Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/20
As I promised a few months back in Bookmarklets for Archive.is and the WayBack Machine to go to the original page, moar JavaScript fiddling, this time with XPath based bookmarklets to navigate from Archive.is pages to Saved From, Redirected from, Via and Original pages.
An alternative would be using XPath as the additional fields are always structured in a table like the html below (taking complex pages like https://archive.ph/5iVVH and https://archive.ph/2015.11.14-044109/http://www.example.org/ as an example).
I got triggered to using XPath from this answer from [Wayback/Archive] gdyrrahitis at [Wayback/Archive] Javascript .querySelector find by innerTEXT – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] passwd for asking):
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Posted in Agile, Bookmarklet, Code Quality, Code Review, Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development, XML/XSD, XPath | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/19
Boy, two extra modifier keys: [Wayback/Archive] How to Strip Formatting When You Copy and Paste Text: 5 Ways
To paste as plain text on a Mac, you can use the somewhat cumbersome shortcut Option+Cmd+Shift+V to paste without formatting. This is a system-wide shortcut, so unlike Windows, it should work everywhere. Technically, the shortcuts pastes and matches the formatting, but this has the same effect of removing the original formatting.
Via [Wayback/Archive] macos word microsoft office paste without formatting – Google Search.
Paste without formatting is an issue on Windows as well. The default should be “paste without formatting” instead of the current “paste with source formatting”. See for instance these tweets:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/15
As promised yesterday, I updated the scripts for Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs
Code (which broke at 20230914 because of WordPress.com changes: the undocumented HighlanderComments structure got removed; I will update the gist later on and post an updated blog post)
Instead of the undocumented HighlanderComments structure, I now use two (also undocumented) link rel elements.
In addition, I found this element that will be interesting in the future: <link rel='shortlink' href='https://wp.me/pvelJ-m8g' />.
You can view the change with the below archivals of the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.
And of course I learned a few things from these MDN entries:
The 20230530 archivals (Wayback/Archive) of wiert.me/2022/02/14/philosophy-of-management have this HighlanderComments structure:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/14
For my link archive so I can better automate archiving Tweet threads using bookmarklets written in JavaScript:
The base will likely be this:
javascript:void(open(`https://archive.is/?run=1&url=${encodeURIComponent(document.location)}`))
which for now I have modified into this:
javascript:void(open(`https://threadreaderapp.com/search?q=${document.location}`))
It works perfectly fine without URL encoding and demonstrates the JavaScript backtick feature for template literals for which you can find documentation at [WayBack/Archive] Template literals – JavaScript | MDN.
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Bookmarklet, Communications Development, cURL, Development, HTTP, https, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Scripting, Security, Software Development, TCP, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/12
TL;DR
I have converted the below PowerShell one-liner into this batch file (the ^| syntax is to ensure the pipe runs within PowerShell, not within the batch file):
PowerShell 'Get-CimInstance -Namespace "Root\cimv2\mdm\dmmap" -ClassName "MDM_EnterpriseModernAppManagement_AppManagement01" ^| Invoke-CimMethod
-MethodName UpdateScanMethod'
The why and how
Since I am a CLI person, and some Windows applications are only available on the Microsoft Store, I wanted to be able to initiate an update cycle from the command-line interface.
So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] microsoft store update all apps from the command-line – Google Search and found these to be valuable:
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Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Microsoft Store, Power User, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/11
Only having really learned to speak English starting in my late teens, I never got the “smarter than the average bear” reference, so I filed what I thought was a bug early 2019: [Wayback/Archive] “You must be smarter than the average bear…” after upgrading to 7zip.install v18.6 and notepadplusplus.install v7.6.2 · Issue #1700 · chocolatey/choco which last year got this useful comment
I had this for several packages now, since I am updating them daily.
I am assuming there is a way to remove versions, which leads to this error until there is a new update.
It was confirmed this summer from
I’m smarter than the average bear at least once or twice a month. I think it might be packages which are pulled back and you happen to have installed that version
The bug got referenced this summer from [Wayback/Archive] Remove warning message about “smarter than the average bear” · Issue #3186 · chocolatey/choco.
This in turn lead to [Wayback/Archive] (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco
That made me realise that for large groups of English speaking people “smarter than the average bear” would actually be a well known thing.
So I searched and learned a thing or two:
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Posted in .NET, Chocolatey, CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/31
Someone pointed me to the answer of [Wayback/Archive] open source – What are the legal considerations when forking a BSD-licensed project? – Software Engineering Stack Exchange by [Wayback/Archive] Earlz (question by [Wayback/Archive] Thomas Owens):
The common thing I see to handle this is basically using some kind of version control and when a file is changed by a large amount, adding a copyright header.
For instance, in OpenBSD I believe they follow a convention like this:
--top of file--
[copyright header of recent "major" editor]
[copyright header of previous major editor]
[copyright header of creator]
(where copyright header is BSD license or whatever)
This handles the copyright issue for the most part. Basically anytime a major edit is done on a file, a copyright header will be added. Major is subjective, but usually involves more than trivial refactoring or porting.
Which meant that some copyrights had to be updated at [Wayback/Archive] Update copyrights · Issue #37 · jpluimers/fritzcap · GitHub
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/29
Often the power is in the combinations of tools.
Read until the epilogue…
Prologue
In this case, I needed to be able to query the JSON results of calls to REST services from the command-line so I could process them in Batch files.
Since I could not find anything readily available, I originally Originally I opted for the PowerShell command-line scripting tool, as that ships with recent Windows versions and can re-use anything that .NET brings. But though [Wayback/Archive] .NET has built in JSON serialization support, there is [Wayback/Archive] no querying support in it.
Then I thought about Delphi, as it [Wayback/Archive] too has a built-in JSON parser, but even the well known [Wayback/Archive] JSON SuperObject library has no query support.
Back to .NET, which – like Delphi – has a well known and respected third party JSON library as well: [Wayback/Archive] NewtonSoft JSON aka JSON.net and that one [Wayback/Archive] does have support for querying JSON with the SelectToken function.
That’s the fundament of the rest of this article, with the potential to be used in a cross-platform as well.
So no need for a plan B.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 