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10-inch racks have apparently been a thing for the last few years. Some links.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/13

When at look at a local Amazon site, they have plenty of stuff: [Wayback/Archive] Amazon.de : 10 inch rack

2023 example via [Wayback/Archive] Ikea Eket DIY 10″ Rack (UK) [build showcase] · Issue #22 · geerlingguy/mini-rack · GitHub:

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeff Geerling on X: “Everyone in #Homelab knows about the DIY 19″ IKEA LACK rack… but did you know IKEA makes the perfect mini rack furniture, too? Presenting stirkage’s Eket rack! …”

[Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON (image on the right).

That tweet and [WaybackSave/Archive] Jeff Geerling on X: “Indeed… there’s gotta be some nerd at @IKEA who’s ensuring certain furniture fits standard sized rackmount gear, right?” (image below via [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON) have some interesting replies, making the list of usable IKEA products at least this:

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Coo responses to b0rk no Twitter: “is there an easy way (in the browser, at runtime) to generate a call graph of which functions called which other functions in a javascript program?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/13

For my reading list, the various responses to [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “is there an easy way (in the browser, at runtime) to generate a call graph of which functions called which other functions in a javascript program?”

--jeroen


Posted in Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

William Le’s Perpetual Motion Machine ver.2 – (plz visit my Amazon sto – LovelyWings)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/12

Want: [Wayback/Archive] William Le’s Perpetual Motion Machine ver.2 – (plz visit my Amazon sto – LovelyWings

I think I like the transparent version most, but the wood versions (yellow or brown) of course have more mystery.

There are more products in [Wayback/Archive] Wooden Kinetic Sculpture for Art Lovers – LovelyWings.

You can buy some of them at [Wayback/Archive] Amazon.com: LovelyWings, for instance the brown version of the [Wayback/Archive] Amazon.com: Perpetual Motion Machine – Infinitive Marble Machine – William Le’s Perpetual Motion Simulator : Handmade Products.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] You can’t hide the batteries when it’s transparent! – YouTube

--jeroen

Posted in Development, Electronics Development, LifeHacker, Physics, Power User, science | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It’s designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/08

Having used less for 40+ years now, I wonder how moar measures up to it: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – walles/moar: Moar is a pager. It’s designed to just do the right thing without any configuration.

Features I at least expect are in [Wayback/Archive] less: display the contents of a file in a terminal | less Commands | Man Pages | ManKier.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Johan Walles recently commenting on [Wayback/Archive] linux – How can I have less automatically decompress xz files like it did with gz files on my old SUSE distro? – Super User.

--jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, BSD, Development, Go (golang), Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Setting Up a Raspberry PI with a German Mac Keyboard – Seaside Testing

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/08

[Wayback/Archive] Setting Up a Raspberry PI with a German Mac Keyboard – Seaside Testing.

Reminder to self: figure out where parameters for /etc/default/keyboard are documented in case I want to use USB keyboards:

  • from other manufacturers than Apple
  • with other language layouts

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Stephan Kämper (@seasidetesting@mastodon.social) on Twitter: “Setting Up a Raspberry PI with a German Mac Keyboard”

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Posted in Debian, Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Linux, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian | Leave a Comment »

Extracting URLs from the Wayback Machine – Home

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07

For my link archive:

Via [Wayback/Archive] Home: buriedbits which also brought wabarcbot to my attention:

@wabarc_bot: Snapshot webpages to Internet Archive, archive.today, Telegra.ph and IPFS.

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Posted in archive.is / archive.today, Development, Ghostarchive, Internet, InternetArchive, Power User, Software Development, WayBack machine, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

More early Pascal history (way before Delphi; before Turbo Pascal and Quick Pascal)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07

The people knowing about the really early Pascal history are a dying breed. So before I pass away (see the posts on my rectum cancer), let me post a few more links here that based on yesterday’s Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal which I ended with:

I learned a few more things from [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? (Page 2)

Here we go:

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Reminder: see if I can implement megabool in Delphi (or at least trilean)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/06

Now that I re-wrote my 2012 talk on Class Operators and Helpers and presented it in Delphi at the ITDevCon2024 ([Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon | Home – Rome, 2024), see [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jpluimers/ITDevCon2024: Temporary ITDevCon2024 repository until I fixed the «git checkout “Illegal byte sequence”» of my Conferences repository, here is an idea to check out if I can implement it in Delphi:

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Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/06

Last week I wrote on File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn, promising to write more on p-Code and UCSD Pascal. That’s now (:

I started with [Wayback/Archive] “java byte code” “ucsd” “p-code” – Google Search as I was looking for really old material on this (Java 1.0 versions became available in the 1994-1995 time frame, and a lot of material back then either did not make it to the World Wide Web (which slowly gained popularity around that time, see History of the World Wide Web) or has vanished due to link rot.

The cool thing is that many “new” people are not even aware of p-Code, as the 2019 thread [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? shows.

I learned a thing or two from it as well, for instance that there has been a “recent” book on UCSD Pascal:

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Posted in Apple Pascal, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, gist, GitHub, History, Internet, link rot, Pascal, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, Standard Pascal, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, WWW - the World Wide Web of information | Leave a Comment »

Some posts on example domains and example IP-ranges (IPv4 and IPv6)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/05

Here are some of my blog posts on documenting using example domains and example IP-addresses or IP-ranges:

(I really wish that example.org and others would service SMTP with blackhole routing so one can also use it for bogus email addresses in documentation)

The blog posts above were incomplete (IPv6 was missing; IPv4 was not explained), so below are more links that do a better job based on a Tweet from [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans (@b0rk).

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