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Archive for the ‘JavaScript/ECMAScript’ Category

Newer WordPress bookmarklets for navigating from a blog post to the classic editor, or getting the canonical url anchor of a blog post

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/08

Last year I posted about Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs.

It depended on HighlanderComments to exist in order for getting its .connectURL which contains the canonical blog post URL (i.e. from https://wiert.me it obtains https://wiert.wordpress.com).

Nowadays HighlanderComments does not always exist, but in that case <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="https://wiert.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd"> does exist.

Its’ href value can be obtained by querying document.querySelector('link[rel="EditURI"]').href and truncate it, so I made some conditional code that first tries the HighlanderComments and defers code obtaining it from the link element I mentioned above.

I also added proper Bookmarklet wrappers so the function results don’t leak to the console or Browser (Firefox really does not like Bookmarklets without this wrapper).

javascript:(function(){
//Statements returning a non-undefined type, e.g. assignments
})();

Firefox also dislikes pasting code into the development console.

Code:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/30

I love the new title-text for the 2018 “Clippy” picture at [Wayback/Archive] CrazyMyra: “After AI took his job as an online assistant, Mr Clippy was obliged to seek work in other sectors…” – beige.party

A metal toilet paper holder in a corner od a bathro,with an empty roll, that looks similar to a large paperclip

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Fun, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LifeHacker, LLM, Meme, Office, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

On my list of tools to try: zhot and tweetzhot (both by Rop Gongrijp and based on puppeteer) to create browser screenshots from the terminal

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17

The feature reminds me on how archive.today saves content.

Both the zhot and tweetzhot repositories are on my list of tools to try. They might make writing blog posts easier.

They are both based on [Wayback/Archive] puppeteer/puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node.js API

Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.

It demonstrates headless browser usage and can for instance:

  • Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages.
  • Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. “SSR” (Server-Side Rendering)).
  • Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc.
  • Create an up-to-date, automated testing environment. Run your tests directly in the latest version of Chrome using the latest JavaScript and browser features.
  • Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues.
  • Test Chrome Extensions.

Note any headless browser will have some trouble rendering single-page applications.

Repositories:

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Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Puppeteer, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

Important to defeat Twitter wrongly auto-guessing of URLs (and assuming anything with @ or # is a mention or hashtag) is Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space

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 in Bookmarklet, Classic editor, Development, Gutenberg editor, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Browsers, Web Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Should be easy to put in a Bookmarklet: Archive.is blog — What is the long version of the url please. …

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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Reminder to self: write a Bookmarklet that shortens YouTube URLs to the youtu.be ones

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 in Bookmarklet, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Converting html div tables to normal tables

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/12

Sometimes normal html tables are better suited than the more style friendly div tables, as they better suit the underlying data and are easier when you need column or row spans using the colspan and rowspan html attributes, explain semantics better, and … display as tables even without styling!

Converting from div tables to normal html tables is not as straightforward than from normal html tables to div tables.

So here are some links that helped me with both div tables and the conversion:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, jQuery, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Some notes on Fierit

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/30

Since I had only one read-only account and the Fierit ECD system won’t sent me update notifications on that account, I have collected some links before actually doing deeper investigation to see how to build a push notification system around it.

Link dump:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Code Visualisation through Python Tutor – Visualise Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/18

The final visualisation post of this week (themed Data Visualisation and Code Visualisation) is about [Wayback/Archive] Python Tutor – Visualize Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Ruby code execution.

Languages covered in these visualisers:

Earlier posts in the series:

–jeroen

Posted in C, C++, Development, Java, Java Platform, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Python, Ruby, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Duotrigordle – find 32 simultaneous Wordle solutions in 37 steps

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/09

I wish my language skills were better: [Wayback/Archive] Duotrigordle

Guess all 32 Duotrigordle words in 37 tries!


Based on

Source on GitHub: [Wayback/Archive] thesilican/duotrigordle: Play 32 wordles simultaneously (source in TypeScript and CSS)

–jeroen

Posted in .NET CF, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, TypeScript, Web Development | Leave a Comment »