Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10
It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.
The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.
At year’s end, I will know for sure.
Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/19
With the permission of Adobe Systems Inc., the Computer History Museum is pleased to make available, for non-commercial use, the source code to the 1990 version 1.0.1 of Photoshop. All the code is here with the exception of the MacApp applications library that was licensed from Apple. There are 179 files in the zipped folder, comprising about 128,000 lines of mostly uncommented but well-structured code. By line count, about 75% of the code is in Pascal, about 15% is in 68000 assembler language, and the rest is data of various sorts.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/adobe-photoshop-source-code/
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/19
Two links that helped me with the Dutch ING baking app:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/19
TL;DR: it failed
Since GL.iNET does not support site-to-site “Peer to Peer” OpenVPN (only “Remote Access” is supported) which is needed to route to/from the networks on both sides of the connection. the below did fail.
Original idea
Below was what I hoped to function.
Some links that should get me started (though my situation is a tad more difficult, see below):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/18
I have had JavaScript disabled by default for years now, which means that:
- if your site requires JavaScript, I will opt for an alternative
- I will block anything ad related, even if it means I cannot use your site
The reasons are simple:
- JavaScript has become a big security threat over time. Be it tracking (hello fingerprinting!), data leakage, direct attacks, supply chain attacks, sloppy code or other risks, JavaScript is not vulnerable just by itself, but especially the eco systems (hello npm – 2 attacks in September 2025 alone – and advertising networks) using it. Just a few references:
- [Wayback/Archive] The perils of JavaScript: How we’ve broken the internet’s security
- [Wayback/Archive] Most Common Security Vulnerabilities Using JavaScript – SecureCoding
- [Wayback/Archive] Supply Chain Security Alert: Popular Nx Build System Package Compromised with Data-Stealing Malware – StepSecurity
- [Wayback/Archive] Wormable Malware Causing Supply Chain Compromise of npm Code Packages – Arctic Wolf
- [Wayback/Archive] FingerprintJS | Identify Every Web Visitor & Mobile Device
- JavaScript has become a huge resource hog. Disabling JavaScript by default increased the snappiness and battery life of my laptops and smartphones significantly. In addition, it makes it way easier to read region-blocked content. Double win!
The below thread by [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz (@christopherkunz@chaos.social) – chaos.social sparked me to finally write why and add some relevant links.
Thread:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/17
What you carry around in a tool bag is always very personal.
What other people carry around is a great learning opportunity, especially when they have put in self-made or self-assembled tools.
So thanks Clive for releasing this very personal video: [Wayback/Archive] Big Clive: Lighting tech tool bag tour 2025 – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/17
During my cancer treatments I missed a lot of fun things, including that, a PlantUML extension for vscode (Visual Studio Code) matured into a well-maintained one.
I bumped into it when revisiting git – How to integrate UML diagrams into GitLab or GitHub – Stack Overflow (GitLab was first to natively support PlantUML; hopefully GitHub follows one day) and found the profile of [Wayback/Archive] Fuhrmanator which mentioned the vscode PlantUML extension.
Some links below, as I think it is a cool one!.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/16
[Wayback/Archive] version control – How can I see the changes in a Git commit? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] laktak, [Wayback/Archive] Nevik Rehnel, [Wayback/Archive] Juuso Ohtonen and [Wayback/Archive] User c z – Stack Overflow)
This looks like a valid question, but in reality it is not.
The thing is: in git, think of a commit not as a diff but as a snapshot*.
A diff is the difference between two commits.
Since most commits have just a single parent, so that’s why many people call a commit a diff. But that’s not true, especially not for merge commits that have at least two parents.
Anyway, the question, answer and comment from the link above already give some insight (note COMMIT everywhere below has to be replaced with the commit hash):
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 