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How could i get a permanent link for raw file? · community · Discussion #22537 · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/04

I used [Wayback/Archive] How could i get a permanent link for raw file? · community · Discussion #22537 · GitHub to go

The reason I needed it is that for quite a while now, GitHub has started to display PDF files as preview, and modified the download behaviour to get a blob: link instead of the actual raw file download location.

On the to do list:

  1. figure out the same for raw files in gists
  2. figure out the same for GitLab
  3. convert these into Bookmarklets (fiddle with the bold parts in the above URLs)

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Lotaristo (Czeslaw Meyer) and [Wayback/Archive] byrneh (Hugh Byrne)

--jeroen

Posted in Bookmarklet, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, gist, git, GitHub, GitLab, Hosting, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Source Code Management | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

camerahacks/rpilocator-rss-feed: rpilocator RSS Feed Notifications

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/04

On my list to experiment with is [Wayback/Archive] camerahacks/rpilocator-rss-feed:

This is the official rpilocator.com and hwlocator.com RSS feed reader and push notification scripts and Node-RED flows. The RSS feed is checked every minute and the script/flow sends a push notification when a product comes in stock.

Send ntfy, Pushbullet, Pushover or Gotify notifications to your device.

I only knew one of the above services, so here I have listed links to all of them:

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Posted in Development, Python, RSS, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Launch Settings Pages using ms-settings URL shortcuts » Winhelponline

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/03

This post from 2023 [Wayback/Archive] Launch Settings Pages using ms-settings URL shortcuts » Winhelponline

This list will tremendously help me quickly navigating directly to Windows settings pages.

In case the list is not complete, there are others lists – like [Wayback/Archive] Windows 11 ms-settings Commands (Settings URI Shortcuts) – which I found via the second query.

Maybe one day, I will merge the results of a few of those results. If so, a new blog post will follow.

Got the first via a late edit of my blog post gsudo (sudo for windows).

Queries:

--jeroen

Posted in CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »

Buddy (software) – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/03

Interesting: Buddy (software) – Wikipedia

Buddy (also known as Buddy.Works) is a web-based and self-hosted continuous integration and delivery software for Git developers that can be used to buildtest and deploy web sites and applications with code from GitHubBitbucket and GitLab. It employs Docker containers with pre-installed languages and frameworks for builds, alongside DevOps, monitoring and notification actions.

On my list of things to try in case built-in GitGub and GitLab functionality does not suffice my needs any more.

I wonder how well it runs on ARM architecture.

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Containers, Continuous Integration, Development, DevOps, Docker, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, GitLab, Infrastructure, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Is this the ultimate XKCD “Dependency” derivative?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29

xkcd modern digital infrastructure torn down by a satisfied looking cat

Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:

  • fiber outage of the Internet Archive
  • DoS of Cloudflare by itself
  • AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
  • Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
  • framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
  • many more¹

Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:

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Posted in *nix, Amazon.com/.de/.fr/.uk/..., AWS Amazon Web Services, C, CDN (Content Delivery Network), Cloud, Cloudflare, cURL, Development, Fun, Hardware, Infrastructure, ISP, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Network-and-equipment, Node.js, npm, Power User, Rust, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

The Marvin the Paranoid Android 404-text

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27

A while ago, I mentioned a 404-text simulating the Marvin the Paranoid Android as a side-line on a PlantUML post.

While categorising my ASCII art posts, I came across it, and it was published before I started archiving blog links in the Wayback Machine and Archive.is as much as possible.

Back during categorising, I added a few of those archived links, then made a note to research deeper.

So later, I got to that digging and did some digital spelunking, restored the text from an archived page and the underlying JavaScript code that simulated the text being typed on a “terminal”.

Then I did some more spelunking to the oldest usage I could find.

Here are the results:

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

EU Code Week on X: “🎨 Creative Corner: ASCII Art Challenge! 🎨 Let’s explore ASCII art! Use your coding skills to create a fun image using text characters. Share your masterpiece in the comments! Check out this guide to get started: Ready, set, create! #CreativeCoding”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/26

This was a nice idea, but apparently not reaching the target audience:

[Wayback/Archive] EU Code Week on X: “🎨 Creative Corner: ASCII Art Challenge! 🎨 Let’s explore ASCII art! Use your coding skills to create a fun image using text characters. Share your masterpiece in the comments! Check out this guide to get started: … Ready, set, create! #CreativeCoding”

It pointed to step 4 in this Raspberry Pi project challenge: [Wayback/Archive] About me: ASCII art – Python challenge

Image via [WaybackSave/ArchiveTweet JSON / [Wayback/Archive] GVfE-_EXAAAv4R6.jpg:orig (1080×1080)

--jeroen

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danmcquillan (@danmcquillan@kolektiva.social) on Twitter: “new blog post: ‘We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it'”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/26

Some 3 years after ChatGPT was introduced, I wonder if this still holds for current language and knowledge models:

[Wayback/Archive] We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.

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When compiler optimisations cause memcpy undefined behaviour: Fix a crash trying to save an empty AudioStream by hpvb · Pull Request #100422 · godotengine/godot · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/25

The libc C standard library memcpy function is very fast, but because of that also very dumb and with a list of circumstances where its behaviour is undefined (a great opportunity to introduce vulnerabilities in your code). The specs of those are in [Wayback/Archive] memcpy, memcpy_s – cppreference.com, including:

The behavior is undefined if either dest or src is an invalid or null pointer.

With C compilers becoming smarter and smarter, their optimisations can hide the fact that you call memcpy with parameters causing undefined behaviour.

This is a nice example of that: [Wayback/Archive] Fix a crash trying to save an empty AudioStream by hpvb · Pull Request #100422 · godotengine/godot · GitHub

The change is relatively simple, but hardly shows why the change is there. Only one line got changed in [Wayback/Archive] Fix a crash trying to save an empty AudioStream by hpvb · Pull Request #100422 · godotengine/godot · GitHub

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Online x86 and x64 Intel Instruction Assembler

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/25

[Wayback/Archive] Online x86 and x64 Intel Instruction Assembler

The source starts in these two files:

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