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YOURLS/YOURLS: 🔗 The de facto standard self hosted URL shortener in PHP
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/28
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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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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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GitHub – minvws/horsebattery: A password generator inspired by https://xkcd.com/936/
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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More database playground sites (similar to the dbfiddle and SQL Fiddle sites)
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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Some testla.com artifacts indicate it runs on PHP being deployed from a git repository
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:
- [Wayback/Archive] https://www.tesla.com/robots.txt
- wich is an adoption of [Wayback/Archive] robots.txt | Drupal 9.3.x | Drupal API
- [Wayback/Archive] https://www.tesla.com/MAINTAINERS.txt
- which is identical to the pre Drupal 7.x [Wayback/Archive] raw.githubusercontent.com/drupal/drupal/f5f4841dad3f0d99fe00cf6de004f5482c24757b/MAINTAINERS.txt (see below)
- [Wayback/Archive] https://www.tesla.com/modules/README.txt
- [Wayback/Archive] https://www.tesla.com/profiles/README.txt
- [Wayback/Archive] https://www.tesla.com/themes/README.txt
- [Archive] https://cdn-design.tesla.com/tds-fonts/: Error
Some do not exist (of which some any more):
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The Search Engine for Vintage Computers: FrogFind!
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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The WordPress feature that “beautifies” (malforms!) your Blog text is called `wptexturize`: on WordPress.com you cannot disable it.
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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GitHub Profile Roast 🔥🔥🔥
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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