Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/29
I while ago I was playing around in PowerShell with Get-PnpDevice (which got introduced in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019):
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@jilles_com … this is the difference between only connected disks versus including ones that had been connected in the past.Output difference between Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive -Status OK Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive …” – Mastodon
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/28
Hopefully by now discounts like this are still available: [Wayback/Archive] Discover the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription benefits | Google Cloud Blog
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/24
Very cool web site that I only discovered last year, with the clever name: [Wayback/Archive] Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”
Drop a font!
Fonts aren’t uploaded,
they stay on your computer
Back then I used it to investigate some properties of SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) fonts as sometimes editing a PDF is easier than manually entering/transcribing it in MuseScore.
Of course you can use local font tools, but this is far easier for occasional use.
The beta can do even more at the risk of bumping into bugs: [Wayback/Archive] Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”
Note the colour matching of the text around the circle with the fondue background image.
Oh: it is open source too, written mainly in JavaScript, CSS and a tiny bits of HTML and Python, based on Vue.js and npm, and available as parts in the repositories of [Wayback/Archive] Wakamai Fondue · GitHub:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/24
[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “after the bug is fixed: write a postmortem”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/23
This is a reminder to check if this below late 2019 proposal inspired by Visual Studio Code Screencast mode¹ already made it: [Wayback/Archive] Overlay of commands / shortcuts / keys pressed – Screencast Mode · Issue #981 · microsoft/PowerToys · GitHub which mentions some tools that can already do this
Here is a list of FOSS apps that currently do this (sorted by stars):
- github.com/Code52/carnac – Unmaintained, does not work on most applications
- github.com/Phaiax/Key-n-Stroke
- github.com/marius-sucan/KeyPress-OSD – Commercial version available
- https://github.com/Jagailo/YetAnotherKeyDisplayer
- mulaRahul/keyviz – Quite new and looks good
To add to this list (unsorted):
- github.com/nutti/Screencast-Keys – Blender addon
- github.com/AxDSan/KeyPose – free alternative to MousePosé for Windows
- github.com/keycastr/keycastr – macOS only
In the meantime, I am using Key-n-Stroke as it is the only still supported one I found that is easily turned off/on when typing sensitive content like passwords:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/22
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – minvws/horsebattery: A password generator inspired by https://xkcd.com/936/
Inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] xkcd: Password Strength
Curated Dutch word list: [Wayback/Archive] horsebattery/config/nl/word-list.txt at main · minvws/horsebattery · GitHub
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Discord
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/22
A while ago, I had to figure out the field sizes for some Windows API functions. In the distance past, the base data types used to be defined in windows.h, but over the decades that file has been split into various other files as there are far more than just the BOOL, int, UINT, DWORD, HWND, LPARAM and WPARAM data types. Currently the data types are defined in [Wayback/Wayback] Windows Data Types (BaseTsd.h) – Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn.
Note that C++ allows to specify bit field sizes for fields in struct composite data types, so under some circumstances, fields my have a different number of bits than you might expect from their data type.
Via [Wayback/Archive] c++ dword uint size – Google Search.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/21
Just in case I ever want to bind a BSKY handle to a domain name I own:
Via:
You can claim your own domain-name as username (like I did) by registering an
_atprotoTXTdns-record.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/21
This started out ad a post to make things easier for my mentally brother, but then I figured it makes it so much easier for myself as well: getting rid of the evern returning Windows nag screens. Not just the ones after logon during initial Windows install that get back about every other Windows 20H update (thank god they stepped away from 19## version numbering that felt so, ehm, last millennium), but also the various “suggestions” in start menu, on the taskbar and elsewhere.
I understand that basically giving Windows 10 and 11 for free to many Windows 7/8 licensed machines or Windows-preinstalled machines induces Microsoft to see Windows as an advertising environment, but hey: many users can do without these distractions.
It is hard to solve, as even the underlying registry settings seem to be reset every once in a while, and solving it globally is not an option: the settings are a per-user one. Which means you need to run script early during every Windows logon to overwrite these settings.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/17
It is odd that Microsoft now verifies to an external party because most of the Microsoft KB articles got deleted: [Wayback/Archive] Q145994: HOWTO: Calculate Dialog Units When Not Using the System Font | KnowledgeBase Archive.
Part of them document aspects from Microsoft Foundation Class Library – Wikipedia which is still supported.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] How does the dialog manager calculate the average width of a character? – The Old New Thing:
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