Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/25
Via the below BSKY post (some call these skeets), I learned about the CSS feature “font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums” which switches on the OpenType tnum feature of fonts that support it.
More and more supports these tabular numerics, which makes all digits equally wide making both numbers in tables and lists as well as quickly changing numbers like sub-second timers a lot easier to read.
style
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/20
I knew open source meme generators would exist, but I never searched for them before. Here is a small table with generator and repository columns:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/13
Some notes because of Some links on the Archive Today controversy and steps I need to take on this blog: some more notes and links to automate archival into the Ghostarchive:
Related:
[Wayback/Archive] gist:9a02bc50e75e7239f6f0c8f04fe4cfb1 · GitHub – Python script to archive a web page in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, Archive Today, Ghost Archive; requires Python, ChromeDriver and Chrome or Chromium
My earlier blog posts mentioning Ghostarchive:
Via: [Wayback/Wayback] Ghostarchive does a decent job for the same sites in my experience: https://ghos… | Hacker News
Query: [Wayback/Archive] automate ghostarchive at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/16
I hardly do web development, so every once in a while I encounter something that I forgot about.
In this case it was embedding images with base64 encoding in the HTML of a web page.
The GitHub unicorn page reminded me of that, so I saved it in a gist and a JSFiddle:
You can view the rendered HTML here:
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “First time I got the GitHub unicorn.…” – Mastodon
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/14
Interesting, as this seems to handle all actions client-side: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – breakzplatform/downloader.notx.blue
Hosting is at two sites:
The code is a tiny HTML wrapper around about 1000 lines of JavaScript (plus a few hundred lines of minified [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm: FFmpeg for browser, powered by WebAssembly JavaScript code). Impressive!
Via [Wayback/Archive] notx.blue – Projetos do Joselito para o Bluesky
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/03
[Wayback/Archive] Show HN: Live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme | Hacker News
As a fun evening project, I made a live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme (based on a panel from The Adventures of Tintin comics [1]).
There’s a page for every timeframe:
- ‘What a day’: https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/day
- ‘What a week’: https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/week
- ‘What a month’: https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/month
- ‘What a year’: https://tintin.dlazaro.ca/year
Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP (not logged or stored). No JavaScript is sent to the browser.
[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh
It was easy to edit the HTML to change the message and CSS for the text dimensions, see the image on the right.
MacOS users will likely recognise the font as it is the Marker Felt font which is included by default on MacOS.
And it would be cool to alter the speech bubbles to be more like the ones Hergé used, see this comment:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/28
Every now and then, documentation in source code requires an ASCII table. Sometimes table cells are spanning multiple rows or/and column.
TL;DR: The tools I tried did not support that, so manual labour is still needed.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/28
[Wayback/Archive] 13 Things No One Tells You About 3D Printing as a Beginner – YouTube only had a numbered index, so I commented the context index:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/31
Forgot to schedule this one when I saw it two weeks ago: [Wayback/Archive] Sweep the Strait.
Apart from demonstrating that Trump never had a plan, does not and will not have a plan, it is cool to see Minesweeper developed in JavaScript, HTML and CSS mapped with some geodata onto a real map of the Strait of Hormuz.
Cool idea!
It has a function Windows 3.x UI with functional menu (Game -> New Game; Help -> How to Play)
At first, I thought the original developer is this:
German #geographer and #demographer in #Melbourne. I curate #maps and #data that explain how the #world works. Obviously all opinions are my own…
However, in fact the developer is:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/03
For Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume I needed to copy back and forth some XML code back and forth between my ARM MacBook Pro to a remote Windows machine accessing via the Microsoft Windows App (the app formerly known as Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac).
The problem with that is the copying would lose line breaks, which for XML meaning is no problem, but for human understandability while editing the XML in the Event View query dialog was.
So I decided to go to the “Code” view in my Classic WordPress editor (did I ever tell you much I dislike – especially the accessibility of – the not so new but still haughty named Gutenberg editor?), copied the HTML encoded form and wanted to convert it to unencoded XML text.
Well, here I got to naming confusion land, on which I will talk further below, but first two of the potential solutions:
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