Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/25
Interesting modification: [Wayback/Archive] Embedding a Floppy Emu in a standard APPLE II Floppy Disk Drive – YouTube
STL: [Wayback/Archive] FermuAssembly.STL – Google Drive [Wayback] FermuAssembly.STL
Buttons: [Wayback/Archive] 3/4/5-Bit Independent Button Module MCU External Button Module Micro Switch Button Board Bluetooth-compatible Power Amplifier – AliExpress 502
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/25
Bookmarklets are basically URLs that execute a JavaScript function.
Sometimes you want to rely on external JavaScript files (for instance jQuery), but Bookmarklets themselves cannot do that.
Bookmarklets can modify the current page though, and use those to load a script, wait until it is loaded, then continue executing.
Often that is OK as you want to operate the Bookmarklet on that page anyway, but be careful though that you do not mess up the page by loading an incompatible script: test, test, test!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/20
Since git doesn’t have the notion of directories as entities, neither does GitHub.
This makes it counter-intuitive to add a sub-directory when creating a new file on-line in the GitHub web-UI or uploading file(s) there.
I wanted to do this as instead of taking the local route, it was easier to on-line add and edit [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jpluimers/https-imgur.com-a-bmw-e61-remote-fix-sWdk0: Content from https://imgur.com/a/bmw-e61-remote-fix-sWdk0 for Wayback Machine archival.
The GitHub web-UI can indeed do this:
TL;DR Use
/in the file name field to create folder(s), e.g. typingfolder1/file1in the file name field will create a folderfolder1and a filefile1.
you should just try to drag and drop your entire folder in the webui and it will upload whole folder.
You can also do this from the git command-line, by adding an empty file in the directory first. By convention, usually a .gitkeep file is used for that though others use .gitignore files for it.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/20
A sidestep of the series around Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too):
Enumerating Windows and especially Child Windows is a recursive endeavour, so I wondered if it was possible to write a self referencing delegate, anonymous method or lambda in C#.
That turns out to be way more complicated than I hoped for.
Some notes below, as:
Here we go:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/19
On my research list after making this short note April 2024: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Laurensvanrun/Delphi-Promises: Delphi implementation of promises for asynchronous programming.
My first impression is that this might be on the same level of usefulness and influention as these two:
Notes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/19
Earlier this months I wrote Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) promising I would rewrite the Delphi code into C# and integrate it into PowerShell.
This is the beginning on porting the basics of the Delphi code (which had a flaw!) to C# and contains EnumWindows/EnumChildWindows and error handling tricks and tips.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/18
CPU Cache and RAM performance slowed down many magnitudes for better comparison
[WaybackSave/Archive] Ben Dicken on X: “You asked for it, so here it is. Visualizing CPU cache speeds relative to RAM. Cache optimization is important too!”
Cover .jpg: [WaybackSave/Archive] Bo3x-4alnGEqj-1I.jpg (1200×675).
The graph was made using [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – d3/d3: Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:.
The underlying data is from [Wayback/Archive] Memory Performance in a Nutshell.
It was kind of a follow-up on a similar animation for Memory lookup versus SSD read speed (links at the end of this blog post)
Videos via [WaybackSave/Archive] Tweet JSON:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/18
In Visual Studio Code I already had [Wayback/Archive] C# – Visual Studio Marketplace: C# for Visual Studio Code (powered by OmniSharp) installed in (through code --install-extension ms-dotnettools.csharp), and wanted automatic XML documentation comments generation just like Visual Studio does:
[Wayback/Archive] XML documentation comments – document APIs using /// comments | Microsoft Learn
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/14
Maybe the outcome of this research study is even more reason to promote awareness around ungendered writing.
In this world at large, inclusivity should be the norm and showing that in your writing should increase funding rates for science articles.
[Wayback/Archive] Ungendered writing: Writing styles are unlikely to account for gender differences in funding rates in the natural and technical sciences – ScienceDirect.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/13
[WaybackSave/Archive] Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …”
This is not limited to organisations having a lot of non-measurable goals: all organisations have those, including the ones in IT.
Research paper (published 7 years ago today, still very relevant) at [Wayback/Archive] Performance measurement, cognitive dissonance and coping strategies: exploring individual responses to NPM-inspired output control | Journal of Management Control
Abstract
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 