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python – What is a virtualenv, and why should I use one? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/29

I knew that venv is always needed inside your project directory when using Python, and roughly why, but not exactly why, so the points in the below StackOverflow Q/A sequence and underlying article are important to save in my link archive.

[Wayback/Archive] python – What is a virtualenv, and why should I use one? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Kevin and [Wayback/Archive] Thanh Nguyen).

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javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28

TL;DR: you can force opening a new Window over a new Tab, but not the other way around.

Background information: [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow.

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Posted in Chrome, Development, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Opera, Power User, Safari, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Any YouTube ID is a YouTube ID which means you can use any shorts ID and music ID to watch as a YouTube URL (adding functionality shorts and music URLs lack)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/24

YouTube has diversified its content separating out YouTube Shorts and YouTube Music.

The main YouTube viewing experience has a few advantages over the other two experiences:

  1. content can be monetised
  2. content can arranged into lists (including Watch Later)
  3. auto-play can be turned off

All below links have the same ID, but the ones with checkmarks can use all the above features whereas the ones with crosses cannot.

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Posted in Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development, YouTube, YouTubeMusic | Leave a Comment »

Applesoft BASIC in JavaScript

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23

Not my first BASIC (which was on calculators: The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)), but the first BASIC on a machine with a real keyboard was Applesoft BASIC on an Apple II:

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Posted in //e, 6502, Apple, Apple ][, Applesoft BASIC, BASIC, Development, History, Mastodon, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter | Leave a Comment »

MySQL: Boiling JFrogs | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23

I love how Kristian KΓΆhntopp often turns series of valuable tweets in a blog post. [Wayback/Archive] MySQL: Boiling JFrogs | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp is no different and has much more than the few quotes below (especially about the process of finding the solutions):

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Posted in Database Development, Development, MySQL, Profiling, Profiling-Performance-Measurement, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Some notes on reStructuredText in vscode now that reStructuredText by LeXtudio Inc. got redesigned

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22

For my list archive; need to check this out because reStructuredText by LeXtudio Inc. got redesigned, deferring much of its behaviour to Esbonio.

Anyway:

For me, figuring that out under pressure how to get this to working was too much, so I deferred that to a later point in time and perform a reStructuredText to Markdown conversion in stead (I wasn’t using very esoteric .RST features, and since most people use Markdown anyway it made the documents even more accessible for others to extend). Links on that conversion:

Both Markdown and reStructuredText are problematic for background images, so I opted to cut the conference background slide in half, put the top part above the title, and the bottom half below the final part of the presentation, as this didn’t really work well either:

Oh, and for Visual Studio Code:

Queries:

--jeroen

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Three dashes or a rendered horizontal table at the top of your GitHub markdown document? That’s YAML metadata

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22

Many Markdown documents on GitHub have three dashes (---) at the top (and rendered a horizontal table displays).

I didn’t know this markdown construct, and it appears to be GitHub specific: it is a way to render YAML metadata (for instance used while blogging).

So I searched forΒ [Wayback/Archive] three dashes table markdown – Google Search and foundΒ [Wayback/Archive] Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents | The GitHub Blog.

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Posted in Blogging, Configuration Management, Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, YAML | Leave a Comment »

Install an old version with homebrew for macOS Β· GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21

Fork of a repository that shows how to do this with normal Homebrew installs [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS Β· GitHub has my notes to do a similar thing with Homebrew cask installs.

Fork of:Β [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS Β· GitHub.

TODO: check notes to ensure they really work on a different system and were not a lucky shot.

Notes:

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Posted in Apple, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, gist, GitHub, Home brew / homebrew, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Ruby, Scripting, Source Code Management | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

XKCD to ExplainXKCD Bookmarklet

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21

Sometimes the XKCD episodes are hard to get, so I wanted a Bookmarklet to navigate to [Wayback/Archive] explain xkcd.

Here is the regular expression to change the domain name part if it matches: [Wayback/Archive] regex101: build, test, and debug regex: VI34VW with this generated sed code:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, sed, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Updated monthly after the 8th day of the month – Welcome to the BAG: The Dutch Building and Addresses database – Bert Hubert’s writings

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/17

[Wayback/Archive] Welcome to the BAG: The Dutch Building and Addresses database – Bert Hubert’s writings

Bert made a test page for it too: [Wayback/Archive] berthub.eu/pcode/2513AA/14 (postal code for “Binnenhof”)

And a repository: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – berthubert/bagconv: Convert Dutch building/dwelling administration into a simpler format

The BAG (Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen) information, which is maintained by the Dutch Kadaster (Cadastre), allows bug reporting, which is processed remarkably quickly: [Wayback/Archive] Postcode + huisnummer niet uniek in Emmen? – Datasets / BAG – Geoforum

Via: [Wayback/Archive] bert hubert πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί: “I’ve updated my conversion of the official Dutch address, postcode, building database (BAG) with the July 2024 release. Description in English, API, code, CSV files can be found on …” – Fosstodon

--jeroen

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