeroen

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Pack of 30 NFC Tags NFC Cards NFC 215 Day Ntag215 NFC Tag ios Rewritable NFC Card Compatible with iPhone TagMo and Amiibo, 504 Byte Memory Fully Programmable for NFC Enabled Devices (25 mm) : Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/30

Pack of 30 NFC Tags NFC Cards NFC 215 Day Ntag215 NFC Tag ios Rewritable NFC Card Compatible with iPhone TagMo and Amiibo, 504 Byte Memory Fully Programmable for NFC Enabled Devices (25 mm)Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Pack of 30 NFC Tags NFC Cards NFC 215 Day Ntag215 NFC Tag ios Rewritable NFC Card Compatible with iPhone TagMo and Amiibo, 504 Byte Memory Fully Programmable for NFC Enabled Devices (25 mm) : Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “@ilthea @elborro NFC Tags NTAG215 NFC Ronde Kaarten NFC 215 Kaarttag Compatibel met TagMo en Amiibo, 504 Bytes Geheugen Volledig Programmeerbaar voor NFC-apparaten (30 stuks)”

–jeroen

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GitHub – yoeo/guesslang: Detect the programming language of a source code

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/29

I wanted to detect the programming language of some code I wasn’t sure what it was written in.

A quick search found [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – yoeo/guesslang: Detect the programming language of a source code

Apps powered by Guesslang

 

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, automatic language detection

That was cool, as I always have vscode installed.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] detect programming language of source code at DuckDuckGo

--jeroen

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Sketchplanations on Twitter: “The curb-cut effect: when we design for disabilities we make things better for everyone. From Angela Glover Blackwell at @policylink”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/29

So true in any line of work (especially web applications!):

[Wayback/Archive] Sketchplanations on Twitter: “The curb-cut effect: when we design for disabilities we make things better for everyone. From Angela Glover Blackwell at @policylink”

Image ID: The curb-cut effect: A range of people of all ages next to a crossing, road, and park show how the curb cut design for disabilities benefits everyone

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PowerShell Get-WinEvent XML Madness: Getting details from event logs – Ashley McGlone – disappeared from blogs.technet.microsoft.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/28

This post originally appeared on [Wayback/Archive] PowerShell Get-WinEvent XML Madness: Getting details from event logs – GoateePFE – Archived, but due to link rot got lost including the images. I restored this post from the Wayback Machine archived version including the comments so the content gets re-indexed in search engines as this was one of the few posts detailing how to filter and extract XML from Windows Event logs using PowerShell.

I needed this content for a future blog post that is going to appear in a day or so: Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume

Queries:

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Some notes on syncing/transferring Android apps and settings to another phone

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/28

Because of my tweet series starting at [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “Migrating from an Android phone to a new Android phone is still a horrible experience. Most apps need you to re-authenticate. Few support password managers. Even fewer migrate settings well (like browser bookmarks and open tabs, launcher preferences, backup folders, etc)”

Since then I assisted a few other migrations as well, so below are the notes I made during the migrations.

First about migration apps:

Application and settings notes after transfering data through OnePlus Clone Phone from migrating phones of multiple people:

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GitHub – Botspot/bvm: Windows 11 Virtual Machine on ARM Linux

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/27

This is way easier than I thought (but you need Raspberry Pi 5 or it will be dead slow on earlier models): [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Botspot/bvm: Windows 11 Virtual Machine on ARM Linux

And yes, there are other write-ups for doing this, but this repository is so much easier and reliable than the others.

Did not test it outside of Raspbian yet, so not sure on which other distributions it runs. It will likely run on more plainDebian, but my guess is that Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE and others will be out.

Oh: better use NVMe instead of MicroSD for speed too.

Via:

--jeroen

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Artikel 13 WBR voorkomt dubbele belasting bij doorverkoop

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/27

In artikel 13 van de Wet op belastingen van rechtsverkeer (WBR) staat dat je geen dubbele belasting betaalt als een huis twee keer van eigenaar wisselt binnen zes maanden. Bij de tweede overdracht krijgt de nieuwe koper een korting op de overdrachtsbelasting. Dit noemen we ook wel het artikel 13 verschil. De wet gunt dit voordeel aan de koper, maar in de koopakte kun je afspreken dat dit voordeel aan de verkoper toekomt. Dit laatste houdt in dat de koper bovenop de koopprijs nog een extra bedrag betaalt aan de verkoper.

[Wayback/Archive] Artikel 13 WBR voorkomt dubbele belasting bij doorverkoop

Voorbeeld: [Wayback/Archive] Huis te koop: Breedstraat 5 3512 TS UTRECHT – Punt Makelaars

Queries:

–jeroen

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