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Best 404 page ever? : ProgrammerHumor

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/13

While doing some ASCII art blog-post drafts cleanup, I bumped into the (now deleted) [Wayback/Archive] Best 404 page ever? : r/ProgrammerHumor which pointed to the (also now deleted).

I got there via my (not deleted!) blog post Why I like PlantUML.

So I dug up the old archived copy of that PlantUML 404-page and made gist out of it.

I soon realised this was all encoded stuff, seemingly a mix of a ROT13 variation and some other shifting around.

Luckily the original page mentioned in the Reddit post was way easier, so I put that in a gist too.

Bot are below the blog-signature. Enjoy!

Oh, and the full text of course above the signature:

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Posted in ASCII, ASCII art / AsciiArt, CSS, Development, Encoding, Fun, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

2023 PDF special voor alle leden: GUI’s programmeren met Python | MagPi

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/13

From a while ago, but this 2023 PDF magazine about building GUI applications with Python using guizero is still very fun to read:

[Wayback/Archive] PDF special voor alle leden: GUI’s programmeren met Python | MagPi

Via: [Wayback/Archive] MagPi Nederland on Twitter: “PDF special voor alle leden: gui’s programmeren met python #raspberrypi #python”

Download:

[Wayback/Archive] https://www.magpi.nl/files/attachment/35 (202209131320GUI NL.pdf).

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This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.…

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12

I forgot both to archive this 10+ year old G+ post and schedule a blog post about it This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.….

ASCII to bezier drawn images in a very clever way.

Found it back when searching for prior blog posts on ASCII art, because of my yesterday’s blog-post ASCII Art Archive, so here it finally is: the links about how to go from ASCII art to bezier images. Have fun!

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Posted in .NET, ASCII art / AsciiArt, C#, Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, Fun, ObjectiveC, Ruby, Software Development | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

ASCII Art Archive, my own ASCII signature, plus many FIGlet and TOIlet ASCII font art links

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/11

Earlier this year I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Archive

This brought back instant memories about ASCII art, so in the future expect af few unfinished blog-posts that were in my “if I ever get to it archive” about it.

Let me start with my very limited ASCII art I used in late 1980s and early 1990s newsgroup and LISTSERV mailing list signature I reconstructed from a comp.virus post¹ having some very old contact data²:

    o  _   _  _   _   _            voice: +31-2522-20908 (18:00-24:00 UTC)
   /  (_' |  (_) (_' | |           snail: P.S.O.
__/                                       attn. Jeroen W. Pluimers
                                          P.O. Box 266
jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl              2170 AG Sassenheim
jeroen_pluimers@f521.n281.z2.fidonet.org  The Netherlands

Shortly after that, my main source of income moved from the command-line to GUI based tools, so I temporarily kind of lost interest in command-line tools and customs. In that period FIGlet (see below) got created, which I totally missed (though I vaguely remember the 1.0 version being named newban).

The link at the start of this blog post not only pointed me to FIGlet, but also has a lot of examples (like some [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Logos – asciiart.eu) of which many by ASCII artist Joan Stark, and also links to JavaScript based tools:

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Thomas Fuchs: “For the love of Eliza, stop using AI-generated images for blog posts and articles …” – Hachyderm.io

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/10

[Wayback/Archive] Thomas 🔭🕹️: “For the love of Eliza, stop using AI-generated images for blog posts and articles. It’s like serving some nice vomit as a side dish with your lovingly prepared homemade dinner.…” – Hachyderm.io

--jeroen

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Video that depicts why I dislike the LLM outcomes so much (author sofia named it “A shitpost that’s been brewing…”)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/06

Phrased as [Wayback/Archive] sofia: “A shitpost that’s been brewing…” – unstable.systems Mastodon (Glitch Edition) I like this video a lot:

If WordPress killed the video, it has that habit, then you can watch it here: [Wayback/Archive] 30dd92563fd33de3.mp4 or [Wayback/Archive] 41cbd023913c0fd6.mp4

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Merging Git repositories without losing history – The Continuous Improver

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/06

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Merging Git repositories without losing history – The Continuous Improver

Via:

–jeroen

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GitHub – louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/05

As promised yesterday¹ because “what’s an open source project without its status page” (and some commercial vendors cough Embarcadero cough could highly benefit from this):

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool.

Some links (so you can try it for yourself):

--jeroen

¹ GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Monitoring, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, TypeScript, Vue.js | Leave a Comment »

Infinite loops and the True Meaning of DevOps (Forrest Brazeal on Twitter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/05

[Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “Multiple people on LinkedIn have commented on this to swear they’ve seen people DELIBERATELY SHIP INFINITE LOOPS to justify their infra footprint That, my friends, is the true meaning of DevOps”

which was sparked because of comments on his [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “Not all “utilization” is created equal…” cartoon:

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GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04

Google Docs alternative for self-hosting or hosted usage: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

The project started last month 12 years ago in 2014 as the “realtime collaborative visual editor with zero knowlege server” with the commit [Wayback/Archive] and so it begins · cryptpad/cryptpad@1508c7b · GitHub.

Via¹: [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz: “I’m currently testing Cryptpad for collaborative working.…” – chaos.social

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