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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/18
Still using Nikon F-mount DSLRs here, though I might upgrade to Nikon Z-mount and appropriate Z-mount adapter to continue using my F-lenses.
Anyway: some links on HDR, as for older bodies that require extra steps.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/18
I totally missed that FreeNAS has been renamed into TrueNAS CORE. Since FreeNAS had been on my list to tinker with, now is TrueNAS – Wikipedia.
Relate/via:
Tweets:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/15
As a memory to our almost identical Swiss W116 450SEL 6.9 a video in Swiss German about it: [Wayback/Archive] Ein Blick zurĆ¼ck – das beste Auto der 70er Jahre – YouTube.
This one with fabric, white headlights and ABS, ours with leather, yellow headlights plus headlight wipers, and no ABS (it took around chassis numbers ending around 750 until ABS was available: ours was slightly earlier)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/15
Though I have no Reddit account, it has much useful content, so I wish I had known his query site like 15 years ago [Wayback/Archive] SocialGrep – Social Media Analytics for Reddit
It looks like very few people mentioned me on Reddit too. Is that a good thing?
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/14
A while ago I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Unicode weirdness – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en].
This sketched a mojibake problem where PDF to text converted files had odd looking character sequences.
The solution – replacing these sequences with more correctly looking text – worked at first, but then failed because the underlying source code got “corrected” from containing the Mojibake character sequences into the correct Unicode text.
A better solution is to figure out what series of encoding/decoding steps will give the correct text.
This is where – again – [Wayback/Archive] Home – ftfy: fixes text for youĀ comes up: a still indispensable tool.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/13
[Wayback/Archive] Beeper ā 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 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 aĀ non-adminĀ PowerShell to install scoop to its default locationĀ C:Users<YOUR USERNAME>scoop.
iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex
[Wayback/Archive] ScoopInstaller/Install: š„ Next-generation Scoop (un)installer is very similar:
Run this command from aĀ non-adminĀ PowerShell to install scoop with default configuration, scoop will be install toĀ 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 by jpluimers on 2026/05/12
Take this cool example I extended from [Wayback/Archive] Thomas š
°ļøšØšµ on Twitter: “#Typescript quizz What will be the value of result1 and result2 ?” which lacked alt-badge, so I [Wayback/Archive] responded with the image on the right that has alt-text.
Based on that, I added a bit of logging:
const a = undefined;
const result1 = a ?? 0 + 10;
const b = 100;
const result2 = b ?? 0 + 10;
console.log(result1);
console.log(result2);
Two questions:
- What is the output of both log lines?
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 