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Jip van den Toorn | de Volkskrant – Vrijwilliger (1 oktober 2025)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01
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Steve Troughton-Smith: (paraphrased) ChatGPT can be OK for translating ObjectiveC to Swift
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01
[Wayback/Archive] Steve Troughton-Smith: “I’m sure everybody is sick of …” – Mastodon
I’m sure everybody is sick of hearing about ChatGPT by now, but one OP feature it has is the capability to translate code between different programming languages, for example from Objective-C to Swift (or vice versa). An incredible accelerant, if nothing else. This was indeed the final push I needed to get @broadcastsapp over the finish line on its migration, and Broadcasts v3.1 doesn’t have a single line of ObjC left 🫡
–jeroen
Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, ChatGPT, Development, GPT-3, ObjectiveC, Software Development, Swift | Leave a Comment »
Anyone having experience with HttpMaster | Master HTTP Testing and Debugging?
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/30
Is there anyone having experience with [Wayback/Archive] HttpMaster | Master HTTP Testing and Debugging?
Via [Wayback/Archive] HttpMaster (@http_master)
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Development, Software Development, Testing, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Reminder to self: Remeha Calenta links
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/29
Even een reminder aan mezelf, omwat we aan Remeha Calenta Ace hebben en het niet helemaal duidelijk is of deze bij de vorige bewoners echt goed op het huis is ingeregeld.
Het nadeel van Remeha is dat ze volstrekt chaotisch onduidelijke handleidinge hebben waar het lastig is essentiele instellingen in terug te vinden: er zijn veel te veel instellingen met allemaal onduidelijke nummering waarbij hele reeksen nummers worden overgeslagen.
De Remeha Calenta Ace serie is inmidels zo’n 7 jaar in productie.
Posted in Development, DIY, Encoding, LifeHacker, Power User, Software Development, Unicode | Leave a Comment »
30+ years of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines from 1985 (and earlier Lisa / Apple II equivalents)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25
I hope someone has also archived all these in the Internet Archive as this is a great collection of historic material: [WaybackSave/Archive] GitHub – gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, et al.
If you have more of them: add them via a pull-request.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion : Apple : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A client that went belly up in the early 1990s had all these and similar books. In retrospect, I though have found a way to obtain them but back then I didn’t value the uniqueness of them enough and didn’t have the storage space for it (I lived in a 30m² apartment).
Posted in //e, 68k, Apple, Apple Lisa, Classic Macintosh, Development, Hardware, History, Mac, NeXT, Power User, Software Development, User Experience (ux) | Leave a Comment »
bash alias to decode email Quoted-Printable stdin data
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25
Perl isn’t my strength, so I was glad to find the below links that inspired me to add this bash function to my profile decoding Quote-Printable email data (for instance used by sendmail and postfix to store SMTP message files):
# https://superuser.com/questions/1452249/fix-revert-wrong-encoding-of-file function sendmail-decode-quoted-printable-from-stdin() { perl -0777 -ne 'use MIME::QuotedPrint; print decode_qp($_)' }
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Perl, Power User, Python, Scripting, sendmail, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
mutool: all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/23
Sometimes I feel like having lived under a rock for ages despite trying to live the command-line life as much as possible.
Anyway: not that long ago I learned about [Wayback/Archive] mutool: all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier
It is part of [Wayback/Archive] Package mupdf – man pages | ManKier which also has [Wayback/Archive] mupdf: MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer written in portable C | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier.
MuPDF – a kind of sibling to GhostScript – lives at [Wayback/Archive] MuPDF: The ultimate library for managing PDF documents.
The below query got me to [Wayback/Archive] mupdf/docs/man/mutool.1 at master · ccxvii/mupdf · GitHub in the “wrong” repository [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ccxvii/mupdf: mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git
The actual repositories are at:
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Console (command prompt window), Development, PDF, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
August 2025 — AI False Claim Monitor – NewsGuard: AI False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/18

NewsGuard August 2025 One Year Progress Report: Percentage of Responses Containing False Information
This is what I have been warning for since 2020: AI LLM will end up in a downward quality spiral.
My reasoning back then, and still now is that they:
- cannot distinguish LLM generated training data from human data making the LLM worse over time
- don’t perform human curation thereby not solving the worsening
I’m not surprised by the [Wayback/Archive] August 2025 — AI False Claim Monitor – NewsGuard summary:
AI False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year
Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Generative AI, LLM, Software Development | Leave a Comment »





