Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/21
Via [Archive.is] Kevin on Twitter: “Gotta say this looks amazing and I actually didn’t know you can customize the command line on Windows this far. Read this blogpost by @shanselman , highly recommended. 👇 “
For my link archive: [Wayback] My Ultimate PowerShell prompt with Oh My Posh and the Windows Terminal – Scott Hanselman’s Blog
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/20
This was a trip down memory lane where I was totally unaware that you could embed 6502 assembly language inside AppleSoft BASIC code.
It turns you can, and even better: the Twitter bot named AppleIIBot could execute it too!
Though I bumped into AppleIIBot during winter 2021, I published the BBC equivalent last week (see BBC trip down memory lane – 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator) as that one got released earlier.
For the moment it is down because Elon blew up Twitter and shut down on 2022-11-05, but hopefully – like the BBC equivalent – it will resurface on a Mastodon instance somewhere in the future.
Luckily all old Tweets with code and rendering are still there, though you need a Twitter account to view them: Elon broke the feature of anonymous access seeing all messages in a thread.
Below the signature are the full Tweets that led me into it; the texts are these:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/19
I wish Wordle would be more accessible, but alas after all this time it still isn’t.
Luckily there is [Wayback/Archive] wa11y.co: Wordle Accessibility
At the end of your Wordle game, click “Share” to copy your result then paste it below to generate descriptive text.
It is open source on GitHub at [Wayback/Archive] cariad/wa11y.co: Makes Wordle results accessible. (most of it is written in JavaScript)
I first bumped into it via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/15
Cool event – for me even relatively close (about 60 minutes driving) – [Wayback/Archive] The Global Delphi Summit taking place this year on June 13 and 14.
The speaker line-up is great as are their sessions. The main web-site pages are:
- The date: 13-14th of June
- The Entry-fee:
299,-, 249,- (early-bird discount until April 1st, normal price until June 7th)- Event duration: 10:00 – 18:00
- The location: Spinnekop 3, 1444 GN Purmerend, the Netherlands
The conference is marked as being in Amsterdam, but the location is actually at the [Wayback/Archive] H20 Esports Campus | Event Venue | Rabo Esports Stadium in Purmerend about 20km north of the Amsterdam city centre.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Summit 2024 – GDK Software
If you come from abroad, consider spending a few extra days. Purmerend has a nice old Dutch city center with roots going back as far as the 1100s. The map File:Waterland 1288.jpg – Wikimedia Commons shows it situated in between various lakes which in the 1600s all became land by pumping out the water and transforming them into polders. There are scenic routes over many of the dikes surrounding these polders.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/13
I am publishing this in order of the Twitter bot Social bots appearing, though I found this one later than the Apple ][ equivalent:
[Wayback/Archive] 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator which is a GitHub repository with full source code.
The odd thing is that I bumped into it while performing a [Wayback/Archive] bot that reads unicode – Twitter Search / Twitter (I was looking for a bot responding to fancy Unicode in account names and messages that makes using Twitter for visually impaired a pain to use wich I covered in To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y).
It made me find this thread stat started in spring 2022:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/12
Still working on handling open Chrome tabs after having moved in the period that GitLab had quite a few issues causing my PagerDuty alerts to go wild.
Today PagerDuty gave me 7 calls in 4 hours again (see [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “@gitlab Since 20240312T1727Z I get PagerDuty alerts from HetrixTools for some pages hosted on GitLab. It would be nice if someone could have a look at gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/17717“).
In adddition I need to check if anything made it to the GitLab issue list from the 20230827 connectivity issues I mentioned at [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Is it @gitlab hosting having transcontinental issues, or are other continental connections affected as well? These are from two different *.gitlab.io pages as measured via @HetrixTools . No issues are listed at status.gitlab.com“.
Back then, this was the most important one: [Wayback/Archive] GitLab System Status: GitLab.com availability issues – October 30, 2023 15:39 UTC
Likely because of this, wiert.me.gitlab.io had been down for a while as well on 20231031 (see [Wayback/Archive] wiert.me.gitlab.io (Recent History) – HetrixTools down from 2023-10-30T15:24Z until 2023-10-30T16:14Z for 3 + 3 + 11 + 27 = 44 minutes.)
Back then, the hardest part was to quickly find out if there was indeed an issue being investigated at all.
The GitLab status multi-media account on Twitter just points to the status page, which makes it hard to find the underlying issue.
I didn’t archive that one in time, but when I got the alerts it didn’t show anything and when it was resolved it was already beyond the cut-off timestamp to mark it as “same day” and the graph didn’t show much down-time [Wayback/Archive] GitLab System Status graph didn’t show much down-time:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/12
This sparked some great responses [Wayback/Archive] Iris Classon on Twitter: “What’s the least privacy invading way to track some metrics regarding traffic to my website? Basic stuff, not length of stay, color of underwear or body count.”, for instance:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/07
I like this very interesting take: [Wayback/Archive] Florian Haas on Twitter: “For people who keep arguing that an inherently complex system can be permanently reduced in complexity (frequently, such people are software engineering managers, executives, or product managers), I sometimes wonder if they’ve ever heard of the second law of thermodynamics.“
Like technical debt, this is another take from the real world that you can apply to software development.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/06
I totally missed this feature got implemented: [Wayback/Archive] Use Remembered Arguments for a Package During Upgrades · Issue #797 · chocolatey/choco. I also seem to be lucky I have not tried it out yet (:
I bumped into it via [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Notepad++ 8.4.4, which had this interesting comment:
If you want Notepad++ 32 bit and you want it to stay on 32 bit with upgrades, ensure you are on Chocolatey 0.10.4 (or newer). Then add `
-x86` to your installation arguments. Then turn on the remembered arguments feature with ‘choco feature enable -n useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades‘ – this will ensure that `-x86` gets passed on upgrade when running `choco upgrade all`. For more information on how this works, see https://github.com/chocolat…797
First of all, if you started using Chocolatey at or before 0.14, the useRememberedArgumentsForUpgrades feature is disabled by default and kept that way even after upgrading to the most recent version. You can see executing choco feature list on a system that started with Chocolatey:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/06
D20 shaped dice can be handy for software development blame…
Via [WayBack] Amy Renee on Twitter : “When you need to roll for blame in IT… 😂❤️… “
[WayBack] rachel binx on Twitter : “… “:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 