Reminder from a while back: all your development tools are belong to us: [Wayback/Archive] Devs of VS Code extensions are leaking secrets en masse • The Register
--jeroen
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Devs of VS Code extensions are leaking secrets en masse • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/07
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AbortController is your friend
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/06
Cool post [Wayback/Archive] AbortController is your friend starting with
One of my favorite new features of JS is the humble
AbortController, and itsAbortSignal. It enables some new development patterns, which I’ll cover below, but first: the canonical demo.It’s to use
AbortControllerto provide afetch()you can abort early:
It then continues with a series of nice use cases.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Roderick Gadellaa on Twitter: “Late to the party here (was published in June last yr) but great read if you (like me) missed it”.
Video at [Wayback/Archive] AbortController is your friend – YouTube.
–jeroen
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A retro font: Glass TTY VT220
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/04
Via [Wayback/Archive] Der Kneisner M100 – oder das “once in a lifetime project” | Computermuseum Visselhövede, about an IMSAI 8080 clone, I bumped into the VT220 based Glass TTY VT220 font and found some links of it and it’s modifications which are listed below by category
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Some Twitter internals after I found GitHub – offish/twitter-broadcast-downloader: Download Twitter broadcasts/lives
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/30
Found this while trying to find the source from which I constructed this Bookmarklet which from a Tweet URL returns the JSON metadata which has all the links to media (like images and videos) as it failed for broadcasts:
javascript:{ tweetID = document.location.href.split('/').filter(e => e).slice(-1); url = new URL(`https://cdn.syndication.twimg.com/tweet-result?id=${tweetID}&token=!`); open(url); }
I could not find that back, but did find [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – offish/twitter-broadcast-downloader: Download Twitter broadcasts/lives via these query steps:
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Some pages that have lists of Amazon toplevel domains
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/16
Amazon has activities spread across many different countries and regions, heck they even own their own toplevel domain .amazon.
Yesterday in Online tools to test JSONPath Queries (plus a small list of Amazon top level domains) I wrote about the JSON parsing I did for Download your Kindle books soon, because Amazon will block them after February 25, 2025 .
The source of that list is [Wayback/Archive] Amazon operating domains by country. · GitHub [Wayback/Archive] in the file amazon-domains.json.
In the meantime, I finally managed to go through a list of old open browser tabs having more of such lists. Here they are:
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Online tools to test JSONPath Queries (plus a small list of Amazon top level domains)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/15
I wanted to parse some JSON being sent back during an XMLHttpRequest (what a wrongly named call is that!) of which I grabbed the content using the web development tools of my Chromium based browser.
Input
I got this list of amazon top level domain names from research I did for my blog post Download your Kindle books soon, because Amazon will block them after February 25, 2025 . The source is [Wayback/Archive] Amazon operating domains by country. · GitHub [Wayback/Archive] in the file amazon-domains.json:
{
"us": "https://www.amazon.com",
"uk": "https://www.amazon.co.uk",
"ca": "https://www.amazon.ca",
"de": "https://www.amazon.de",
"es": "https://www.amazon.es",
"fr": "https://www.amazon.fr",
"it": "https://www.amazon.it",
"jp": "https://www.amazon.co.jp",
"in": "https://www.amazon.in",
"cn": "https://www.amazon.cn",
"sg": "https://www.amazon.com.sg",
"mx": "https://www.amazon.com.mx",
"ae": "https://www.amazon.ae",
"br": "https://www.amazon.com.br",
"nl": "https://www.amazon.nl",
"au": "https://www.amazon.com.au",
"tr": "https://www.amazon.com.tr",
"sa": "https://www.amazon.sa",
"se": "https://www.amazon.se",
"pl": "https://www.amazon.pl"
}
The list is far from complete, so tomorrow I will post some more sources in Some pages that have lists of Amazon toplevel domains.
The queries and results show you that the original JSONPath (2007) and its RFC 9535 definition (2024, just 2 years ago) do not support getting the key names of the above list the ~ part in the first query below fails, and only the second query works.
This means that finding the right tooling is important.
Example
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Sweep the Strait: Minesweeper, but in the Straitt of Hormuz (plus some tests with RawGit alternatives)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/31
Forgot to schedule this one when I saw it two weeks ago: [Wayback/Archive] Sweep the Strait.
Apart from demonstrating that Trump never had a plan, does not and will not have a plan, it is cool to see Minesweeper developed in JavaScript, HTML and CSS mapped with some geodata onto a real map of the Strait of Hormuz.
Cool idea!
It has a function Windows 3.x UI with functional menu (Game -> New Game; Help -> How to Play)
At first, I thought the original developer is this:
- [Wayback/Archive] Minesweeper but it’s the Strait of Hormuz. Source: https://sweepthestrait.com
- [Wayback/Archive] Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) • Threads, Say more
German #geographer and #demographer in #Melbourne. I curate #maps and #data that explain how the #world works. Obviously all opinions are my own…
However, in fact the developer is:
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Some links on non-official Ring API libraries and tools
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/26
There is no official Ring API. But there are libraries and tools around that can talk to a Ring ecosystem, mostly written in JavaScript or Python.
Some links I found:
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Why octal is important (via @jpluimers on Twitter: “@b0rk @jilles_com Acids vs bases.”)
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/03
A few years back I tweeted [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@b0rk @jilles_com Acids vs bases.”
It was a kind of tongue-in-cheek reaction (with a way better picture below) to a very valuable post by b0rk (Julia Evans) on both Twitter and Mastodon [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “bases” / [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans: “bases title: bases # we usually…” – Mastodon for two reasons:
- There are various interpretations of bases
- Octal is very important to educate as errors introduced by its support are hard to spot even if you do know about octal.
Back to Julia’s post:
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Online HTML Stripper. Remove HTML and formatting from text
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/11
This was the easiest tool to remove HTML from select tags while keeping line breaks: [Wayback/Archive] Online HTML Stripper. Remove HTML and formatting from text.
Especially the client-side on-line tools I tried failed that option:
This just does not work at all for me: [Wayback/Archive] HTML Cleaner (cannot paste HTML text: needs to paste formatted text which does not work with select elements).
Could I have done this on a command-line? Of course, but I don’t need it often enough to warrant investigating and remembering how to do that in an efficient manner.
Queries:
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