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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/22
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – minvws/horsebattery: A password generator inspired by https://xkcd.com/936/
Inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] xkcd: Password Strength
Curated Dutch word list: [Wayback/Archive] horsebattery/config/nl/word-list.txt at main · minvws/horsebattery · GitHub
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Discord
--jeroen
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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 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 by jpluimers on 2025/02/12
[Wayback/Archive] FrogFind! (archived as “Server Error”, but working fine on my end) and [Wayback/Archive] FrogFind!
FrogFind!
The Search Engine for Vintage Computers
Leap to:
Built by Action Retro on YouTube | Logo by Mac84 | Why build such a thing?Powered by DuckDuckGov1.2
More information at [Wayback/Archive] About FrogFind!
Based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fivefilters/readability.php: PHP port of Mozilla’s Readability.js and DuckDuckGo.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03
Over the years, WordPress started to beautify more and more text thereby malforming many (read thousands) of my older blog posts.
An example is this:
--jeroen
is now rendered as
–jeroen
The two hypen-minus signs or -- have become a en-dash or –, not even an em-dash or — that is is double the width of an en-dash.
So after figuring out the cause, I asked if one could change it for a WordPress.com blog backed by a premium account: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Hi @wordpressdotcom, how do I globally disable wptexturize for a paid wiert.wordpress.com blog (it has Premium subscription)? Over the years, it has malformed more and more of my text which I don’t want (as it is way too much work to re-visit thousands of blog posts).”
Unbelievably, the answer is no!
So WordPress.com mandatorily changes the display of all your old Premium blog posts and the only solution they offer is to upgrade for another USD ~17 per month to disable it.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/19
Who needs AI (:
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥
Sourcecode at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – codenoid/github-roast: Spicy GitHub Roast 🔥
Via [Wayback/Archive] Dennis Schubert: “okay, I finally found a good u…” – Mastodon
okay, I finally found a good use for an LLM. no, really.
github-roast.pages.dev
this thing is brutal
In addition, I learned about [Wayback/Archive] lokal.so · GitHub: Supercharged HTTP/TCP/UDP Tunneling Software
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/07
At the time of writing a lot of this might be more recent, but for quite some time codepoints.net had not been updated with code point information newer Unicode releases.
Basically it was stuck at Unicode version 8.0 with some 120k glyphs. At the time of writing Unicode version 15.0 is in beta and the difference between 15.0 and 8.0 is some 24k glyphs.
So I had a quick twitter chat with the author and jotted down the links in this blog post so I won’t forget them.
There I learned it was open source (I think it is the only Unicode codepoint site that is).
Here it goes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/19
After publishing Free Linux cloud shell for Gmail users – shell in the browser that works in all locations I’ve been so far, the Google Cloud Shell got extended quite a bit.
There is now [Wayback/Archive] Safe Mode (which skips initialisation scripts):
If there’s a problem in your
.bashrcor.tmux.conffiles, Cloud Shell immediately close after connection. To resolve this, open Cloud Shell in safe mode by appendingcloudshellsafemode=trueto the URL. This restarts your Cloud Shell instance and logs you in as root, allowing you to fix any issues in the files.To permanently delete all files in your home directory and restore your Cloud Shell home directory to a clean state, you can reset your Cloud Shell VM.
And there is support for way more [Wayback/Archive] tools and languages:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/10/06
An interesting thread by Kristian Köhntopp last year:
[Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Python: >>> print(1+2+” = “+2+1) Traceback (most recent call last): File “”, line 1, in TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: ‘int’ and ‘str’ Java: System.out.println(1+2+” = “+1+2); 3=12”
The examples from him and others in the thread:
Python: >>> print(1+2+" = "+2+1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str' Java: System.out.println(1+2+" = "+1+2); 3=12 php8.1 -r 'print 1+2+" = "+2+1;' PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Unsupported operand types: int + string in Command line code:1 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in Command line code on line 1 php7.3 -r 'print 1+2+" = "+2+1;' PHP Warning: A non-numeric value encountered in Command line code on line 1 Node? Chrome & FF dev console: window.alert(1+2+" = "+1+2) 3 = 12 Sind ja immerhin verschiedene Sprachen. SELECT Wert1 FROM table1 WHERE Wert1 < AVG(Wert1); DB2 vs. Oracle vs. MSSQL vs. ....
The joke is that Python actually does better than Java.
But in practice, this is a problem on many platforms, so it deserves constant attention, that’s why Kristian pointed to [Archive] Anna “Legacy Archaeologist” Filina on Twitter: “My annotated slides “Fantastic Bugs and How to Avoid Them” from @LonghornPHP: #LonghornPHP”
[Wayback/Archive] Fantastic Bugs and How to Avoid Them – Speaker Deck
I’ve expanded the examples from the thread below. The results are interesting and consistent over versions of the various languages.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/03
There is a Harman Kardon Remote app on [Wayback/Archive.is] Android and [Wayback/Archive.is] iOS.
It can control Harman Kardon AVR and BDS devices, and the communication appears to be simple XML over HTTP according to [Wayback/Archive.is] H/K AVR 151 Remote Control API – Adam Parsons.
It got reverse engineered into two libraries, both based on string concatenating XML HTTP requests:
Note:
I just tested it with a unit test and it work on my JBL AVR101 (same API as the Harman/Kardon)
sleep command and eventually can perform a full shutdown, see the comments at [Wayback/Archive.is] Add list of known devices · KarimGeiger/HKAPI@6036d4f.–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 