Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/16
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket
One reason is archival of books. Even (or maybe especially) in IT, books already have historic meaning especially in narrower fields where they often are not available in the Internet Archive or have been scanned by Google Books.
Via/related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/11
Quoting in full from [Wayback/Archive] Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space to demonstrate a zero-width-space problem with WordPress too.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/10
[Wayback] Archive.is blog — What is the long version of the url please. …
Click on “share” button to see different forms of linking to a page.
For example
https://archive.vn/Aoans/share
So there are two tricks:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/09
Related to WhatsApp Desktop for Mac or PC cannot only chat but also voice and video call: installing WhatsApp from the command-line.
That was easy to do via winget:
c:\temp>winget install -e --id WhatsApp.WhatsApp Found WhatsApp [WhatsApp.WhatsApp] Version 2.2222.12 This application is licensed to you by its owner. Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages. Downloading https://web.whatsapp.com/desktop/windows/release/x64/WhatsAppSetup.exe ██████████████████████████████ 145 MB / 145 MB Successfully verified installer hash Starting package install... Successfully installed
This was a while ago, so the version number by now is dated, but it is about the command winget install -e --id WhatsApp.WhatsApp
Via:
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/whatsapp-desktop/9NKSQGP7F2NH–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/04
For my link archive:
In todays cross-platform world, it pays if your tooling can send logging to syslog.
Though originating from the CP/M and SunOS background, I have done most of my professional development work in Windows back-ends and front-ends, so here are some links relevant to that:
BSD SYSLOG protocol
Used RFC: RFC-3164
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/02
An interesting issue at [Wayback/Archive] Khalid ⚡️: “I just used #JetBrainsRider to find a deadlock scenario in #dotnet that I would not have guessed would deadlock. The Console needs to be initialized since the initialization uses a lock the first time. Using it in parallel tasks causes deadlocks. #dotnet This is excellent tooling!…” – Mastodon.
It boils down to a non-public Console.EnsureInitialized method being called from multiple threads causes deadlocks. So far, it looks it can only be called as part of referring to Console.In or Console.Out.
I could only find one potentially related bug, which is [Wayback/Archive] NativeRuntimeEventSource behaving poorly in conjunction with other providers · Issue #88011 · dotnet/runtime · GitHub and being worked on, for .NET 9 or later:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/02
When sharing YouTube videos via the mobile apps, they are shortened using the youtu.be domain.
So this is a reminder to write a Bookmarklet based URL-shortener myself for this and extend it so it also understands the various YouTube URL parameters (like start time).
The transformation is documented:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/26
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – KirillOsenkov/LargeAddressAware: A build tools package that adds support for making 32-bit exes LARGEADDRESSAWARE
Hopefully this can be applied to Delphi projects as well. If not then in Delphi you can manually call this in an post-build task.
Addition late 20240626
[Wayback/Archive] Kirill Osenkov: “@wiert I also found that you can…” – Mastodon
@wiert I also found that you can target AnyCPU 32-bit preferred and it will give you the same address space. So that tool is only for x86.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Meik Tranel on X: “Please for the love of all that is holy. Do not build #dotnet tools to serve a non interactive task that is supposed to be run during a build – use an #MSBuild task package. Also #JS/#NPM devs should not be allowed to write tooling. Thanks for coming to my ted talk…”.
The Delphi bit inspired a few months ago by: [Wayback/Archive] Andreas on X: “Will there ever be a 64bit Delphi IDE or at least a LargeAddressAware version. Our Projekt crashes the IDE between 14-18 compilations because it runs out of memory. Maybe I have to patch the IDE myself by moving all .NET and Compiler memory allocations above the 2 GB address.”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/26
During my year+ of cancer treatments, Embarcadero did a tiny thing that makes [Wayback/Archive]FreeAndNil safer to use. In order to do so, the method now lies to you by taking a const [ref] parameter which technically it is not allowed to change, but the internal hackery allows it to. Dalija Prasnikar explained it in 2020: [Wayback/Archive] Magic behind FreeAndNil.
The new signature is this:
procedure FreeAndNil(const [ref] Obj: TObject); inline;
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/25
Every once in a while, b0rk (Julia Evans, of [Wayback/Archive] wizard zines fame) asks interesting questions like below that results in lot of cool links.
I have blogged assemblies of them before (see for instance Lots of interesting git links via b0rk on Twitter) and this one is no different:
[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “what are some helpful programming learning games? thinking of things like mystery.knightlab.com for SQL, and flexboxfroggy.com, and ohmygit.org especially interested in games that have helped you learn something”
The response was overwhelmingly good (I tried to indicate when games are not free or not playable from a web browser). I summarised it below.
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