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Beyond the Cloud: Brooklyn Zelenka on Local-First Software | gotopia.tech

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17

I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Beyond the Cloud: Brooklyn Zelenka on Local-First Software | gotopia.tech

It is a great session with guidance how to kind of go “back to the future” by amending cloud based applications to run locally by means of caching and syncing data. No small feat, but very convenient for end-users to have their – recently regarded as old-fashioned – local running applications back.

There is a – member’s only – video of it as well at [Wayback/Archive] Beyond the Cloud: The Local-First Software Revolution • Brooklyn Zelenka & Julian Wood • GOTO 2025 – YouTube

--jeroen

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Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17

Voor mijn link archief: KPN telefooncentrales, waarvan een paar waar familie of ik een aansluiting had:

[Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl

Wijkcentrales
Code Plek
Ssh [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Sassenheim – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Asd-Bdh [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Amsterdam-Badhoevedorp – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Asd-Osdp [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Amsterdam-Osdorp – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Nhout [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Noordwijkerhout – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Lis [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Lisse – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl

Deze hadden Mojibake met de generic replacement character (“�”):

Wijkcentrales
Code Plek
Ctlr [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Castelr� – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Castelré zijn)
Odi [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: St. Odili�nberg – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Sint Odiliënberg zijn)

Let op: de [Wayback/Archive] fourstack KPN UI (toenmalig gebouwd door [Wayback/Archive] FourStack) is sinds 2021 uit de lucht, zie [WaybackSave/ArchiveBad] FPI Fourstack Snelheid DSL – Internet en hosting – GoT , dus de gegevens worden niet meer bijgewerkt.

--jeroen

Posted in ADSL, Development, Encoding, Internet, ISDN, ISP, KPN, Mojibake, Power User, PSTN, Software Development, Telephony | Leave a Comment »

Notes in case I want to create my own homebrew cask for installing software they disabled/removed

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16

Some notes as it might enable me to install software that homebrew has deprecated or removed (note that local changes by default are ignored as the brew API takces precedence):

Despite the homebrew repository being a high commit-volume one which makes following it from a clone hard, just did already clone it Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, GitHub, Home brew / homebrew, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Ruby, Scripting, Software Development, Source Code Management, Versioning | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Some notes on running Windows 11 on virtualised hardware and some on TPM

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16

Not all virtualised hardware (older hardware usually has died by now) conforms to the Windows 11 minimum specifications.

So here are some links that should be of help to still get Windows 11 running on those:

If you insist on running older hardware that has a TPM header on the mainboard:

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Posted in CommandLine, Development, MSI, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 11, Z77A-G43 | Leave a Comment »

DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/12

From a while ago. I wonder what the current state is.

[Wayback/Archive] DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register

--jeroen

Posted in Development, Encryption, Media, Media Streaming, Power User, Security, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Jeff Geerling: Trying out a cheap USB VK-172 GPS dongle on a Mac | Jeff Geerling

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/11

On my list of things to try out (and see if it is better than an NTP clock):

--jeroen

Posted in Development, Hardware Interfacing, Legacy Ports: COM, Software Development, USB | Leave a Comment »

xahteiwi.eu – Handy Git aliases

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/11

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] xahteiwi.eu – Handy Git aliases

  • List branches by their date of last modification
  • Delete old topic branches that have been merged
  • Find the origin of a branch point
  • Fix trailing whitespace

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/10

[Wayback/Archive] What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work • Matt Godbolt • GOTO 2024 – YouTube

Main takeaways for me:

  • CPU pipelines have grown a lot longer than I was aware off
  • there are many more internal registers than I was anticipating
  • clever ways to convert if statements to non-jumps

--jeroen

Posted in .NET, Assembly Language, C, C#, C++, Delphi, Development, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

“The Pocket Guide to Debugging” zine and Debugging Puzzels by b0rk (Julia Evans)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/10

I forgot scheduling this post, but it is still very relevant: about the debugging related materials by b0rk (Julia Evans) as they are not limited to just “The Pocket Guide to Debugging”.

It is excellent material to learn at home, work or be used during education.

Before the Elmo* takeover, she mainly used Twitter to post beta material and later the final versions. Easiest queries to find back the Tweets are:

Here are some of links found via the above lists of tweets:

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Posted in Debugging, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Excel: sorting an array on 3 different columns using functions

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/09

Given Excel is the most popular functional language (see the video under my post “Everybody should have an obsession with Lisp-like language at least once in their life” @KevlinHenney), this post is on sorting with Excel functions.

I had an array in Excel starting at row 2 (to exclude the headings) where I had to sort on 3 different columns: C, A, B (or numerically 3, 1, 2) so [Wayback/Archive] sorting – How to multi level sort an array in excel, using formulas? I am aware about the way, using SORT button on DATA tab – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Armaan Gohil and [Wayback/Archive] Jos Woolley) didn’t fully apply but did put me on the right track as I wasn’t aware that the SORT function allows to specify multiple columns using an embedded array argument.

The functions that worked:

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