Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/28
In yesterday’s post Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link with the “redirected from” instead of “saved from” I mentioned js-tokenizer for syntax highlighting. When writing that, I didn’t have time to dig deeper, but saved the links for later investigation.
Since I won’t have time to finish writing a complete article on this anytime soon, I decided to just publish the list:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/28
Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] vmstan/gravity-sync: 💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.
Reasoning: [Wayback/Archive] Frequent Questions: Why two Pi-hole? · vmstan/gravity-sync Wiki
Via:
What is better than a Pi-hole blocking ads via DNS on your network? That’s right, Two Pi-hole! But if you have more than one Pi-hole (PH) in your network you’ll want a simple way to keep the list configurations identical between the two. I’ve recently been toiling away at a script to do exactly this, and what started as a few lines lines of bash was shared with some friends, and has grown into what I now call Gravity Sync — which I’d now like to share with you all for your feedback.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/27
This is a follow-up on Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link which can be accessed from multiple URLs, some through redirection:
You can see the difference in these archived links (the navivate was a typo that I only spotted after the original blog post got published):
I wanted a Bookmarklet to find the last link; the one in the referenced blog post didn’t.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/15
On OpenWRT GL.iNET based devices, the WireGuard client does not restart upon reboot, even if it was started before rebooting.
Hopefully the /usr/bin/wireguard_watchdog script will help with this as others indicates it should.
My first try was no succes, but since it is supposed to run from cron it does no output. The script on GL-SFT1200 firmware version 3.215, script /usr/bin/wireguard_watchdog is different from the one in the OpenWRT repository, so it needs some investigation.
Some links for checking this out:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/14
I had to pick up a package keying in a 6 digit code using the below PostNL UI.
It was horrible. Don’t implement your numeric input UI like this: use a telephone keypad like or calculator numpad like keypad UI.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/13
The summary of [Wayback/Archive] Is Fortran better than Python for teaching the basics of numerical linear algebra? – Dr. Jean-Christophe Loiseau is:
Modern Fortran helps a lot here and shows that after the initial 13 year gaps between FORTRAN 77 and Fortran 90, and between Fortran 90 and Fortran 2003 (the ANSI Standard Fortran and Fortran 95 in between versions were just minor updates), Modern Fortran has come a very long way and now as a thriving community and an extensive list of Fortran software and tools.
Other typed languages and tool sets like C# and Delphi come to mind here as well though you need libraries with 1-based data structures to solve the first point.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/08
I feel old, because I vividly remember the PCX (1985) graphics file format: it was the defacto standard under DOS.
TIFF (1986) was slightly younger, and came from the scanner background resulting in very large files though unlike PCX (which had lossless compression), TIFF supported both lossless and lossy compression.
On Windows and OS/2, you had BMP (1985, lossless initially only black and white).
All three suffered from the same problems: different implementations causing all sorts of compatibility problems
Those were the reason for the implementation of newer file formats for graphics like JPG (1992, lossy) and PNG (1996, lossless).
[Wayback/Archive] What was before JPEG? #pcx #shorts – YouTube – @Vitaskhr
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/07
SVG can be beautifully crafted XML representing vector graphics with full support for CSS while also supporting raster graphics. [Wayback/Archive] A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau explains how you can do that.
Note that in practice most tools generate horrible SVG and CSS.
Via [Wayback/Archive] I finally get how SVGs work – YouTube
--jeroen
[Wayback/Archive] I finally get how SVGs work – YouTube
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/06
Everytime when installing a pfSense router from scratch, I seem to re-learn a few of the below quirks. So it was finally time to document them (:
Quite a few of my pfSense configurations are just doing routing between various networks, should not provide DHCP leases and do not always need or have a WAN connected (i.e. they are LAN-only).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/05
It took me a few queries to find the correct online solution for this problem: after adding a TrueType (and it’s extension: OpenType) font using the built-in MacOS Font Book, they do not show up in Pages or Preview, not even after validating the fonts in Font Book.
Solutions:
launchctl kickstart -k gui/`id -u`/com.apple.xtyped
The last one does not work on my Apple Silicon machine, the first two work fine.
For Preview, you have to Force Quit it then start it (so it re-opens all the previous files) to take effect.
I needed this, because I
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 