I totally agree with the first comment of [Wayback/Archive] Naming Files and Directories the Right Way – YouTube as it holds not just for file management, but for naming anything including software development:
@yorickwolter
--jeroen
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Naming Files and Directories the Right Way – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/29
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JavaScript unit testing in the browser without Node.js: Getting Started | QUnit
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/29
A cool way to unit-test JavaScript code on the browser side is [Wayback/Archive] Getting Started | QUnit:
To get started with QUnit in the browser, create a simple HTML file called
test.htmland include the following markup:<!DOCTYPE html> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Test Suite</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://code.jquery.com/qunit/qunit-2.19.4.css"> <body> <div id="qunit"></div> <div id="qunit-fixture"></div> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/qunit/qunit-2.19.4.js"></script> </body>That’s all the markup you need to start writing tests. Note that this loads the library from the jQuery CDN.
I was so glad to find QUnit via the below links as I unconsciously wanted such a thing for a very very long time.
You can either run it locally or remotely or from the jQuery CDN as both it
- is a Node.js module so the source files are all available on the jQuery CDN
- it does not require the Node.js to load so it can run from any location you want (that CDN, locally or another on-line location)
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Some links for JavaScript tokenizers and syntax highlighters
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/28
In yesterday’s post Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link with the “redirected from” instead of “saved from” I mentioned js-tokenizer for syntax highlighting. When writing that, I didn’t have time to dig deeper, but saved the links for later investigation.
Since I won’t have time to finish writing a complete article on this anytime soon, I decided to just publish the list:
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vmstan/gravity-sync: 💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/28
Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] vmstan/gravity-sync: 💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.
Reasoning: [Wayback/Archive] Frequent Questions: Why two Pi-hole? · vmstan/gravity-sync Wiki
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Can PiHole work fine for more than 100k clients? : pihole
- [Wayback/Archive] Gravity Sync, an easy way to keep multiple Pi-hole In-sync – General / Customizing Pi-hole – Pi-hole Userspace
What is better than a Pi-hole blocking ads via DNS on your network? That’s right, Two Pi-hole! But if you have more than one Pi-hole (PH) in your network you’ll want a simple way to keep the list configurations identical between the two. I’ve recently been toiling away at a script to do exactly this, and what started as a few lines lines of bash was shared with some friends, and has grown into what I now call Gravity Sync — which I’d now like to share with you all for your feedback.
–jeroen
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Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link with the “redirected from” instead of “saved from”
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/27
This is a follow-up on Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link which can be accessed from multiple URLs, some through redirection:
- https://wiert.wordpress.com/?p=101586
- https://wiert.me/2023/08/15/bookmarklet-for-archive-is-to-navivate-to-the-canonical-link/
You can see the difference in these archived links (the navivate was a typo that I only spotted after the original blog post got published):
I wanted a Bookmarklet to find the last link; the one in the referenced blog post didn’t.
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dr-mod/blackout-logger
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/27
Just in case we get more power outages over in our country too [Wayback/Archive] dr-mod/blackout-logger:
A miniature device that’s keeping track of power outages.
Hardware:
- Raspberry Pi Pico
- Precision RTC Module (DS3231)
- Waveshare eink 3.7
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This is chillingly scary: Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’ – The New York Times
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/26
I’m speechless: [Wayback/Archive] https://archive.is/2026.01.24-201053/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/children-genetics-race-science.html
Via [Wayback/Archive] Kevin Bird on Skyview: An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it’s embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.
Starting skeet for which you need a BSKY account: Post by @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social — Bluesky
--jeroen
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SearX: a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/26
Experimenting with [Wayback/Archive] SearX: a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine
Links (including repository):
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Some notes on remote desktop access to MacOS
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/23
Reminder: only do this over a trusted network (use VPN!)
Apple uses very different terminology than Microsoft, and even they went from Microsoft Terminal Services (and its client mstsc.exe) via Remote Desktop Services (often abbreviated to RDP) and since 2024 – from non-Windows clients – “Windows App“.
For Apple, there are various terms:
- Screen Sharing (using an extension of the Virtual Network Computing protocol usually abbreviated to VNC) not having a Wikipedia entry at all
- Remote Login (ssh/sftp, where ssh is short for Secure Shell and sftp for SSH File Transfer Protocol), also not having a Wikipedia entry
- Apple Remote Desktop (also based on the VNC protocol, is a more general remote management tool priced at ~EUR 80; most people dislike it )
So below are some links so I have an overview somewhere.
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Identify virtual NICs in Hyper-V virtual machines – 4sysops
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/23
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Identify virtual NICs in Hyper-V virtual machines – 4sysops
There are three simple steps to follow to make your VM’s NICs easy to identify. Here is an overview, before we discuss each step in more detail.
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