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The things I didn’t notice during cancer survival: ftfy 6.0 and more versions got released during my recovery

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/10

When writing this, [Wayback/Archive.is] ftfy · PyPI:history indicates ftfy was already at 6.0.3.

It is still my goto tool for figuring out the cause of Mojibake. I remember writing about it the first time in 2016 (see the ftfy category) when it was already at version 3.0, discovering it after a few Mojibake posts.

By now it even understands right-to-left Mojibake garbage: [Archive.is] Elia Robyn Speer on Twitter: “ftfy 5.8 is out! … A user reported that Hebrew text wasn’t being fixed, and this made me think about how to expand some of the trickier cases to non-Latin alphabets.”

Mojibake mishaps still happen a lot, so by now I hope I will have done a Mojibake themed Delphi talk at one or more conferences.

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Posted in !!con (bangbangcon), About, Autistic Spectrum/Autism, Cancer, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Encoding, Event, ftfy, Mojibake, Personal, Python, Rectum cancer, Scripting, Software Development, Unicode | Leave a Comment »

Having cancer is not a fight or a battle, it is about having luck or misfortune

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10

It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.

The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.

At year’s end, I will know for sure.

Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.

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Diagnose de Wild gemist? Start met kijken op NPO Start

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/12

Het verhaal van Ruud lijkt veel op dat van mij. De reden van de spoedoperatie was anders, en hij is inmiddels alweer – op een andere manier dan vroeger – aan het werk . Al duurt het iets langer, dat laatste gaat mij ook lukken.

Zelf werk ik ook aan een verhaal met de werktitel “You got one partial life left: let’s talk about poo and pee”, misschien zelfs wel in de vorm van een speech voor op conferenties en workshops. Want hoe eerder je erbij bent, hoe hoger de kans op beter worden.

Ruud’s verhaal is er al, en daar ben ik blij om.

Kijken dus: [Wayback/Archive] Diagnose de Wild gemist? Start met kijken op NPO Start

Begin dit jaar krijgt Ruud de Wild te horen dat hij darmkanker heeft. ‘Als ik hier goed uitkom, dan ben ik verplicht om dit verhaal te vertellen’. Dat nam Ruud zich voor toen hij de diagnose kreeg.

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Current state: still fighting the metastases of the rectum cancer; chemos are done, major liver surgery in about 3 weeks

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/23

A long follow-up of Current state: still fighting with rectum cancer, but chances for better quality of life which does not even include everything, because so much happened.

So this is the current state; browse back via Twitter for more of the history which you can find at [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Too much to let sink in …” and [Archive.is] Jeroen Pluimers (@jpluimers) | Twitter.

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