Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/30
Last 90 days uptime on 20260427 of the GitHub Platform: 87.25%
Because of two alternative GitHub status pages, a lot of people now realise that GitHub gives a rosier result than the official pages.
April uptime not even had one nine, dropping below 89%.
Which begs this interesting question
“How many other services are painting a far rosier picture than reality on their service status pages?” by Dare Obasanjo: “GitHub just published a blogpo…” – mas.to:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/29
As a Windows Developer, this was a huge trip down memory lane: [Wayback/Archive] 100 Years of Microsoft Stories – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/29
Donderdag 7 mei 2026 geeft Jorrit Geels op de NLUUG voorjaarsconferentie in het Van der Valk Hotel Utrecht¹ een presentatie over eenvoudigere ontwerpen, duidelijkere mentale modellen en beter onderhoudbare code.
Hoe je dat krijgt? Zet digitale toegankelijkheid consequent op nummer 1, en de rest volgt.
Het resultaat? Je product wordt voor iedereen beter, waardoor alle gebruikers veel effectiever zijn en je boven je concurrentie uitstijgt.
Het programma staat hieronder², eerst de aankondiging van [Wayback/Archive] Vereniging NLUUG: “Toegankelijkheid wordt vaak ge…” – NLUUG Mastodon server:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/28
[Wayback/Archive] 13 Things No One Tells You About 3D Printing as a Beginner – YouTube only had a numbered index, so I commented the context index:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/28
In case I ever want to run my own URL shortener: [Wayback/Archive] YOURLS/YOURLS: 🔗 The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/23
Over the last few years I have seen more and more posts where people are fed up by Agile.
The whole fundament if Agile, or better any lightweight methodology, is to be able to flow as a team. That is only possible when the flow is not disturbed by a truckload of rules or schedules overloaded with ceremonies.
The best way to implement over the last 40+ years I have been in IT is to use common sense.
This basically has not changed since before “I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum), so please read this other quote from René Descartes‘s same book “Discourse on Method” where* he begins by allowing himself some wit:
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
Or in other words*:
Everyone has a similar and sufficient amount of common sense, but it is rarely used well.
For me, lightweight methodologies vary by team and project and always involve both critical thinking and together with other team members regularly thinking about:
Agile Software Development is that simple.
Oh: always think about why Software Development or any other work you are involved in differs much or little from Lean Management in car manufacturing (the place where many people advocate the Agile methodologies in Software Development are supposed to stem from: strongly disagree with that as they have their own origin. Try to think about why I disagree, even if your opinion differs from mine).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/22
(This post too suffered from the WordPress.com missed schedule bug which has been unfixed since 2012)
[Wayback/Archive] LR: “warming myself on this post like a space heater…” – Gamedev Mastodon
[Wayback/Archive] Post by @jensfoell.de — Bluesky
Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
In other news today, in addition to the earlier leaked Anthropic AI model, Mythos got leaked as well – [Wayback/Archive] Dany :verified_gay:: “Ah yes, the almighty Mythos, …” – HSNL Social:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/22
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/21
This batch file works for modern Click-to-Run (sometimes called ClickToRun, Click2Run or C2R) based Office installations (note the odd lowercase microsoft shared which indeed is the actual directory name):
if exist "%CommonProgramFiles%\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" ( "%CommonProgramFiles%\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user ) else ( echo could not find the Office Updater )
This for sure does not work for MSI based Office 2013 and lower (which are updated through Windows Update anyway). Since I only have 2021 online (Click-to-Run) installs and higher to test with: those work fine.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/20
Via [Wayback/Archive] Importing a repository with GitHub Importer – GitHub Docs I found [Wayback/Archive] Import repository · GitHub which can import from Subversion, Mercurial, TFVC, and Git as per [Wayback/Archive] About GitHub Importer – GitHub Docs.
Note this will import the repository, but not any surrounding things (like tickets/issues, wiki, etc).
In that sense, the more than 10 year old [Wayback/Archive] SourceForge: GitHub Project Importer as documented in [Wayback/Archive] SourceForge Support / Documentation / GitHub Importer does a way better job the other way around.
If you want to import more than just a repository into GitHub, then some inspiration is at [Wayback/Archive] Migrate from Sourceforge to Github – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Matthew Talbert, [Wayback/Archive] Masood Khaari, [Wayback/Archive] Thomas and [Wayback/Archive] Sergey Ponomarev) for instance with these tools:
Especially the last one is interesting as it allows you to separate tickets from repository import. This opens up the opportunity to do the svn to git conversion yourself and keep that conversion in place to you can use it to sync incoming svn changes towards the git repository.
The above does not cover CVS. For that, be sure to read these:
Via [Wayback/Archive] import sourceforge into github – Google Search.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 