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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/07
From quite a while ago, and still interesting:
Why are these interesting?
For me it is because tiny hick-ups can be just as hard for senior people as for novices.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/01
From 2008 to fall 2013, Twitter used the Fail Whale, a 2006 artwork by Yiying Lu originally titled “Lifting A Dreamer”, to indicate problems on their site.
Now that it is about a year after Musk burned some 44 milliard USD buying Twitter, it is also 10 years ago they phased out the Fail Whale, so it is a good time to remember it and a reminder to check out how Twitter faired during Elon’s ownership.
With Twitter down, you’d see the image from [Wayback/Archive] Yiying Lu 🐳 🥟🧋 on Twitter: “It has been 10 years since my art piece “Lifting a Dreamer” became the Twitter Fail Whale, a symbol as @Twitter’s service outrage during 2008-2013. It has inspired hundreds, probably thousands, of funny, clever & amusing homages and take-offs from users globally. Here are a few: …”:
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Posted in Delphi, Development, History, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/31
Posted in Chrome, CSS, Development, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Opera, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development, YouTube | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/25
When you use the WordPress classic editor (which for me still works far better than the Gutenberg one), avoid at all cost the use of the [Wayback/Archive] SyntaxHighlighter Code Block – Page 2 – WordPress.com Support.
Each time you switch between from Text View back to Visual, some characters are html-encoded, like:
& becomes &> becomes >
Switching twice makes & into &>.
Switching three times makes & into &&&gt.
I already explained why to avoid the Gutenberg editor in Bookmarklet to force WordPress classic-editor.
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/24
[Wayback/Archive] Delete (very) old tweets obtained from a twitter archive comments:
# Largely copied from http://www.mathewinkson.com/2015/03/delete-old-tweets-selectively-using-python-and-tweepy
# However, Mathew's script cannot delete tweets older than something like a year (these tweets are not available from the twitter API)
# This script is a complement on first use, to delete old tweets. It uses your twitter archive to find tweets' ids to delete
# How to use it :
# - download and extract your twitter archive (tweet.js will contain all your tweets with dates and ids)
# - put this script in the extracted directory
# - complete the secrets to access twitter's API on your behalf and, possibly, modify days_to_keep
# - delete the few junk characters at the beginning of tweet.js, until the first '[' (it crashed my json parser)
# - review the script !!!! It has not been thoroughly tested, it may have some unexpected behaviors...
# - run this script
# - forget this script, you can now use Mathew's script for your future deletions
#
# License : Unlicense http://unlicense.org/
It is by [Wayback/Archive] Anil (@TheOtherAnil), who also wrote [Wayback/Archive] @captions_please (mentioned in my earlier post Two more Twitter bots that help with inclusion and accessibility (a11y): @get_altText and @captions_please), see:
[Wayback/Archive] Anil on Twitter: “@captions_please @jazzthefraz ah sorry the bot didn’t run earlier because of a bug. Should be fixed now.”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/23
Remember [Wayback/Archive] Guidelines for human gene nomenclature | Nature Genetics?**
You might not, but this was what pointed me to it back in 2020: [Wayback/Archive] Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates – The Verge.
The article was a result of Excel mangling import data for decades. Somehow finally it did get Microsoft’s attention and more than 3 years later, they issued options (with mangling still being the default) to help workaround the problems.
The 2004 article [Wayback/Archive] Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics | BMC Bioinformatics | Full Text demonstrated this import problem which had been present for quite a while already (it even has a csh Script to scan for SymbolMutation error).
The gene nomenclature people by now have moved to a different naming scheme, but maybe other people can benefit from the Excel updates of which you can find more through these links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/19
I have had these two batch files on my system forever:
sha1.bat:
:: https://superuser.com/questions/245775/is-there-a-built-in-checksum-utility-on-windows-7
:: https://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2017/03/use-certutil-to-get-file-hash/
:: Windows 7 has case sensitive Hash algorithms: MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512
certUtil -hashfile %* SHA1
sha256.bat:
:: https://superuser.com/questions/245775/is-there-a-built-in-checksum-utility-on-windows-7
:: https://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2017/03/use-certutil-to-get-file-hash/
:: Windows 7 has case sensitive Hash algorithms: MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512
certUtil -hashfile %* SHA256
But I forgot to blog about [Wayback/Archive] Use Certutil to Get File Hash | MCB Systems mentioning:
on Windows 7, the hash algorithms are case-sensitive. Be sure to type, for example, “MD5”, not “md5”. On Windows 8.1 and 10, case doesn’t matter
I did mention the first link in “error: invalid object 100644” “git svn”, though only in a by-line. So thanks [Wayback/Archive] user64996 for asking and:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 