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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/11
This was the easiest tool to remove HTML from select tags while keeping line breaks: [Wayback/Archive] Online HTML Stripper. Remove HTML and formatting from text.
Especially the client-side on-line tools I tried failed that option:
This just does not work at all for me: [Wayback/Archive] HTML Cleaner (cannot paste HTML text: needs to paste formatted text which does not work with select elements).
Could I have done this on a command-line? Of course, but I don’t need it often enough to warrant investigating and remembering how to do that in an efficient manner.
Queries:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/11
A while ago I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Quick Accent steals the WordPress classic editor space after a hyphen-minus sign or asterisk · Issue #24623 · microsoft/PowerToys.
In the WordPress Classic Editor, the * or - combinations quickly generate an empty bulleted list:
When enabling the PowerToys Quick Accent (formerly [Wayback/Archive] PowerAccent) with their default settings this fails (but it does work in the WordPress Gutenberg editor, Word and some other tools I tested).
The easiest way to work around this is to switch from the default “Activation Keys” setting “Left, Right or Space” to “Left/Right Arrow”.
Hopefully besides the workaround there will also be a full fix.
The related C++ and C# source files:
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Posted in .NET, C#, C++, Classic editor, Development, Gutenberg editor, Power User, PowerToys, SocialMedia, Software Development, Windows, WordPress | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/10
Sometimes Wikipedia entries are way too short, for instance Philip A. Kaufman – Wikipedia, who in 1992 – at the age of around 50 – died way to early, does not do justice to his time at Intel.
His name rang a bell when searching for early Intel 8087 documentation distributed via LISTSERV, so below is a bit more information on Phil.
True, his life after Intel was very important especially on the front of electronic design automation. That in fact sparked the posthumous instantiation of the Phil Kaufman Award which you can read for instance at [Wayback/Archive] The Phil Kaufman Award Dinner Is Later this Month. Who Was Phil Kaufman? – Breakfast Bytes – Cadence Blogs – Cadence Community.
After his floating-point endeavours at Intel and the IEEE, he was also very instrumental at Intel in finding another big market for silicon: network controller chips (and getting the Ethernet standard going: think DIX (Digital/Intel/Xerox) [Wayback/Archive] Ethernet Blue Book (1980) which was named that way earlier than the PostScript Blue Book (1986) and CD Blue Book (1986)).
This period is very well described in the [Wayback/Archive] 1988 Computer History Museum interview of Phil Kaufman by James L. Pelkey (via [Wayback/Archive] Phil Kaufman | History of Computer Communications).
Back to floating point: Phil’s post from 1987 way better describes what early processor technologies at Intel he was involved with than the above links. That period was instrumental in getting IEEE_754-1985 going (it was released way after the 8087!) and still shapes the floating point aspects of almost any CPU from any vendor today so I quote it in full from [Wayback/Archive] Info-IBMPC V6 #59:
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Posted in 8086, 8087, 8087, 8088, Algorithms, Assembly Language, Development, Floating point handling, History, x86 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/05
Every interview with Kevlin Henney is worth reading, listening or watching and this is no exception: [Wayback/Archive] #122 – Essential Things Every Software Engineer Should Know – Kevlin Henney – Tech Lead Journal
It covered quite a bit of two classic books he (co-)edited: “97 Things Every Programmer Should Know” and “97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know” as their content is relatively timeless.
His first book has been open source for more than 10 years now. The repository is at [Wayback/Archive] 97-things/97-things-every-programmer-should-know: Pearls of wisdom for programmers collected from leading practitioners. and an easier readable edition is at [Wayback/Archive] Introduction · 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/04
Via [Wayback/Archive] Crowbarring Windows 95 into Windows NT with CAPITALS • The Register refers a nice trick that I have used in various case-codebases as well.
On case sensitive environments the casing method is easy no matter if you use macros or just regular identifiers.
On case insensitive environments, prepending or appending soemthing like an underscore (_) works just as well.
The trick referred to is in a section of [Wayback/Archive] How did the Windows 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base? – The Old New Thing:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/04
Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, History, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Development, Windows XP, XML, XML/XSD | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/03
[Wayback/Archive] From Meh to WOW – With 1 “Tiny” Hack! – YouTube shows an interesting but convoluted solution to solve temperature drift on a cheap Tuya WT410-BH-3A-W thermostat (there are similar models, see below) based on the replacement sensor [Wayback/Archive] WSEN-TIDS Temperature Sensor IC & EV-Kits | Sensors | Würth Elektronik Product Catalog.
Luckily the commenters stepped in and suggest better and easier ways.
On the other hand, the solution is nice to know as it allows plugging in a remote thermostat that sits in a better place to read the temperature while the control bits stay in a place where it is easier to manually adjust.
Chapters:
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Posted in ARM Cortex-M, Development, Domotics/Smarthome, ESP32, ESPHome, Hardware, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Home Assistant, Homey, IoT Internet of Things, Network-and-equipment, Power User, STM32 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/03
This method sparked a lot of discussion on social media:
private static string GetPercentageRounds(double percentage)
It is part of [Wayback/Archive] woo-besluit-broncode-digid-app/NFCService.cs at master · MinBZK/woo-besluit-broncode-digid-app which was published after a request according to the Dutch Open Government Act (WOO: Wet Open Overheid).
Even though it services the iOS app, it is written in C# not Swift despite it being client-side code, but that’s not why it sparked a lot of discussion costing more man-hours than the code is worth.
This is the code:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 