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How NOT to Measure Latency

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/15

According to @isotopp (Kristian Köhntopp ), this is one of the most important talks to watch regarding performance issues: [Wayback/Archive.is] How NOT to Measure Latency

Gil Tene provides an in-depth overview of Latency and Response Time Characterization, including proven methodologies for measuring, reporting, and investigating latencies, and overview of some common pitfalls encountered (far too often) in the field. Tene also covers specific considerations in garbage collected environments (such as Java).

It is on YouTube (embedded below the signature) as well, but the above link as synchronised slides plus video.

More places where you can get it:

Via [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “… Dieser Talk ist einer der wichtigsten Talks überhaupt, wenn es um das debuggen von “Performance Problemen” oder SLOs geht.”

–jeroen

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Field Tested Systems

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/14

Besides a cool portable spectrometer and software (written in Delphi), [WayBack] Field Tested Systems also has a really nice poster showing the spectrogram fingerprints of all the elements:

Via Delphi: 2 things to check when FMX/VCL units are inserted when you use VCL/FMX components (G+ post by Tom Field)

–jeroen

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Albert Heijn needs to give their AH-mobiel pre-paid user-experience more love

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/09

If you have an prepaid Dutch AH-mobiel SIM card, topping it up or refilling is a hell as none of the web-links you get via SMS or top vouchers function.

When you get an SMS warning that your account is almost running out, it contains the link to [Wayback/Archive] ah.nl/opwaarderen which has no indication how to refill.

When buying a refill voucher at the Albert Heijn store, it contains two links that lead to HTTP 404 error pages:

Albert Heijn has their own [Wayback/Archive] ah.nl domain (which sometimes is totally down), but the refill link is on a completely different domain which – from a phishing point of view – is ideal to lure people into other refill pages.

The only Albert Heijn web-page linking to the actual refill link is [Wayback/Archive] Sim Only | Albert Heijn: ah.nl/over-ah/winkelservices/mobiel/sim-only.

The on-line refill link is [Wayback/Archive] AH mobiel opwaarderen: https://reload.alphacomm.network/web/ah which raises all kinds of red phishing flags:

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Posted in Cellular telephony, Development, Power User, Security, Software Development, Telephony, User Experience (ux), Web Development | Leave a Comment »

sharplab.io – ashmind/SharpLab: .NET language playground

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/08

[Wayback/Archive] ashmind/SharpLab: .NET language playground is hosted on [Wayback/Archive] SharpLab.io  and has this README:

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Not sure I like this without tail recursion

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/07

A while ago Andy Gocke posted this bit of C# 11 code:

[Wayback/Archive] Andy Gocke on Twitter: “Can’t believe none of that “C# is turning into F#” people have noted that this is legal code in C# 11″

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The binary tree actually exists!!

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/02

Yup, binary trees are real:

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Web UI/UX & coding tip: if you have tabular data, display them using table/tr/th/td (via Victor on Twitter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/01

So true:

[Wayback/Archive] Victor on Twitter: “UI/UX & Coding Tip 💡 Do you need to display table data? Use tables. Yes, , and . Yes, it’s fine. No, you don’t need flex, grids, divs, and all that. Why? Because it’s a table 🤷‍♂️”

UI/UX & Coding Tip 💡

Do you need to display table data? Use tables.

Yes, <table>, <tr> and <td>.

Yes, it’s fine. No, you don’t need flex, grids, divs, and all that.

Why? Because it’s a table 🤷‍♂️

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Some notes on Fierit

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/30

Since I had only one read-only account and the Fierit ECD system won’t sent me update notifications on that account, I have collected some links before actually doing deeper investigation to see how to build a push notification system around it.

Link dump:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Type systems are an accessibility tool for programming; for weakly languages you should enable type hints or type enforcement

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/25

I made [Wayback/Archive] Rebecca Skinner on Twitter: “Type systems are an accessibility tool for programming with ADHD.” stronger in the post title, as I have been a proponent of stronger typed environments for all my programming life.

Yes, (unit) tests and tooling can alleviate this in part for more weakly typed languages but lots of people forget (or “forget”) putting these in place.

So please please: make your development environment as strictly typed as possible.

Not just your ADHD colleagues will applaud you for this, but your future self will as well.

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Waarom is de “nieuwe” bank-web site uit 2017 van ABN AMRO al ruim 5 jaar een drama?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/24

Ik ben het zo hartgrondig eens met [Wayback/Archive] Ik ben een mens en geen computer!, dus daarom wat citaten en wat Tweets die ik in de afgelopen jaren stuurde.

  • 2. Kopiëren bedrag
    Iedere ondernemer kent het wel: de ontvangst van facturen via e-mail, of het downloaden van facturen. Juist om geen fouten te maken bij het overschrijven, kopieer ik het bedrag en plak dat in de webapplicatie. Bij ING Bank kan dat gewoon, maar in het bedragveld weigert de webapplicatie van ABN AMRO halsstarrig alle input middels Ctrl-V (plakken). Terwijl toch ook bij ABN AMRO wel bekend zou moeten zijn dat handmatige invoer tot fouten leidt!
  • 3. Kopiëren betalingskenmerk
    Eenzelfde soort probleem zien we bij het betalingskenmerk. Dat is een getal van 16 cijfers, bij uitstek geschikt om fouten te maken bij het overtikken. Hoewel tikfouten ontdekt kunnen worden middels het controlegetal in het betalingskenmerk, ligt het voor de hand om zo’n kenmerk te kopiëren en te plakken om zulke fouten te voorkomen. Zo niet bij ABN AMRO.
    Om het betalingskenmerk voor de mens nog enigszins leesbaar te houden, wordt het meestal gepresenteerd in vier blokjes van vier cijfers. De Belastingdienst doet dit bijvoorbeeld op de aangifte BTW

Tweets over de web-site en de mobiele app waar problemen na jaren nog niet opgelost zijn stonden voor een groot deel al in Sometimes you wish that companies – especially banks – would pay you for testing their sites instead of you paying them for using their sites en geen enkel punt was toen ik dit artikel in mei 2022 schreef opgelost.

Het is nu voorjaar 2024, een maand of 7 totdat European Accessibility Act in gaat en digitale toegankelijkheid verplicht wordt (met een overgang van 2022 tot 2025). Ik ben heel benieuwd waar ABN AMRO nu staat voor bovenstaande en of er ook iets aan onderstaande gedaan is.

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