Every now and then, documentation in source code requires an ASCII table. Sometimes table cells are spanning multiple rows or/and column.
TL;DR: The tools I tried did not support that, so manual labour is still needed.
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Generating ASCII-tables with spanning cells: manual labour still needed
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/28
Posted in ASCII, ASCII art / AsciiArt, Development, Documentation Development, Encoding, Excel, Fun, HTML, Office, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | Tagged: 2 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of GitLab pages links and Git pushing a relatively large commit to GitLab: “error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502”
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/27
Got an error when pushing a relatively large commit to GitLab: error: RPC failed; HTTP 502 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 502
There was no big difference in information between these commands¹:
git pushgit push --verbose
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The GitLab.com risk of having “Inactive project deletion” disabled and “Delayed project deletion” enabled
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/27
After the 2022 GitLab.com backlash* to auto-delete “inactive” (for whichever metric of “inactive”) repositories of free users, I thought they would have multiple checks in place to prevent that from happening.
TL;DR: of two possible checks to prevent this, only one is in place.
This means that if by accident one of those checks stops working, all inactive repositories will be be deleted after a 7 day retention period. Which is very short, especially when you miss the email about it (for instance because of holiday or health reasons).
That bad!
How/why I found out
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Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News (and a few links on SEDE – Stack Exchange Data Explorer)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/26
Interesting article: [Wayback/Archive] Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking… thanks to AI – Sherwood News. with this important quote:
The complex questions still get asked on Stack because there’s no other place. If the LLMs are only as good as the data, which is typically human curated, we’re one of the best places for that, if not the best for technology.
I wonder about how far it has declined now, and also think these are reasons for the decline as well:
- a lot of fundamental questions for each topic have already been asked
- few new programming languages gained popularity over the last decade (I think golang was the last major one)
- discussions on GitHub and to a lesser extent GitLab have taken over a lot of traffic
- toxic behaviours on mainly the Stack overflow and meta site I mentioned in The toxic reactions to “What would be good alternatives to Stack Overflow for questions about software solutions to drive hardware? – Meta Stack Overflow”
Anyway, the graph in that post is just a sexy version of a query you can create yourself on the SEDE (Stack Exchange Data Explorer). That’s why I included both below.
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KotlinConf’23 video streams (including the keynote by Kevlin Henney which is generic to any programming language or concept)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/26
Some of the video URLs of #kotlinconf23 most via [Wayback/Archive] KotlinConf’23 – YouTube:
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Started making people walk me through their AI PRs in person. The 500-line diffs disappeared overnight : ExperiencedDevs
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/21
“Explain it to me like I’m five” works!
[Wayback/Archive] Started making people walk me through their AI PRs in person. The 500-line diffs disappeared overnight : ExperiencedDevs
Via [Wayback/Archive] Post by Frans Bouma (@fransbouma.com) — Bluesky: This is just brilliant.
--jeroen
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Some notes on the The Internet Archive command-line interface (CLI) and Python API tools
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/20
Few people realise that in addition to uploading through the Internet Archive web user interface at [Wayback/Archive] Upload to Internet Archive, you can also upload through the command-line.
Fewer people know using the CLI is more reliable, as the web UI often has trouble with recovery from upload interruptions (but it is better than the Wayback Machine archiver which seems to have no recovery options at all).
Jason Scott responded to a really rude comment of an uploader, but the Internet Archive does not really advocate the CLI uploader much. I added a comment, but doubt that has changed: it regrettably is an organisation that has a track record of being quite reluctant to publicly show improvement.
The whole thread is at [Wayback/Archive] Post by @textfiles.com — Bluesky: Regarding large-size uploads, especially over, let’s say, 750mb to the Internet Archive, I highly suggest the ia command-line client, which has a separate pathway not dealing with weird browser oddities and behavior.… and archived for posterity.
TL;DR
- you can batch upload to the base Internet Archive
- you cannot batch upload to the Wayback Machine of the internet archive
First, a list on how you can find the CLI tooling the normal way:
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A source for many batch-file tricks: ghidra/launch.bat at master · NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/20
If you want to improve your batchfile-fu, this might be your start: [Wayback/Archive] ghidra/launch.bat at master · NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
After a quick look, I already recognised these tricks:
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the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/19
15 minute important read: [Wayback/Archive] the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes
TL;DR: (not sugar coated; read the full post and their follow-ups on the why and how)
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You thought Windows drivers from 2006 were old, wait’ll you see the Intel drivers from 1968! – The Old New Thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/19
Or in other words: with this mechanism drivers can be a generic alternative to be installed when no more specific or newer driver is available.
Via [Wayback/Archive] ⚜ 8-bit Hero (aka Sven) ⚜ on Twitter: “Wow, Intel has been writing windows divers for a long time! Had no idea.”
Related
Intel Drivers dated 1970 shown by [Wayback/Archive] Kevlin Henney (@KevlinHenney) in his Keynote streamed at around the 1200 second mark: [Wayback/Archive] KotlinConf’23 – Effectenbeurszaal Day 2 – YouTube.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 