Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/25
Cool presentation: [Wayback/Archive] Test Automation Code Smells – Angie Jones.
A recording is at [Wayback/Archive] What’s That Smell? Tidying Up Our Test Code – YouTube (and embedded below the signature).
The code is at [Wayback] code_smells_workshop.zip.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/24
Reminder to self: Delphi 11.3 (Alexandria update 3), mid-product added a compiler changing kind of deprecating using types of this form (including ones defined in the System, System.Types and other RTL/VCL units):
Overview of “deprecated” * and alternative array types “deprecated” alternative: write it all out TBooleanDynArrayTArray<Boolean>TByteDynArrayTArray<Byte>TCardinalDynArrayTArray<Cardinal>TStringDynArrayTArray<string>
deprecated is a hinting directive and despite these having existed for almost 25 years now**, hinting directives like platform, deprecated, or library cannot be used on array types:a bug has been filed for this in 2017 but still has not been addressed, see my earlier blog post Delphi Declarations and Statements: Hinting Directives.Posted in Delphi, Delphi 11.0 Alexandria (Olympus), Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/19
Being back in the field after quite a long time made me notice I missed the Beyond Compare 5 release mid this year.
It did not need many upgrades so far which is a really good sign. Unlike many other places that release software way too early, Scooter Software seems to have focused on quality first, which nowadays is rare. Great!
Below are some links to get you up to speed, especially since it is available on Home Brew, Chocolatey and various other package installers:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/19
[Wayback/Archive] Hasan • Digital Writer on Twitter: “I made JavaScript Arrays Methods cheat sheet🔥 I hope it can helps you”, a visual representation covering map, filter, find, findIndex, fill, copyWithin, some, every, reduce:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/18
While migrating from iTunes on one machine to Apple Music on another one, I needed to migrate part of the (disorganised) playlists.
I knew there was a binary ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl file, but that is encoded or encrypted, making it hard to parse.
Luckily there is also ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml which I found via the links below.
The iTunes library xml file is in the same directory as the .itl file. The file is in Apple plist format, and Python’s standard library has a good parser for it.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/18
At the end of 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, [Wayback/Archive] den (@DennisCode) / Twitter started [Wayback/Archive] Engineering Festivus
The only thing 2020 needed is Seinfeld making a career change and getting into tech.
It is a series of IT parodies that at the time of writing just had its’ 35th episode: [Wayback/Archive] den on Twitter: “Kubernetes.”
Kubernetes
Kramer decided to use Kubernetes for his website. Jerry tries to explain what that entails. Kramer is adamant to do it all himself.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “LOL, just saw @isotopp changed…” – Mastodon
LOL, just saw @isotopp changed his name to Köhntopp
Well done, Kris. Well done.
( the history of the iso isotopp handle is so great, that I was glad I captured it from Twitter before that content got deleted; it is now at https://wiert.me/2022/06/09/how-isotopp-became-the-online-handle-of-kristian-kohntopp/ )
This Vercel app cannot be archived in the Wayback Machine properly as it then returns a HTTP 500. The Archive.is save succeeded though: [Wayback/Archive] https://ftfy.vercel.app/?s=ö:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17
Finally an easier way to convert Office documents (and other formats) to markdown: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. (after Google added a Markdown export feature to Google Docs about half a year ago, and basic Markdown formatting about 2 years ago – see below):
There are quite a few dependencies in [Wayback/Archive] markitdown/pyproject.toml at main · microsoft/markitdown · GitHub, so be prepared for that.
Supported formats (added links for clarity):
The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.)It presently supports:
Google was first though:
There is speculation on why Microsoft introduced it just now ranging from “they need it for AI training” to “just late to the game”. I’m with the latter. Apple is even later, so if you want to convert Apple Notes to markdown, then you can use [Wayback/Archive] Import from Apple Notes – Obsidian Help.
Via various sources, including:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17
Probably not fully the direction I need to search to (main goal is to interactively edit img tag attributes (basic and style) to manipulate the appearance of pictures in my blog), but should do for now:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/12
Making life easier for hardware fiddling people:
Cool solutions with .stl files.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Iceman on X: “This is nifty. A nice solution to a Real world problem Dupont cable mess! …”
--jeroen
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