Below is a list of the Borland documentation that BitSavers added in 2022, ordered by relevance to me (and how I finally asked Peter Sawatzki if he still had the monochrome TDVIDEO.DLL he wrote for Turbo Debugger 3.0 for Windows):
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BitSavers added some more Borland documentation in 2022 (most relevant for me: Assembler, Debugger, Profiler)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/28
Posted in 8087, Algorithms, Assembly Language, Borland C++, C, C++, Debugging, Development, Floating point handling, Profiling, Software Development, Turbo Assembler, Turbo C, Turbo Debugger, Turbo Profiler, x86 | Leave a Comment »
Do you need to patch PostgreSQL to show beer o’clock?
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/27
One might think a PostgreSQL patch is needed for [Wayback/Archive] Devrim Gündüz on Twitter: “Just forked PostgreSQL, and fixed a problem: …”
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ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/22
Cool: [Wayback] ShellCheck – shell script analysis tool
ShellCheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
It needs a shebang at the start of a script (like #!/usr/bin/env bash) to recognise the kind of shell, then does amazing analysis.
It is open source at [Wayback/Archive.is] koalaman/shellcheck: ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts with excellent documentation including explaining screenshots like
It’s not just available on-line or on the command-line, but also integrates with many code editors (like [Wayback/Archive.is] ShellCheck – Visual Studio Marketplace: Integrates ShellCheck into VS Code, a linter for Shell scripts.) and CI/CD pipelines.
Via: [Wayback] bash – error conditional binary operator expected in compound branch – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange (thanks [Wayback] Cyrus!)
–jeroen
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Via Chris Oldwood on Twitter: the real meaning of various C++ character types wchart_t, char, tchar and varchar
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/21
A while ago there was this great thread of various C++ character types:
- [Wayback/Archive] Chris Oldwood on Twitter: “The difference between
charandwchar_tin C++ is thatcharis for narrow characters andwchar_tis for wide characters. So you’d store letters like i, l, and t in acharbut M and W in awchar_t…” - [Wayback/Archive] Alan Stokes on Twitter: “@chrisoldwood
tcharis for really tiny characters, like ‘.‘.” - [Wayback/Archive] Chris Marrin on Twitter: “@chrisoldwood That all makes sense, but what do you do with this? “
And since most above talk about character width:
- [Wayback/Archive] Rob King on Twitter: “@chrisoldwood And the part of the operating system that handles the spacing between letters is the kern-el.”
–jeroen
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Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/20
Great for converting tab separated data (for instance when copied from Excel) into HTML:
[Wayback/Archive] Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS
–jeroen
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In memory of Matthias Eißing (Embarcadero, formerly Borland/Inprise/Borland/CodeGear)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/16
Earlier today, I got the sad news that my friend Matthias Eißing suddenly passed away in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Valentines day will never be the same.
Rest in Peace dear Matthias Eißing. Hope you will virtually keep drinking beer and keep the great conversations that made you so many friends going.
🕯️
[Wayback/Archive] Eine sehr traurige Nachricht – Delphi-PRAXiS
Mit einer Mischung aus blankem Entsetzen und großer Trauer muss ich Euch leider mitteilen, dass unser langjähriges Community-Mitglied Matthias Eißing in der Nacht zu Mittwoch plötzlich und völlig unerwartet verstorben ist.
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Helping others with is technical knowledge was what Matthias loved doing so much: in person (see [Wayback/Archive] Matthias Eißing – Entwickler Konferenz and [Wayback/Archive] Programm | EKON 27 – Die Entwickler Konferenz für Delphi & more), virtual (watch [Wayback/Archive] Magdeburger Developer Days 2021 03.09.2021 – Matthias Eißing “Delphi Community Edition” – YouTube), individually (uncountable chat messages, phone and video calls, e-mails and in-company meetings), white papers / blog posts (like [Wayback/Archive] HighDPI Entwicklung unter Windows) and forum messages (just see the list at [Wayback/Archive] Delphi-PRAXiS – Ergebnis der Suchanfrage).
I had hoped to meet at EKON28 again, as our story goes back to the very first [Wayback/Archive] EKON – The Conference for Delphi & More in 1997 @ the Raunheim Astron Hotel Rhein-Main organised by Masoud Kamali ([Wayback/Archive] Massi Kamali (@MasoudMassi) / Twitter).
EKON was the first conference by Masoud/S&S. It and later conferences helped the Astron Hotels in the southern Frankfurter area (a few years Raunheim, Rüsselsheim and many years Mörfelden) grow a lot and it was the base were Matthias and a lot of other developers kept meeting up and started to know about each others personal lives as well.
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Web-Design user experience: if you replace actual characters with images or empty styled items you will exclude screen-readers and make visually impaired unhappy (and others too)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/15
So I was on a medical site trying to copy my prescriptions trying to copy them:
Before copying After copying
In this case, the element that failed to copy was this:
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« The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images » – Thomas Fuchs
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/14
As an alt-text advocate, I appreciate [Wayback/Archive] Thomas 🔭✨: “The same people who say it’s t…” – Hachyderm.io
The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images.
#inclusion #a11y #accessibility
In case you missed it, this is indeed a thing: Prompt engineer – Wikipedia.
--jeroen
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I want to look at 120 degree V dipole antennas to see if I can improve FM reception in the house
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/09
Query: [Wayback/Archive] dipole antenna 120 degrees – Google Search
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jilles.com on Twitter: “Question for Dutch HAM radio amateurs, what frequencies are interesting to monitor for digital data? EG IoT/SSTV/Pocsag”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/08
Some links around a question that Jilles posted in 2022: [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com on Twitter: “Question for Dutch HAM radio amateurs, what frequencies are interesting to monitor for digital data? EG IoT/SSTV/Pocsag”
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 