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Elle Cordova on Twitter: “Alexa, Siri and the other bots hanging out in the server break room again”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/23
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XPath based bookmarklets for Archive.is: more JavaScript fiddling!
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/20
As I promised a few months back in Bookmarklets for Archive.is and the WayBack Machine to go to the original page, moar JavaScript fiddling, this time with XPath based bookmarklets to navigate from Archive.is pages to Saved From, Redirected from, Via and Original pages.
An alternative would be using XPath as the additional fields are always structured in a table like the html below (taking complex pages like https://archive.ph/5iVVH and https://archive.ph/2015.11.14-044109/http://www.example.org/ as an example).
I got triggered to using XPath from this answer from [Wayback/Archive] gdyrrahitis at [Wayback/Archive] Javascript .querySelector find by innerTEXT – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] passwd for asking):
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Revision of some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs: WordPress ditched the undocumented HighlanderComments structure
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/15
As promised yesterday, I updated the scripts for Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs
Code (which broke at 20230914 because of WordPress.com changes: the undocumented
HighlanderCommentsstructure got removed; I will update the gist later on and post an updated blog post)
Instead of the undocumented HighlanderComments structure, I now use two (also undocumented) link rel elements.
In addition, I found this element that will be interesting in the future: <link rel='shortlink' href='https://wp.me/pvelJ-m8g' />.
You can view the change with the below archivals of the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.
And of course I learned a few things from these MDN entries:
- [Wayback/Archive]
<link>: The External Resource Link element – HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN - [Wayback/Archive] HTML attribute:
rel– HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN
The 20230530 archivals (Wayback/Archive) of wiert.me/2022/02/14/philosophy-of-management have this HighlanderComments structure:
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Some threadreaderapp URLs
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/14
For my link archive so I can better automate archiving Tweet threads using bookmarklets written in JavaScript:
- https://twitter.com/ThomasDamsko/status/1499996661535367169
- https://threadreaderapp.com/search?q=https://twitter.com/ThomasDamsko/status/1499996661535367169
HTTP-302 redirects to:
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499996661535367169.html
pressing refresh does a POST to:
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499996661535367169/refreshx
The base will likely be this:
javascript:void(open(`https://archive.is/?run=1&url=${encodeURIComponent(document.location)}`))
which for now I have modified into this:
javascript:void(open(`https://threadreaderapp.com/search?q=${document.location}`))
It works perfectly fine without URL encoding and demonstrates the JavaScript backtick feature for template literals for which you can find documentation at [WayBack/Archive] Template literals – JavaScript | MDN.
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Microsoft Store: update all apps from the command-line
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/12
TL;DR
I have converted the below PowerShell one-liner into this batch file (the ^| syntax is to ensure the pipe runs within PowerShell, not within the batch file):
PowerShell 'Get-CimInstance -Namespace "Root\cimv2\mdm\dmmap" -ClassName "MDM_EnterpriseModernAppManagement_AppManagement01" ^| Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName UpdateScanMethod'
The why and how
Since I am a CLI person, and some Windows applications are only available on the Microsoft Store, I wanted to be able to initiate an update cycle from the command-line interface.
So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] microsoft store update all apps from the command-line – Google Search and found these to be valuable:
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Seams I might in part be the cause of (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/11
Only having really learned to speak English starting in my late teens, I never got the “smarter than the average bear” reference, so I filed what I thought was a bug early 2019: [Wayback/Archive] “You must be smarter than the average bear…” after upgrading to 7zip.install v18.6 and notepadplusplus.install v7.6.2 · Issue #1700 · chocolatey/choco which last year got this useful comment
I had this for several packages now, since I am updating them daily.
I am assuming there is a way to remove versions, which leads to this error until there is a new update.
It was confirmed this summer from
I’m smarter than the average bear at least once or twice a month. I think it might be packages which are pulled back and you happen to have installed that version
The bug got referenced this summer from [Wayback/Archive] Remove warning message about “smarter than the average bear” · Issue #3186 · chocolatey/choco.
This in turn lead to [Wayback/Archive] (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco
That made me realise that for large groups of English speaking people “smarter than the average bear” would actually be a well known thing.
So I searched and learned a thing or two:
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Jan-Piet Mens :: A shell command to create JSON: jo
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/30
Stumbled across something that goes well with jq (the sed for JSON of which I wrote about before), [Wayback/Archive] Jan-Piet Mens :: A shell command to create JSON: jo:
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.NET/C#: Small command-line tool to query REST JSON results from a batch file.
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/29
Often the power is in the combinations of tools.
Read until the epilogue…
Prologue
In this case, I needed to be able to query the JSON results of calls to REST services from the command-line so I could process them in Batch files.
Since I could not find anything readily available, I originally Originally I opted for the PowerShell command-line scripting tool, as that ships with recent Windows versions and can re-use anything that .NET brings. But though [Wayback/Archive] .NET has built in JSON serialization support, there is [Wayback/Archive] no querying support in it.
Then I thought about Delphi, as it [Wayback/Archive] too has a built-in JSON parser, but even the well known [Wayback/Archive] JSON SuperObject library has no query support.
Back to .NET, which – like Delphi – has a well known and respected third party JSON library as well: [Wayback/Archive] NewtonSoft JSON aka JSON.net and that one [Wayback/Archive] does have support for querying JSON with the SelectToken function.
That’s the fundament of the rest of this article, with the potential to be used in a cross-platform as well.
So no need for a plan B.
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Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/24
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?” / Twitter
From the languages that I have been using most:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids Delphi having had virtual constructors since version 1. Wrote a blog post only years after it was introduced as too few developers (still!) realise the power of it: …” / Twitter
- [Wayback/Archive] Marco Wobben on Twitter: “@redrapids @jpluimers Perhaps not terribly unique, but definitely my favorite: Strong typing in Delphi/Pascal.” / Twitter
- [Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids C#: extension methods on interfaces. Without this, things like LINQ would have been impossible. ” / Twitter
- [Wayback/Archive] c# – Can extension methods be applied to interfaces? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Greg and [Wayback/Archive] Aaronaught):
Of course they can; most of Linq is built around interface extension methods.Interfaces were actually one of the driving forces for the development of extension methods; since they can’t implement any of their own functionality, extension methods are the easiest way of associating actual code with interface definitions.See the Enumerable class for a whole collection of extension methods built aroundIEnumerable<T>. To implement one, it’s the same as implementing one for a class
- [Wayback/Archive] c# – Can extension methods be applied to interfaces? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Greg and [Wayback/Archive] Aaronaught):
It was a kind of follow-up on his earlier tweet that also sparked nice responses at [Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What is a #programming technique or construct that other people like but you think is overused?” / Twitter.
In my respons I phrased my decades long pet peeve [Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids OOP: inheritance over composition. This leads to deep hierarchies that eventually nobody understands.” / Twitter.
Whereas with OOP (object-oriented programming) one should use composition over inheritance, often the reverse is true.
Actually my take can be generalised into two directions as these hierarchies:
- often crowd a single namespace, so: crowding namespaces is bad.
One does see this outside the Object Oriented realm a well.
JavaScript for instance takes the crowded global namespace one step further by many libraries taking
$q,$_or$x, which is part of my take[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids Mutation of global state followed by an overly crowded global namespace. Example on the JavaScript side: too many libraries and projects using the global `$` and `_` symbols.”.
- often have many levels of indirection, so: overdoing indirection is bad
One does see this outside the Object Oriented realm a well, just not as pronounced.
[Wayback/Archive] joao on Twitter: “@redrapids But to be more specific, I think sometimes there’s too much indirection with very deep class hierarchies. In the same vein those rules of “functions should have at most 6 arguments and 5/10/20 lines” can lead to a ton of indirection chasing the subfunctions being called”.
–jeroen
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Some notes on the WordPress Press-This bookmarklet
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/23
I want to improve my WordPress blogging experience especially since most of the pages I link also have two extra links of the archived pages in the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.
The WordPress Press-This bookmarklet does not always cut it. It is slow too as it does a POST request to the WordPress site which then renders a new page.
It is also highly minified, so below are some links that will hopefully allow me to research it further to see if I either could improve it for my own workflow, or need to start from scratch.
- I think the
window.pt_urlparameter is the URL-Encoding of the Press-This base URL (for my blog, it is"https:\/\/wiert.wordpress.com\/wp-admin\/press-this.php?v=8"in the JavaScript source of the bookmarklet, which – unencoded – is https://wiert.wordpress.com\/wp-admin\/press-this.php?v=8). - Potentially most recent versions in the WordPress core code:
- [Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/4.8/src/wp-admin/js/bookmarklet.js
- [Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/4.8/src/wp-admin/js/bookmarklet.min.js
- [Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/tree/4.9/src/wp-admin/js WordPress 4.9 removed it, but after backlash it got into a Press This plugin, see below
- Older SVN versions via [Wayback/Archive] “pt_url” “WordPress” – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] Changeset 31609 – WordPress Trac
- [Wayback/Archive] Changeset 31584 – WordPress Trac
- [Wayback/Archive] Changeset 31565 – WordPress Trac
- [Wayback/Archive] Changeset 31534 – WordPress Trac
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31609
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31609&order=name
- [Wayback/Archive] trunk/src/wp-admin/js/bookmarklet.js (log) – WordPress Trac: rev=31609
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31584
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31565
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31534
- Other GitHub versions
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/blob/add/cs/assets/bookmarklet.js
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/blob/add/cs/assets/bookmarklet.min.js
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/commit/0f7e59d8f10477b7e8399b1ab1c8906229b799d4
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/pull/29 – restore bookmarklet feature
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/pull/29/commits/bbe42d896937bbf199c7d3e7c1df8d1dde405260 (has restored
bookmarklet.jsandbookmarklet.min.js) - https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/pull/29/commits/557bf59f24be9a0c8f2e859f423b8c9fe009c40a (documentation including the version 4.9 remark I mentioned above)
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/blame/trunk/assets/bookmarklet.js – just one commit; need to figure out where the history is on core
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/issues/15 – restore bookmarklet issue
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/issues/17 – on the extraction process of Press-This from the WordPress Core into a separate plugin (that by default is included on WordPress.com blogs)
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/commits/trunk – main branch
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/commits/improve/bookmarklet – newer than main
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/blob/improve/bookmarklet/assets/bookmarklet.js (there is no
bookmarklet.min.js)
- Gists
- Documentation
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This (which documents the parameters)
-
Technical Note
Using this bookmarklet to publish posts does not pass the $_POST['post_type'] variable with the value of “post”.
The bookmark calls
http://example.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=&t=&s=&i=u= the url of the current paget= the title of the current pages= the text selection from the current pagei= url of an image file
-
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This (which documents the parameters)
- Git and GitHub related questions:
- My earlier blog posts:
I want to figure out:
- what the values of the
v=version parameter were (I know aboutv=8andv=4, there are likely more) - which commits were involved
- can I get more information (like summary, first heading or first paragraph of a page too)
- what techniques are used for opening new windows/tabs
TODO: make diffs of the various versions
–jeroen
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