Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/20
They have existed since early this century, and manage to continuously feature up to date Dutch speed trap information on the interwebz:
I wish they had linked to a site like [Wayback/Archive] HMpaal.nl to quickly access location information, for instance [Wayback/Archive] HMpaal.nl: A4/R/36.6:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/19
A while ago, I needed to check if 20251120T0700Z was a valid ISO 8601 timestamp. [Archive] ISO8601 Date Converter Online – DenCode showed it was.
It can even be called directly: [Archive] ISO8601 Date Converter Online – DenCode: 20251120T0700Z Europe/Amsterdam .
Not sure what language it was developed in (it runs server side), but it is a great tool to do some occasional testing of timestamp values.
Query: [Archive] datetime parse iso 8601 online at DuckDuckGo
I didn’t have time to check all the links from the Query in depth, but one seems to be JavaScript and another one is server side:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/19
I missed the below repository as when it got introduced early 2021 I was very much coping with recovering from a truckload of procedures curing my rectum cancer and its metastases.
Anyway, [Wayback/Archive] RADProgrammer Style Guide · radprogrammer/radteam Wiki is yet a new style guide which unlike the others hopefully will be maintained.
Also unlike the others it stresses not to use a specific Delphi feature, in this case inline variables (introduced in 2018) because in 2021 the internal IDE tooling and run-time around it still had not caught up.
I have always generalised this to refrain from using new features until they are broadly supported in the product. The reasoning is that as for more than the last decade, the R&D team has a tendency to introduce features half baked, ticked a marketing feature in the product matrix then goes on with new features deferring work needed to actually make the feature useful towards the indefinite feature, so here is something you can quote me on
In Delphi, refrain from using new language features until the product fully supports it including at least these bits:
- documentation
- code generation / code completion
- run-time behaviour (like memory leaks)
- editor support (navigation, selection, expansion)
- code refactoring
- code formatting
- debugger support
They refer to it from [Wayback/Archive] RADProgrammer Style Guide Other Guidance · radprogrammer/radteam Wiki:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/18
Relatively old mathematics that is still relevant: Markov Chains.
It is about predictability of events based on the current state of affairs (and not past state of affairs). Lot’s of AI have been about Markov Chains for a long time: spam filters, text prediction while typing, search engine results, language recognition by letter-pairs, and many more.
A nice video about it is [Wayback/Archive] The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything – YouTube
Related are many foundations in information technology, of which Markov and Shannon are mentioned in the video:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/18
From a long while back, but I forgot to add it as a blog post.
The answer to [Wayback/Archive] delphi – How to have both VCL and FMX in one application? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Gad D Lord for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Aleksey Timohin for commenting) is actually straightforward so Gad wrote a blog post on it back then [Wayback/Archive] MTG Studio: How to create and application which compiles both for Firemonkey and VCL.
It follows my answer closely, so here it is:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/17
During a Cloudflare outage¹, I learned about [Wayback/Archive] Wisp.place Documentation | Wisp.place Docs
Decentralized static site hosting on the AT Protocol.
Wisp.place enables you to host static websites directly in your AT Protocol repository. Your Personal Data Server (PDS) holds the cryptographically signed manifest and files as the authoritative source of truth, while hosting services index and serve them with CDN-like performance.
This is the documentation of [Wayback/A] wisp.place by [Wayback/Archive] Ana (@nekomimi.pet) — Bluesky.
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/17
I will need this one day: [Wayback/Archive] MaxiHuHe04/iTunes-Backup-Explorer: A graphical tool that can extract and replace files from encrypted and non-encrypted iOS backups which is based on [Wayback/Archive] How to decrypt an encrypted Apple iTunes iPhone backup? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Aidan Fitzpatrick and [Wayback/Archive] andrewdotn) which has this very important remark:
decrypting your iOS device’s backup removes its encryption. To protect your privacy and security, you should only run these scripts on a machine with full-disk encryption.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “iTunes-Backup-Explorer: Want to extract data from an iTunes backup? Forget all the expensive tools that trick you an a monthly fee and limit you to a few phones. Use this: …”
Note: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/12
There used to be this great site, but it disappeared in 2023: [Wayback/Archive] Bowden’s Hobby Circuits
To ensure the table of contents stays somewhat indexed, I quote it below in full (all links are to the Wayback Machine; I have not checked them yet).
Found back via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/12
Just in case I ever need to work with the CAMT.053 XML format for bank statements: [Wayback/Archive] dutch-sepa-iso20022/camt.053.001.02.xsd at master · jasperkrijgsman/dutch-sepa-iso20022
It is part of the repository [Wayback/Archive] jasperkrijgsman/dutch-sepa-iso20022: SEPA PAIN.001.001.003.
Via (which has more links to how various banks interpret these rules: yes, as usual they have different interpretations of standards) [Wayback/Archive] “urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:camt.053.001.02” – Google Search
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/11
This [Wayback/Archive] GetIt Local files – Google Docs is so much better than the [WayBack/Archive] DocWiki documentation for at least these reasons:
I wish it had been a Markdown or reStructuredText document as that is far more version control friendly.
Hopefully it will stay on-line longer than [Archive] drive.google.com/file/d/1Pt0YOMfS1eJK7e-NyLrZ5dNOj6UlqN1U/view| or the DocWiki documentation of prior Delphi versions. For more on that, read this blog post: The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day..
If you are curious to the DocWiki documentation on the GetIt Local files, then read these:
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