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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Open source meme generators on GitHub
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/20
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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Since the Wayback machine is my primary, it helps to have Bookmarklets to go from such an archived page to the equivalent one on Archive Today, or even save it if it isn’t there.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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Fixed my Windows Update Error 0x800705b9 on Windows 11 25H2: Reset Windows Update Components batch files
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/19
I created the gist [Wayback/Archive] Fixed my Windows Update Error 0x800705b9 on Windows 11 25H2: Reset Windows Update Components batch files from https://kimiyoya.com/windows-update-error-0x800705b9-fix-en/ and https://www.elevenforum.com/t/reset-windows-update-in-windows-11.3808/ · GitHub
In it, the first batch file solved the Windows Update Error 0x800705b9 I had on a Windows 11 25H2 machine, probably with the root cause that the C: drive had become full during running updates.
Standard measures failed:
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Some LoRaWAN notes to decide buy or build?
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/19
A long time ago, I volunteered to participate in the first Dutch LoRaWAN initiative but somehow no more follow-up after the first initial 2015 email exchange.
Now that I have reached peak recovery of all my cancer treatments and LoRaWAN is far more available there is some room for experimentation.
Related blog post: Kerlink IoT station page | LoRa | Semtech
History:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@wienke ik zie dat je rond Osdorp de Aker geen dekking hebt. Met een point daar zou je ook Badhoevedorp en Lijnen meepikken en wellicht 1/2”
- [Wayback/Archive] jpluimers lorawan – Twitter Search / Twitter (too bad the G+ content is gone forever)
So now some links in case I want to have my own LoRaWAN gateway:
- [Wayback/A] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “And we are Live, second LoraWan gateway in Hellevoetsluis. This was the easiest setup of Hardware I have ever seen. Nerds get one, it is affordable, mod-able and you’ll extend the network! NL link:
antratek.nl/the-things-indoor-gateway“
[Wayback/Archive] The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Gateway, TTIG-868 – Antratek Electronics
- [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “Supposed to receive my TTIG today. Need to void the warranty though. #TheThingsNetwork #LoraWan”
[Wayback/Archive] Hacking the TTI Indoor Gateway – Tinkerman
- DIY Schuko plug for the TTI Indoor Gateway
- Adding an external antenna, is it worth it?
- Peaking into the firmware
- Final touch: originates with TrackNet
- How to enable the CP2102N on the TTIG
- [Wayback/Archive] The Things indoor gateway EU power plug by Rdfo – Thingiverse
- [Wayback/Archive] TTN Indoor Gateway – Stand, Rod- and Wallmount by LittleJoeMuc – Thingiverse
- [Wayback/Archive] TTIG_POWER
- [Wayback/Archive] The Things Network by Wienke Giezeman — Kickstarter
- [Wayback/Archive] The Things Indoor Gateway | The Things Network
- [Wayback/Archive] www.iot-shop.de The Things Indoor LoRaWAN Indoor Gateway TTNv3 Enabled for Installing LoRaWAN Networks: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
- [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve got him!”
–jeroen
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The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead. Oh, and do this for any presentation you need to give.
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/18
I have been doing presentations based on Markdown since, gosh let me look, oh, at least 2014¹!
But I’m glad it is getting traction: [Wayback/Archive] The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead.
… the “quality” of the deck is inversely correlated with the quality of the thinking behind it …
The quote hits the nail on the head, but be sure to read the rest of the article as well: it’s inspiring, holds for way more than pitch decks: it holds for any presentation, especially because of this quote²:
William Zinsser argued in On Writing Well that the act of writing forces clarity – because you can’t write a clear sentence about a thing you don’t understand.
Markdown has so many advantages. You write. It is text based. It can be versioned. I could go on.
Let me quote the closing summary too, as it is so well written showing the advantages of writing:
Write the pitch.md first. You might find you don’t need the deck at all, or you might find that when you do build the deck, it’s better, because you finally know what you’re trying to say.
Via:
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No more /etc/rc.local in ESXi 7 and up, use /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh in stead
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/18
Where in ESXi 6.x you could change /etc/rc.local in ESXi 7 and up tightened security and now use /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh [Wayback/Archive] virtualization – ESXi 7.X file permissions – how to buypass new security measures – Server Fault
Notes:
- some ESXi (for instance when booting from PXE do not have persistent storage)
- be sure to always backup an ESXi configuration after changing it
Via [Wayback/Archive] “esxi 7” run your own shell scripts – Google Search
–jeroen
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Tabellen met plugmaat en schroefmaat
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/17
Deze tabellen waren nuttig voor me, want ik dacht dat voor 7mm schroeven 8mm pluggen nodig waren:
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3D printer: Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “If you want to spend a month building it and then the rest of your life telling everyone about it, get a Voron. If you want something quick to assemble and practical, get an Ender 3 S1. If you want the nice coffee-sippingest model that looks good in orange, get a Prusa.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/17
I wonder if this still holds: [Wayback/Archive] Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “@NetworkChuck @joeltelling @Barnacules If you want to spend a month building it and then the rest of your life telling everyone about it, get a Voron. If you want something quick to anssemble and practical, get an Ender 3 S1. If you want the nice coffee-sippingest model that looks good in orange, get a Prusa.”
–jeroen
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LostMyPassword – Recover lost passwords stored on Windows applications
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/14
Released in august 2025, about a year ago, LostMyPassword seems to be replacing a lot of separare NirSoft tools that could reveal various specific password types:
[Wayback/Archive] LostMyPassword – Recover lost passwords stored on Windows applications
LostMyPassword can extract the passwords from popular programs, including Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Internet Explorer, Opera, and more…), POP3/IMAP/SMTP passwords stored by email software (Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Mail), Dialup/VPN passwords stored by Windows operating system, login passwords of remote computer stored by Windows operating system.
Via [WaybackSave/Archive] NirSoft on X: “New tool: LostMyPassword – “
On their Twitter account [WaybackSave/Archive] NirSoft (@nirsoft) / X, you can track various changes in their tools.
--jeroen
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Found out that a few years back the Unifi Network Controller got replaced with Unifi Network Application
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/14
My Unifi Cloud Key (the original one) had been broken for some years (not just the Micro-SD card: even with a fresh new card it would not boot), but I didn’t bother as my WiFi network was configured well enough.
But then I had to do some configurations and found out newer Cloud Key iterations have their issues well: batteries dying, hard-disks failing, you name it.
[Wayback/Archive] Unifi Network Controller replaced with Network Application ? | Ubiquiti Community
UI Marketing department decided to change the name. However, depending on the version you are on now, the new versions make a lot of changes to the UI as well as the operation of the APs.
Then I discovered you do not need to run it on either hardware or docker container (the latter I know because of [Wayback/Archive] Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp), you can now also run it on various other host operating systems:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 