Archive for the ‘Scripting’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/09
I wasn’t aware that [Wayback/Archive] [OpenWrt Wiki] MikroTik was available. Many devices are incomplete in support, but it is good to know there is an alternative to the buggy scripting interface of RouterOS.
For the hEX series, support seems good enough to give it a try this summer, but I need to figure out of the hEX PoE RB960PGS is supported. I have good hopes as other models of the RB9* series are.
A few warnings from the below links:
- First Things First: Don’t Lose Your RouterOS License
- OpenWrt is not compatible with the bootloader of RouterOS v7. Do NOT upgrade the firmware on your device to RouterOS v7 or, if you did, downgrade to RouterOS Firmware v6 before installing OpenWrt. RouterOS doesn’t allow to downgrade below factory firmware version, but OpenWrt boots and works fine with versions up to 6.49.10 or beyond. Confirmed working: 6.47.10 (tested on SXTsq 5 ac), 6.49.10 (tested on SXTsq 2nD).
- If the installation fails, you might need to upgrade/downgrade to RouterOS 6.49.2
- Warning: Don’t upgrade RouterOS packages & bootloader to 7.2.1 otherwise ‘sysupgrade image’ install will fail!
- If latested release of RouterOS does not work, try an older version. 6.45 is reportet to work as a first debrick, you can upgrade later with the Winbox Software to latest release
These hEX related models are supported on the web-site (which also explains major differences with Fast Ethernet (100 Mbit/s) and Gigabit Ethernet (1 Gbit/s) models:
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Posted in Development, Hardware, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/03
Almost 3 years ago, I wrote about some database/SQL fiddle sites in Database fiddle sites (which covers [Wayback/Archive] two different [Wayback/Archive] dbfiddle sites and the [Wayback/Archive] SQL Fiddle site).
In the meantime, I figured out that [Wayback/Archive] Toolbox for Developers has a few fiddle pages and database/SQL tools online (in their order, which is not alphabetical):
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Posted in Database Development, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, PHP, PostgreSQL, Scripting, Software Development, SQL Server, SQLite, TypeScript | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/01
Since this question keeps popping up around me every now and then, despite JSON being around for like 25 years now, this statement from the original designer Douglas Crockford:
[Wayback/Archive] Douglas Crockford – Google+ – Comments in JSON …
I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives, a practice which would have destroyed interoperability. I know that the lack of comments makes some people sad, but it shouldn’t.
Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.
Yup, Google+ has been dead for more than 6 years now, so it is important to quote these insights for posterity to find them back.
Related:
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Can comments be used in JSON? – Stack Overflow with several answers mentioning the above G+ post.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] json comment – Google Search
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26
Need to look into this further: [Wayback/Archive] Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust.
Likely running it on my blog requires JavaScript to be enabled which means going from the premium to the small business plan (at te time of writing from USD 8 to USD 25 per month: a 200+% increase).
Let’s first start with an example:
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Posted in archive.is / archive.today, CSS, Development, Internet, InternetArchive, JavaScript/ECMAScript, link rot, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, WayBack machine | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/25
The manual process of getting back to the earliest commit of a GitHub repository is easy for small repositories, but for a large one it is very tedious.
TL;DR: there are various ways, but the easiest was the INIT Bookmarklet below.
Note: 2 weeks before the scheduled post made it to the front of the queue, I got a report¹ that it started to fail. Here it still works.
It’s hard to debug because of the functional programming approach taken.
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Posted in Bookmarklet, C, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, git, GitHub, Go (golang), JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Source Code Management, Web Browsers | Tagged: 1, 18, 7 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/24
A few years back, a few interesting files turned up that are directly served from the testla.com web-site right in the middle when Musk used their software engineers to asses twitter.com code quality:
Some do not exist (of which some any more):
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Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, PHP, Scripting, Software Development, Source Code Management, Web Development | Tagged: 3088938 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/19
Many web-sites and password managers have a strength indicator built-in.
This is a really good example (with open source JavaScript code!) of one: [Wayback/Archive] zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation | USENIX
Be aware though that it stores a plain text file named passwords.txt on your system (this seems to confuse some users, especially when their password is in it).
Homans password behaviour does not change much over time, so this half hour 2016 presentation on it is still current: [Wayback/Archive] USENIX Security ’16 – zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation – YouTube for which you can download:
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Posted in Chrome, Development, Edge, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Safari, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | 2 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 