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sjmulder/netwake: Simple Wake-on-LAN utility for Windows – all the way up from 3.11, plus a CLI

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/02

Found this way after I fiddled doing this in PowerShell: [Wayback/Archive] sjmulder/netwake: Simple Wake-on-LAN utility for Windows – all the way up from 3.11, plus a CLI by [Wayback/Archive] sjmulder (Sijmen J. Mulder).

Unlike PowerShell, this works on a way broader range of Windows versions (:

(note that on Windows 3.11, you need to install Win32s first)

There are both CLI and GUI editions:

It’s cool to see such minimalistic C programs for a change. It reminds me of The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen.

At the time of writing there are four [Wayback/Archive] Releases · sjmulder/netwake all documented at [Wayback/Archive] netwake/CHANGELOG.md at master · sjmulder/netwake · GitHub.

Related blog post: Wake-on-LAN from a Windows machine.

–jeroen

Posted in C, Development, Ethernet, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Software Development, Wake-on-LAN (WoL), Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Bluesky Firehose Explained: Real-Time Data Streaming with Jetstream & ATProtocol | Skyscraper

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/01

screenshot of the "opt out" interface Discourage apps from showing my account to logged-out users Bluesky will not show your profile and posts to logged-out users. Other apps may not honor this request. This does not make your account private. Note: Bluesky is an open and public network. This setting only limits the visibility of your content on the Bluesky app and website, and other apps may not respect this setting. Your content may still be shown to logged-out users by other apps and websites.

Discourage apps from showing my account to logged-out users Bluesky will not show your profile and posts to logged-out users. Other apps may not honor this request. This does not make your account private. Note: Bluesky is an open and public network. This setting only limits the visibility of your content on the Bluesky app and website, and other apps may not respect this setting. Your content may still be shown to logged-out users by other apps and websites.

A screenshot of Bluesky's side navigation. An arrow labeled "Go here" points at "Moderation" This is the reason you cannot limit your skeets from harvesting by machine learning sites: [Wayback/Archive] Bluesky Firehose Explained: Real-Time Data Streaming with Jetstream & ATProtocol | Skyscraper

Basically the “posts only visible only to people who are signed in.” is a suggestion to the BlueSky UI front-end, not to the protocols in the back-end that handle your data. Those protocols is what’s described in the above Firehose link.

It means that the new Attie AI scraper always has access to everything you published as it has access to the above Firehose and the BSKY APIs. Anything/anyone with access to that Firehose or the BKSY APIs can access all your data.

The whole “Logged-out Visibility” is just a suggestion, the actual underlying protocols and their access are very much not explained in this visibility post:

[Wayback/Archive] Post by @safety.bsky.app — Bluesky

Logged-out Visibility

Bluesky is a public network, but sometimes, added friction matters. If you don’t want Bluesky to show your content to logged-out users, opt out in the Moderation screen.

On the right I emphasised the privacy consequence in italic.

The Firehose and it’s risks aren’t at all covered in posts like [Wayback/Archive] Why I’m betting on ATProto (and why you should, too).

This is to different from the Fediverse of which Mastodon is the most well known social network, as described by [Wayback/Archive] Mastodon Migration: “How About Some AI With Your BlueSky…” – Mastodon

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Kevlin Henney on Code Refactoring – Semaphore

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/01

A topic that will stay revant during all of our software building life: [Wayback/Archive] Kevlin Henney on Code Refactoring – Semaphore

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Darko Fabijan on Twitter: “I had a great time discussing with @KevlinHenney about the value of code refactoring, managing technical debt, and balancing workload. Listen to our conversation: …”

It is part of a podcast series, but the site has no RSS feed.

I found it listed at least on [Wayback/Archive] Kevlin Henney On Code Refactoring Semaphore Uncut podcast which points to the mp3 at [Wayback] 13007535-kevlin-henney-on-code-refactoring.mp3, the series at [Wayback/Archive] Semaphore Uncut podcast and [Wayback/Archive] Semaphore Uncut RSS Feed.

–jeroen

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On my tools list – mxrch/GHunt: Offensive Google framework.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/31

Cool addition on my tools list: [Wayback/Archive] mxrch/GHunt: 🕵️‍♂️ Offensive Google framework.

usage: ghunt [-h] {login,email,gaia,drive} ...

positional arguments:
  {login,email,gaia,drive}
    login   (--clean)         Authenticate GHunt to Google.
    email   (--json)          Get information on an email address.
    gaia    (--json)          Get information on a Gaia ID.
    drive   (--json)          Get information on a Drive file or folder.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Via [Wayback/Archive] Cyber Detective on Twitter: “Ghunt online version. Get info about Google account by email: – name – default profile and cover pictures; – calendar events and timezone; – Google Maps reviews; – Google Plus and Google Chat data; #osint #socmint “

Related:

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Posted in Development, GMail, Google, GoogleCalendar, GoogleDrive, GoogleMaps, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Anyone who knows where to find the actual source code of the Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange WYSIWYG editor? (it has a strikethrough bug)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/27

I edited an answer to [Wayback/Archive] git – View rendered output of a gist? – Stack Overflow¹ and it appears that Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange have introduced a WYSIWYG editor of which the help still points to the old Markdown editor.

[Wayback/Archive] Markdown Editing Help – Stack Overflow

The problem is that the new WYSIWYG editor generates Markdown that in part cannot be properly rendered by the Markdown question / answer viewer (for instance, strikethrough is emitted as by the WYSIWYG editor in Markdown as ˜˜strikethrough˜˜ but the viewer can only render <s>strikethrough</s>.

Since their meta sites are toxic as hell:

is there anyone that knows where to find the source code of the Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange  WYSIWYG editor?

Thanks!

From the links below, I doubt the StackExchange pagedown repository is the one as it has been unmaintained since 2012 and the WYSIWYG editor is still in beta: I would have expected bug fixes over time, but there aren’t. Or maybe that all is caused by the toxicity on their platform?

This was my queste for information and some of the links I found:

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Posted in Software Development, Development, Pingback, Stackoverflow, SocialMedia, MarkDown, Lightweight markup language, StackExchange | Leave a Comment »

Some links on finding the redirection target of a URL from within a web-browser

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/26

Likely what I want is not possible because of CORS or CSP (both security features, often mixed up in writings), but just in case below are some links I found.

The problem at hand was that I wanted to use the functionality of a site like [Wayback/Archive] Redirect Checker | Check your Statuscode 301 vs 302, but on the client side because sometimes redirects depend on locality (for example, but not limited to, AliExpress sites).

Thinks like these fail with CSP errors like Refused to connect to 'https://t.co/Ui4Wmesq1j' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "connect-src chrome://resources chrome://theme 'self'".:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onload = function() {
  if (this.status < 400 && this.status >= 300) {
    console.log('request redirects to ' + this.getResponseHeader("Location"));
  } else {
    console.log('request does not redirect');
  }
}
xhr.open('HEAD', 'https://t.co/Ui4Wmesq1j', true);
xhr.send();

Links – many of them mentioning CORS, but few CSP:

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ceceradio/twitter-block-chain: Chrome extension to block all users on a followers/following page.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/26

Cool: [Wayback/Archive] ceceradio/twitter-block-chain: Chrome extension to block all users on a followers/following page.

On the play store: [Wayback/Archive] Twitter Block Chain – Chrome Web Store

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ӏօղցմìçհ on Twitter: “Weet iemand een goede tool om alle volgers van iemand in een klap te blocken ? En dan liefst een tool die niet 30 dollar per maand kost ..” / Twitter

It’s not just cool because of the functionality, but also because it is a relatively small extension from which I hopefully can learn a bit or two when starting to write my own extensions.

–jeroen

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Not doing CSS much, I was this years old to learn about “font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/25

Via the below BSKY post (some call these skeets), I learned about the CSS feature “font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums” which switches on the OpenType tnum feature of fonts that support it.

More and more supports these tabular numerics, which makes all digits equally wide making both numbers in tables and lists as well as quickly changing numbers like sub-second timers a lot easier to read.

Failing example due to WordPress ditching the style

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Posted in CSS, Development, Font, Google, GoogleFonts, HTML, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Open source meme generators on GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/20

I knew open source meme generators would exist, but I never searched for them before. Here is a small table with generator and repository columns:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ash/dash, bash, bash, Batch-Files, Bookmarklet, CSS, Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Makefile, Power User, Python, Scripting, sh, Sh Shell, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Bookmarklets for going from the Wayback Machine to Archive Today

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/20

To ease my blogging, I wrote two more Bookmarklets that help me navigate to or save from a Wayback machine archived page to Archive Today.

A key thing I learned over the past 2+ decades is that “the cloud” (i.e. cloud computing) is “just someone else’s computer” which tends to be unavailable right when you need it no matter the applicable service-level agreement.

Which means that a long while ago, I switched to archiving external links to both the Wayback machine and Archive Today.

Since the Wayback machine is my primary, it helps to have Bookmarklets to go from such an archived page to the equivalent one on Archive Today, or even save it if it isn’t there.

So I made two more Bookmarklets which I will illustrate using the example.org based links https://example.org and http://example.org:

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Posted in archive.is / archive.today, Bookmarklet, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Internet, InternetArchive, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, WayBack machine, Web Browsers, Web Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

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