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GitHub – lightpanda-io/browser: Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/26

Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation

lightpanda.io
— Read on github.com/lightpanda-io/browser

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Android/Apple Photographer Apps? : photography

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/24

[Wayback/Archive] Android/Apple Photographer Apps? : photography

Related:

Query:  [Wayback/Archive] dof calculator android sunset – Sök på Google

Via: [Wayback/Archive] PH1X on X: “@jpluimers Valt zeker niet tegen, je had het diafragma zelfs nog wat verder open kunnen zetten. Ik weet de exacte afstand niet maar op zo’n grote afstand heb je zelfs op 160mm 2.8 nog een flinke scherpte diepte. Ik gebruik vaak de app photobuddy om dit soort dingen inzichtelijk te krijgen.”

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Any YouTube ID is a YouTube ID which means you can use any shorts ID and music ID to watch as a YouTube URL (adding functionality shorts and music URLs lack)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/24

YouTube has diversified its content separating out YouTube Shorts and YouTube Music.

The main YouTube viewing experience has a few advantages over the other two experiences:

  1. content can be monetised
  2. content can arranged into lists (including Watch Later)
  3. auto-play can be turned off

All below links have the same ID, but the ones with checkmarks can use all the above features whereas the ones with crosses cannot.

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Applesoft BASIC in JavaScript

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23

Not my first BASIC (which was on calculators: The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)), but the first BASIC on a machine with a real keyboard was Applesoft BASIC on an Apple II:

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Via Kevin Beaumont: DEIAtruth@opm.gov, a perfect email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23

Quoting [Wayback/Archive] Kevin Beaumont: “The US Government has issued a…” – Cyberplace

The US Government has issued an executive order demanding employees snitch on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility initiatives by emailing: DEIAtruth@opm.gov

Just in case you wanted an email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.

--jeroen

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MySQL: Boiling JFrogs | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23

I love how Kristian Köhntopp often turns series of valuable tweets in a blog post. [Wayback/Archive] MySQL: Boiling JFrogs | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp is no different and has much more than the few quotes below (especially about the process of finding the solutions):

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Some notes on reStructuredText in vscode now that reStructuredText by LeXtudio Inc. got redesigned

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22

For my list archive; need to check this out because reStructuredText by LeXtudio Inc. got redesigned, deferring much of its behaviour to Esbonio.

Anyway:

For me, figuring that out under pressure how to get this to working was too much, so I deferred that to a later point in time and perform a reStructuredText to Markdown conversion in stead (I wasn’t using very esoteric .RST features, and since most people use Markdown anyway it made the documents even more accessible for others to extend). Links on that conversion:

Both Markdown and reStructuredText are problematic for background images, so I opted to cut the conference background slide in half, put the top part above the title, and the bottom half below the final part of the presentation, as this didn’t really work well either:

Oh, and for Visual Studio Code:

Queries:

--jeroen

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Three dashes or a rendered horizontal table at the top of your GitHub markdown document? That’s YAML metadata

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22

Many Markdown documents on GitHub have three dashes (---) at the top (and rendered a horizontal table displays).

I didn’t know this markdown construct, and it appears to be GitHub specific: it is a way to render YAML metadata (for instance used while blogging).

So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] three dashes table markdown – Google Search and found [Wayback/Archive] Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents | The GitHub Blog.

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Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21

Fork of a repository that shows how to do this with normal Homebrew installs [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub has my notes to do a similar thing with Homebrew cask installs.

Fork of: [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub.

TODO: check notes to ensure they really work on a different system and were not a lucky shot.

Notes:

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XKCD to ExplainXKCD Bookmarklet

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21

Sometimes the XKCD episodes are hard to get, so I wanted a Bookmarklet to navigate to [Wayback/Archive] explain xkcd.

Here is the regular expression to change the domain name part if it matches: [Wayback/Archive] regex101: build, test, and debug regex: VI34VW with this generated sed code:

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