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Figuring out the version of a GitLab instance
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/05
The easiest way to figure out the version number of a GitLab instance is to browse to the /help bage.
But be aware the version number only shows when you are signed in.
At the time of writing [Wayback/Archive] Help · GitLab (gitlab.com/help) showed this:
GitLab Enterprise Edition 15.7.0-pre ff1158094d6
The link showed [Wayback/Archive] Commits · ff1158094d6 · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab.
When nog logged on, the help page showed this:
GitLab Enterprise Edition
Via [Wayback/Archive] Markdown rendering of double indented lists fails (#33471) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab FOSS · GitLab.
Confirmed by [Wayback/Archive] How to check the version of GitLab? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Maxim).
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Some notes on testing locally modified chocolatey packages
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01
A few notes after I helped updating [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | SetACL (Portable) 3.0.6.0 to version 3.1.2.0 and [Wayback/Archive] Updates glab from 1.22.0 to 1.24.1; fixes #2 by jpluimers · Pull Request #3 · corbob/ChocoPackages.
As the burden on maintainers (not just Chocolatey ones) is high, not all packages get updated soon after new underlying software versions arrive.
Which means the maintainers are often very happy when an occasional user helps and preferably sends in a pull request.
That brings me to the an important point IN DOCUMENTATION DO NOT LIMIT EXAMPELS TO ONLY ABBREVIATED PARAMETERS OR VERBS as that scares away occasional and novice users of your software.
Chocolatey documentation is no exception on this, hence this blog post meant for people other than maintaining chocolatey packages on a day to day base.
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command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/31
I try to stay on the default shells of environments as much as possible, especially as that makes life easier when needing to work on an non-customised system.
Apple switched back from an ancient latest GPLv2 version 3.2 of bash (they regard newer GPLv3 as toxic to their revenue stream¹), introduced MIT-license based zsh and introduced a bash nag screen a few years ago forcing users to switch. Suppressing that message reliably is trickier than you might think².
After so many years of bash, I still stumble over things that zsh does differently: [Wayback/Archive] command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Travis and [Wayback/Archive] zaTricky) is a “feature” with a simple workaround for cURL:
This is a zsh feature that prints a percent-and-newline after a command completes if that command does not already include a newline at the end of its output. If zsh did not do this, you would either not ever notice the fact that the command didn’t print a newline – or you’d see zsh’s command prompt not start on the margin and think it was a bug in zsh.
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$ curl http://api.macvendors.com/0015c7 Cisco Systems, Inc% $ curl -w '\n' http://api.macvendors.com/0015c7 Cisco Systems, Inc…
Since the above example now writes a redirect messages (good bye HTTP, welcome HTTPS), and I very much dislike short command-line parameters, here is version with the long form of the [Wayback/Archive] curl -w or --write-out parameter :
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Kevlin Henney on “configuration is code” in his essay “Out of Control. An essay on paradigms, refactoring…”
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/31
For my link archive [Wayback/Archive] Out of Control. An essay on paradigms, refactoring… | by Kevlin Henney | Dec, 2020 | Medium.
Neither because Kevlin describes how to refactor a basic algorithm to convert Roman numerals into Hindu-Arabic numerals (in part by using the fact that an if statement can be considered a bounded case of a while loop), nor because he splits the resulting algorithm in coded data and coded statements, or because he mentions the [Wayback/Archive] Gilded Rose Kata but because well, you should just read it in full.
Remember though: Read the rest of this entry »
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Not just for Delphi, but any environment: Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/30
The video is from a while back, but very relevant and shows in Delphi what I have been advocating to software developers for a very long time:
- when timestamping use UTC
- when storing the timestamp store both the UTC timestamp and optionally the UTC timezone/offset and optionally daylight saving indicator of the region it was recorded from
This holds for any environment, so .NET / C#, Python, Delphi and many others as well:
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From @forrestbrazeal: Boilerplate code through ChatGPT or Google slows development teams down similar to technical debt
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/30
Via [Wayback/Archive] Angie Jones on Twitter: “Chart by Forrest Brazeal” I found the original at [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “Just saying. “ Read the rest of this entry »
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Dennard scaling – Wikipedia: finally learned why since 20 years, maximum CPU frequency stagnated at about 4 Ghz
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/29
Since around 2005–2007 Dennard scaling appears to have broken down. As of 2016, transistor counts in integrated circuits are still growing, but the resulting improvements in performance are more gradual than the speed-ups resulting from significant frequency increases.[1][10] The primary reason cited for the breakdown is that at small sizes, current leakage poses greater challenges and also causes the chip to heat up, which creates a threat of thermal runaway and therefore further increases energy costs.[1][10] Since 2005, the clock frequency has stagnated at 4 GHz, and the power consumption per CPU at 100 W TDP.
Via [Wayback/Archive] What Happened to the Capacitors in 2002? – YouTube
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PowerShell: playing around with Get-PnpDevice filtering with -Class and -Status
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/29
I while ago I was playing around in PowerShell with Get-PnpDevice (which got introduced in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019):
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@jilles_com … this is the difference between only connected disks versus including ones that had been connected in the past.Output difference between Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive -Status OK Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive …” – Mastodon
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Discover the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription benefits | Google Cloud Blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/28
Hopefully by now discounts like this are still available: [Wayback/Archive] Discover the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription benefits | Google Cloud Blog
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