Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/11
I used the below links to prepare for my MVVM talk a few years ago (which is linked at my blog post Delphi MVVM links).
Originally, I wrote this post in 2014 as a draft and just found out I never published it. Back then I didn’t add archived links because link rot wasn’t such a big thing. Nowadays it is (more than half the originals links died because of link rot), so I added archived links where possible. All in all just one link that was not archived at all – not a bad score!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/08
A friend is starting a new business, so I am curious to what [Wayback/Archive] Sonde — Arriving soon will bring (or brought if this post scheduling arrives later than their release).
Looking at the taglines below, I think is that this is an intelligent (unlike LLM “intelligent”) source analysis/probing tool.
The Arrival animation sequence at [Wayback/Archive] Sonde — Arrival attributes the software development past in 29 stages, all the way back from FORTRAN till the more recent Swift until finally showing the moon, hopefully indicating a release before the Artemis IV will land people on the moon:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06
A while ago, I got reminded of the [Source:/Archive] 1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen… that was posted in Newsgroups: net.flame, net.jokes (which had many ROT13 jokes) back more than 40 years ago by the (in)famous – depending on your point of view – Rich Rosen on his site [Wayback/Archive] neurozen.com – Rich Rosen’s web site (which is in a subfolder, I think because of humour, see [Wayback/Archive] Apache Tomcat/7.0.62 – Error report – this Apache Tomcat version 7 is has been end-of-life since the end of March 2021 :).
I regard is as both fun and insightful, fun for instance as all rules are rated “RULE #1”, and insightful for instance as this is a great quote for on a T-shirt:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/02
Found [Wayback/Archive] VoctoTV – Apps on Google Play which successfully casts media.ccc.de ([Wayback/Archive] home – media.ccc.de) to my Chromecast devices.
Great!
Via:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/04
Hopefully by now a 4th edition is available: [Wayback/Archive] Effective Java, 3rd Edition [Book].
Since I do not program in Java often, the above book is indispensable.
Read this review why as he much better phrases the reasons than I can: [Wayback/Archive] Effective Java by Joshua Bloch — A Must Read Book for Java Developers | by javinpaul | Javarevisited | Medium.
For Java versions 9 and up, read his recommendations here: [Wayback/Archive] Top 7 Courses to Learn New Features of Java 8 to Java 17 in 2023 | by javinpaul | Javarevisited | Medium.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] effective java – Google Search
Buy: [Wayback/Archive] Effective Java : Bloch, Joshua: Amazon.de: Books
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/26
Some of the video URLs of #kotlinconf23 most via [Wayback/Archive] KotlinConf’23 – YouTube:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/19
Or in other words: with this mechanism drivers can be a generic alternative to be installed when no more specific or newer driver is available.
Via [Wayback/Archive] ⚜ 8-bit Hero (aka Sven) ⚜ on Twitter: “Wow, Intel has been writing windows divers for a long time! Had no idea.”
Intel Drivers dated 1970 shown by [Wayback/Archive] Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) in his Keynote streamed at around the 1200 second mark: [Wayback/Archive] KotlinConf’23 – Effectenbeurszaal Day 2 – YouTube.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/12
Based on that, I added a bit of logging:
const a = undefined; const result1 = a ?? 0 + 10; const b = 100; const result2 = b ?? 0 + 10; console.log(result1); console.log(result2);
Two questions:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/17
I will need this one day: [Wayback/Archive] MaxiHuHe04/iTunes-Backup-Explorer: A graphical tool that can extract and replace files from encrypted and non-encrypted iOS backups which is based on [Wayback/Archive] How to decrypt an encrypted Apple iTunes iPhone backup? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Aidan Fitzpatrick and [Wayback/Archive] andrewdotn) which has this very important remark:
decrypting your iOS device’s backup removes its encryption. To protect your privacy and security, you should only run these scripts on a machine with full-disk encryption.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jilles Groenendijk on Twitter: “iTunes-Backup-Explorer: Want to extract data from an iTunes backup? Forget all the expensive tools that trick you an a monthly fee and limit you to a few phones. Use this: …”
Note: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/03
A few years back I tweeted [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@b0rk @jilles_com Acids vs bases.”
It was a kind of tongue-in-cheek reaction (with a way better picture below) to a very valuable post by b0rk (Julia Evans) on both Twitter and Mastodon [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “bases” / [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans: “bases title: bases # we usually…” – Mastodon for two reasons:
Back to Julia’s post:
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