Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/15
A while ago I downloaded some internal tooling that required vcredist140.dll (and related DLLs).
From the name you cannot see if that is a 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) dependency so you often have to trial and error to figure out which one you need.
I adopted some winget package install command-lines with package IDs current at the time of writing this blog post; similar should be available at the time of publication:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10
A very interesting read, where it keeps me wondering how batch files like these are being generated (making them by hand feels very surreal): [Wayback/Archive] From Highly Obfuscated Batch File to XWorm and Redline – SANS Internet Storm Center
VirusTotal entry: [Wayback/Archive] VirusTotal – File – 453c017e02e6ce747d605081ad78bf210b3d0004a056d1f65dd1f21c9bf13a9a
The day after the article was written, only Kaspersky and ZoneAlarm detected it; in the past ZoneAlarm used the Kaspersky engine, but that stopped a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus Review | PCMag.
The malware uses at least these technologies:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10
Nowadays software development documentation is usually sparse and distributed, which means it should be well searchable.
[Wayback/Archive] No documentation | CommitStrip
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/09
Note that the below methods likely will cause security warnings if a Windows machine has been properly configured, but in most cases at least one of them works.
curl --url https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin --output %TEMP%\100MB.bin
certutil | Microsoft Docs (at least Windows 7 and up; needs UAC elevation)certutil.exe -urlcache -split -f https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin %TEMP%\100MB.bin
powershell.exe -Command (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin','%TEMP%\100MB.bin')
I think it works for all versions of curl, certutil, and PowerShell though I did not have anything older than up-to-date Windows 7 (having PowerShell version 3) and recent to test on.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/08
Apparently I was living under a stone since the 2015 introduction of [Wayback/Archive] Paste to Markdown:
Paste to Markdown
Instructions
- Find the text to convert to Markdown (e.g., in another browser tab)
- Copy it to the clipboard (
Ctrl+C, or⌘+Con Mac)- Paste it into this window (
Ctrl+V, or⌘+Von Mac)- The converted Markdown will appear!
The conversion is carried out by to-markdown, a Markdown converter written in JavaScript and running locally in the browser.
The “to-markdown” I did already know (see A few HTML to Markdown converters written in javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP and C#) but has been renamed from [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – domchristie/to-markdown: An HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript into then “turndown” repository below.
More links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/08
When working on larger screens, I am always amazed at how little window estate most web sites actually use.
For sites that just try to look nice that is not so much or a problem, but for productivity sites it is.
The go-to solution for this is to manually modify the CSS. This can often be a pain because the CSS is either deeply nested or – even worse – uses semi-random HTML class attribute values.
This post is a reminder to myself to check if the below CSS modification in my Stylus library still works (gist link is at the bottom of this post):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/03
The result C macros having become more lenient on the types they expect, is that they can become very large expansions. This not only causes long expanded code lines, but also
This shows you some examples:
[Wayback/Archive] Lorenzo Stoakes on social.kernel.org: For those interested in the ‘combinatorial explosion of min()/max() macro’ thing slowing down kernel builds, witness the horrors :))
[Wayback/Archive] Re: [PATCH 0/7] minmax: reduce compilation time – Linus Torvalds
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/03
For my link archive (please check the page as by now the table might have changed from what I quote below) [Wayback/Archive] Unicode spaces and the WordPress classic editor might have mangled it.
I like the table as it embeds the spaces between foo and bar so it easy to copy paste them to code or documentation.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/02
Back when my life was in turmoil, lots of interesting things were posted. In the aftermath, I try to catch up with them at a reasonable pace.
This was one by Ron Jeffries (Extreme Programming, Agile Manifesto) blog post [Wayback/Archive] Story Points Revisited.
It is one of the many posts over the last decade or so that tries to make people aware that being agile, or doing extreme programming is vastly different from holding onto the agile process dogmas introduced over the last 2+ decades.
The thing is: these dogmas are exactly why extreme programming and the agile manifesto came into place: blindly following rules is not going to get you anywhere.
Figuring out how your organisation works, then step by step figuring out which parts of extreme programming or agile manifesto fit best for improving your work, implementing them and looping back while keeping a close eye on which practices still work best is the way to go.
Jeffries appologised for sort of having coined the term “story points” (which come from “ideal days”).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/01
The term “prompt engineer” actually everything about programming that programming is about: it’s just trading a known output language with cleanly defined rules for an unknown country that assembles pieces of text based on statistics.
[Wayback/Archive] Ian Brown ☑️: “Tired: “code generation” Wired…” – Mastodon
Tired: “code generation”
Wired: “software-defined software”
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 