For my link archive initiated because I was trying to find out why ADS-B Exchange does not list originating and destination airports for flights, then on how to get at that data.
It is grouped in a few parts, starting with:
Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Some ADS-B API link notes (hoping to be able to get from/to airport data from it)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/28
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Having some Technical Debt is OK as long as you keep paying the debt: Refactoring Is Not Just Clickbait – Kevlin Henney – NDC Oslo 2022 – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/28
[Wayback/Archive] Refactoring Is Not Just Clickbait – Kevlin Henney – NDC Oslo 2022 – YouTube
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] Arda Cetinkaya on Twitter: “If you are doing some new business as MVP, focusing on business quality rather than technology quality is more important. It’s ok to have some tech. debts that can be paid later. It’s OK if no good answer for “How?” but it’s not OK to not have a solid answer for “What?” 🧑🏽💻”
- [Wayback/Archive] Alican Korkmaz on Twitter: “@ArdaCetinkaya Agreed. In this video, @KevlinHenney explains that having tech debt should not be perceived as dreaded as it is. The important thing is regularly visiting and paying them.”
–jeroen
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Writing Doom – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence (2024) – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/24
Today a year ago, this interesting short film got available on YouTube about what an Artificial Super Intelligence could bring, especially when it became the villain or bad guy: [Wayback/Archive] Writing Doom – Award-Winning Short Film on Superintelligence (2024) – YouTube (some interesting comments below).
Synopsis from [Wayback/Archive] Writing Doom • Film + cast • Letterboxd:
A writing team are given the task of making Artificial Superintelligence the ‘bad guy’ for the next season of their TV show. With the help of a newcomer to the team (a Machine Learning PhD), they must figure out how and why an ASI might function as an antagonist – and the threat it might pose to humanity.
A few important notes:
- there is no good single definition of intelligence that well defines intelligence, let alone AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) or ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence)
- ASI and its goals might be different from human intelligence and human goals
- humanity might not realise or recognise there is ASI (at all, or when it has just become ASI)
- if humanity does recognise, it might not be able to control (i.e. shut down) an ASI (for many reasons, not just it being too intelligent, but also because lack of consensus – read humanity smashing each others heads for no reason before even reaching consensus)
Maybe AGI and ASI are like nuclear war, and this WarGames conclusion is sensible after all: “the only winning move is not to play” though with the money at stake, AGI and ASI might be obtained. I doubt that will be in my lifetime though.
See also:
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Delphi code by generative AI: arguably even worse than some oder development stacks
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/23
For my links archive:
- [Wayback/Archive] What is the best AI at Delphi – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]
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There is simply not enough Delphi code around for AI training. It is easy to have good coverage for JavaScript and similar where you literally have bazillion web pages available for scraping, where plenty of them virtually repeat the most common, required functionality. Pushing for more publicly available code without considering its quality, can also backfire.
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[Wayback/Archive] PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> ollama listNAME ID SIZ – Pastebin.com
- [Wayback/Archive] What is the best AI at Delphi – Page 2 – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]
I still think these LLM are only good for inspiration (not just for the reason mentioned above) as using LLM generated code requires a lot of pre-thought and care, likely way more than any benefits (unpopular opinion: in a way programming based on LLM generated code is worse than being [Wayback/Archive] The full stackoverflow developer | Christian Heilmann which was later re-published at [Wayback/Archive] The Full Stack Overflow Developer – CodeProject)
I am not alone on this, as per Erik Meijer on Twitter:
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Exercism: Get really good at programming, fun, effective & 100% free
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/23
Get really good at programming.
Develop fluency in 66 programming languages with our unique blend of learning, practice and mentoring. Exercism is fun, effective and 100% free, forever.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Stephan (TheTraveller@sw-development-is.social) on Twitter: “Would you like to improve your programming skills online? I recommend trying exercism.io. It’s free and you can get feedback from real humans (if you’re in the #Ruby track, may be even from me 😀 ). #exercism #ISupportExercism”
–jeroen
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pascal.js
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/22
Because it is cool: interactive [Wayback/Archive] pascal.js that shows the intermediate steps:
- Turbo Pascal 1.0-ish code
- Abstract Syntax Tree (in JSON notation)
- LLVM IR (intermediate representation)
- Emscripten compiled JavaScript
- Console output (stdout)
Source is at GitHub: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – kanaka/pascal.js: Pascal compiler implemented in JavaScript
Via: [Wayback/Archive] javascript pascal at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
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Twelve-Factor App methodology – Wikipedia
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/22
It was only a few years back that I was reminded there was in fact a methodology for cloud-based apps: Twelve-Factor App methodology – Wikipedia
Despite me following most of the factors there already (similarly that I have been doing agile software development using extreme programming techniques since the mid 1980s, long before it before they got formal in the 1990s and early 2000s), it helps to have a good vocabulary, so below are some links
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Cool visualisations of graph searching: Introduction to the A* Algorithm
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/21
This is so cool: graphical [Wayback/Archive] Introduction to the A* Algorithm
It is still being updated, which is even cooler:
Created 26 May 2014, updated Aug 2014, Feb 2016, Jun 2016, Jun 2020, Jul 2023
These are for general graph traversal. That Wikipedia article only mentions depth-first search and breadth-first search, but forgets the A* search algorithm which is an extension of the also not mentioned Dijkstra’s algorithm which in turn is based on breadth-first search.
The visualisations cover the breadth-first algorithms.
The example code is Python based, but easy to translate into other languages.
The visualisation code is in JavaScript, using these files (they Archive.is versions are more accurate than the Wayback Machine ones):
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Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 Comparison – {DPHacks}
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/21
For my link archive as I have the oldest cams and might upgrade at least one of them: [Wayback/Archive] Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 Comparison – {DPHacks}
Via: [Wayback/Archive] makerbymistake on Twitter: “I compared the new @Raspberry_Pi Camera Module 3 standard and wide versions side-by-side. Check it out:” Read the rest of this entry »
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Turning off AI during Google Search with the “new” UDM parameter
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/17
It looks like I missed that Google has added a new URL parameter to its search engine quite a while ago.
In the past, you could turn on image search using the tbm=isch URL parameter (“to be matched” and “image search”).
That still works, but there is a new parameter on the block that is officially undocumented, and can be used to switch into various search modes including image search but also AI-less search.
This drastically lowers the carbon footprint and also gets you far less speculative information.
Edit 20251023: I forgot to save the below part before the scheduled post got published. So here we go
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