I needed this download-file.bat a while ago, but forgot how I found out.
It’s in this gist too: [Wayback/Archive] Quick batch file hack to download a file calling PowerShell to do the heavy lifting.
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Quick batch file hack to download a file calling PowerShell to do the heavy lifting
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/12
Posted in .NET, Batch-Files, CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »
Conductor, Semiconductor and Superconductor with a twist
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/11
I tried finding older versions of [Wayback/Archive] 160767437_1614740178716498_1088211482313253900_n.jpg (667×960) from Facebook: Crappy Electrical jokes and Puns. 1,666 likes · 9 talking about this. Just for fun (20210315), especially as the web-site of the ultimate source seems to have died: [Wayback/Archive] Kill The Neighbours, the game that doesn’t hurt – free online puzzle game
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Hopefully by now the Chocolatey .nuspec extensions and limitations are documented in a more central way
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/08
Chocolatey extends the NuGet file format .nuspec based XML files as base for their packages with at the time of writing very sparse and limited documentation in what it extends, why it does that and what extra limitations it imposes on the fields used inside .nuspec files.
Hopefully by now that has improved, so this post is a reminder to myself to check that out eventually.
At the time of writing, the NuGet .nuspec documentation was at [Wayback/Archive] .nuspec File Reference for NuGet | Microsoft Learn and the file format at [Wayback/Archive] NuGet.Client/nuspec.xsd at dev · NuGet/NuGet.Client. Most fields are defined as primitive data types xs:boolean, xs:string and xs:anyURI (of the 19 available primitive XML SChema (W3C) types). Some composite data types are are composed from them using local and global complexType, most using xs:all, xs:attribute or single-type unbounded xs:sequence (which all imply no particular order).
Since an XML Schema allows to both use restriction and extension on data types (the eXtensible in XML!), making them more strict is a relatively straight-forward operation and has the benefit of having these in a central place.
In the past for more than 5 years [Wayback/Archive] Is there a specification for the package format? · Issue #379 · chocolatey/choco was just pointing to the NuGet .nuspec format, but after a request to re-open new comments were made pointing to a current issue (basically a stub, but still) and a Chocolatey nuspec.xsd file, yay!
Still it was a quest to figure out the additional rules they have added, especially since the documentation was sparse and sloppy.
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html – What can cause Chrome to give an net::ERR_FAILED on cached content against a server on localhost? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/07
On my research list [Wayback/Archive] html – What can cause Chrome to give an net::ERR_FAILED on cached content against a server on localhost? – Stack Overflow
The reason what that back then this would fail (but worked in Firefox and Safari, and because I was in a hurry I didn’t research further): [Wayback/Archive] https://www.office.com/
This site can’t be reached
The webpage at https://www.office.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_FAILED
Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Mason Wheeler and [Wayback/Archive] Joel Davey.
Details:
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Looking for an alternative to the (now dead) ZXing Barcode Scanner – Apps on Google Play
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/07
Edit 20250807: (thanks [Wayback/Archive] twm/dummzeuch!) at [Wayback/Archive] dummzeuch: “@wiert yeah, I found out about…” – Mastodon
@wiert yeah, I found out about this a few weeks ago, when I wanted to install it on my new phone.
I switched to this one:https://gitlab.com/Atharok/BarcodeScanner
But I haven’t used it enough to be able to make a final evaluation.
So I will try [Wayback/Archive] Atharok / Barcode Scanner · GitLab with the install from the Android App-store [Wayback/Archive] Scanner: QR Code and Products – Apps on Google Play.
Original post:
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peter purgathofer: “… i recently found a little HDMI-fob that fakes a second screen; i can now see my presenters’ notes on the built-in screen, while the presentation is on a hallucinated second screen …” – 🌱 hci.social
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/06
The below post reminded me that around black friday I bought [Wayback/Archive] ADWITS 2-Pack 4K 2K 1080P 30Hz to 60Hz Support HDMI Display Emulator DDC EDID Headless Ghost Monitor Adapter Dummy Plug, Highest 4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz – Gold Colour: Amazon.de: PC & Video Games
[Wayback/Archive] peter purgathofer: “today i gave a talk, where the…” – 🌱 hci.social
today i gave a talk, where the setup was that i had to share my presentation over zoom, but i didn’t have a second screen. this usually meant that i have to forgo seeing my presenters’ notes because my notebook’s screen would be the shared presentation screen.
i recently found a little HDMI-fob that fakes a second screen; i can now see my presenters’ notes on the built-in screen, while the presentation is on a hallucinated second screen.
simple and effective.
--jeroen
Image from the Toot: [Wayback/Archive] 6af960c3f84a12e8.jpeg (2939×2821)
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linux – Get final URL after curl is redirected – Stack Overflow (plus some Twitter scraping tricks)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/06
Sometimes I need [Wayback/Archive] Redirect Checker | Check your Statuscode 301 vs 302 on the command-line, so cURL to the rescue: [Wayback/Archive] linux – Get final URL after curl is redirected – Stack Overflow. The relevant portions of answers and comments further below.
TL;DR:
Since I prefer verbose command-line arguments (you can find them at the [Wayback/Archive] curl – How To Use on-line man page) especially in scripts this HTTP GET request is what works with Twitter:
% curl --location --silent --output /dev/null --write-out "%{url_effective}\n" https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20https://x.com/anyuser/status/20
This failed (twitter dislikes HTTP HEAD requests):
% curl --head --location --silent --output /dev/null --write-out "%{url_effective}\n" https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20
Notes
Given so many of my scripts now run on zsh, I added the new-line because of command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow. You can strip that bit.
Note that these do not perform client side redirects, so they do not return the ultimate originating URL https://x.com/jack/status/20 (which was the first ever Tweet on what was back then called twttr) as Twitter on the client-side overwrites window.location.href with the final URL. Similar behaviour for getting the Twitter user handle of a Twitter user ID, more on Twitter tricks below.
Tweet by TweetID trick via [Wayback/Archive] Accessing a tweet using only its ID (and without the Twitter API) – Bram.us.
Further reading (thanks [Wayback/Archive] vise, [Wayback/Archive] Daniel Stenberg, [Wayback/Archive] Ivan, [Wayback/Archive] AndrewF, [Wayback/Archive] Roger Campanera, and [Wayback/Archive] Dave Baird):
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Tootski, a sharing bookmarklet for Mastodon · GitHub
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/05
For my research list: [Wayback/Archive] Tootski, a sharing bookmarklet for Mastodon · GitHub
--jeroen
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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).
–jeroen
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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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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 