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Open source StackOverflow/StackExchange like project codidact/qpixel: Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/10

Cool project for a community driven open source site (written mostly in Ruby): [Wayback/Archive] codidact/qpixel: Q&A-based community knowledge-sharing software

Rails-based version of our core software, powering codidact.com. Currently under active development towards MVP.

There are more related repositories under [Wayback/Archive] Codidact.

The project is explained at [Wayback/Archive] Codidact – Helping each other learn.

The many communities are at [Wayback/Archive] Codidact, including:

Via [Wayback/Archive] User Quasímodo – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.

–jeroen

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Duotrigordle – find 32 simultaneous Wordle solutions in 37 steps

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/09

I wish my language skills were better: [Wayback/Archive] Duotrigordle

Guess all 32 Duotrigordle words in 37 tries!

Based on

Source on GitHub: [Wayback/Archive] thesilican/duotrigordle: Play 32 wordles simultaneously (source in TypeScript and CSS)

–jeroen

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The W3C Markup Validation Service

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/03

A while ago I needed to validate some HTML on-line and found the W3C Markup Validation Service.

There are two versions of it that can take different parameters, so below are some permutations of the URLs.

But first why there are two versions, which is explained in W3C Markup Validation Service – Wikipedia

The Markup Validation Service is a validator by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that allows Internet users to check pre-HTML5 HTML and XHTML documents for well-formed markup against a document type definition. Markup validation is an important step towards ensuring the technical quality of web pages. However, it is not a complete measure of web standards conformance. Though W3C validation is important for browser compatibility and site usability, it has not been confirmed what effect it has on search engine optimization.

As HTML5 has removed the use of DTD in favor of a “Living Standard”, the traditional Markup Validation Service is not applicable to these formats. Validation is instead performed using an open-source “Nu Validator”, an instance of which is provided by W3C.

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FemFM – 〝50% vrouw in je oor, of we zappen door!〞

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/30

[Wayback/Archive] FemFM – 〝50% vrouw in je oor, of we zappen door!〞 werd in 2024 gelanceerd vlak voor de Women’s History Month en Internationale Vrouwendag door Felienne Hermans.

Felienne is bekend van bijvoorbeeld haar promotieonderzoek naar de impact van Excel op de samenleving, maar vooral van haar drive te onderzoeken hoe zo veel mogelijk mensen – ongeacht hun achtergrond – kunnen leren programmeren), Joy of Coding, de Hedy programmeertaal (met veel support voor andere alfabetten dan wat we in de westerse wereld gebruiken) en haar boek The Programmer’s Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition.

Ze is enorm goed in haar werk, en komt daarmee regelmatig in aanraking met vooringenomenheid over vrouwen. Daar verbaast ze zich terecht over, en ook dat het lastig om content (op allerlei soorten gebieden) te consumeren gemaakt door vrouwen. Dat overkwam haar bijvoorbeeld bij het luisteren naar muziek op de Nederlandse radio: daar kwamen veel meer mannelijke artiesten aan bod dan vrouwelijke.

Vandaar FemFM, en Felienne zou Felienne niet zijn als de source code niet openbaar was, dus hier wat linkjes:

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Posted in Audio, Awareness, Development, IceCast, Inclusion / inclusive society, Java, Java Platform, Media, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Skip line while debugging in Chrome developer tools – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/27

[Wayback/Archive] Skip line while debugging in Chrome developer tools – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Matas Vaitkevicius for both asking and answering):

Last comment from dev says:
We’re going to hold off on this feature for now. It’s complexity is high and it’s not common enough a workflow. One could also just comment out the lines and hit ctrl-s to get the same effect, pretty much. Status: WontFix –
The workaround is to comment out the line you want to skip and press Ctrl+S.

The problem is that the workaround fails when you have used the Chrome Dev Tools to format the source code: then you cannot edit the formatted code.

The workaround for that is cumbersome, but doable as in this bug report:

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Publish your results through “wa11y.co: Wordle Accessibility” to allow visual impaired much easier and pleasant access to your results #a11y

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/19

I wish Wordle would be more accessible, but alas after all this time it still isn’t.

Luckily there is [Wayback/Archive] wa11y.co: Wordle Accessibility

At the end of your Wordle game, click “Share” to copy your result then paste it below to generate descriptive text.

It is open source on GitHub at [Wayback/Archive] cariad/wa11y.co: Makes Wordle results accessible. (most of it is written in JavaScript)

I first bumped into it via:

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For my link archive: responses to Iris Classon asking for “least privacy invading way to track some metrics regarding traffic to my website?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/12

This sparked some great responses [Wayback/Archive] Iris Classon on Twitter: “What’s the least privacy invading way to track some metrics regarding traffic to my website? Basic stuff, not length of stay, color of underwear or body count.”, for instance:

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firebug – Google Developer Tools “Network” Tab clears after redirect – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/29

With the ever changing Google Developer UI it is sometimes hard to track where things moved or what functionality is available.

I needed the “Network” tab to preserve the connections even after a redirect and this is indeed possible as per [Wayback/Archive] firebug – Google Developer Tools “Network” Tab clears after redirect – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Rodrigo Graça for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Snuffleupagus for answering):

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Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/20

Great for converting tab separated data (for instance when copied from Excel) into HTML:

[Wayback/Archive] Convert TSV to HTML Table Online | WTOOLS

–jeroen

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Web-Design user experience: if you replace actual characters with images or empty styled items you will exclude screen-readers and make visually impaired unhappy (and others too)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/15

So I was on a medical site trying to copy my prescriptions trying to copy them:

Before copying After copying
Image Image

In this case, the element that failed to copy was this:

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