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The Marvin the Paranoid Android 404-text

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27

Edit 20260614: finished a few loose ends.

A while ago, I mentioned a 404-text simulating the Marvin the Paranoid Android as a side-line on a PlantUML post.

While categorising my ASCII art posts, I came across it, and it was published before I started archiving blog links in the Wayback Machine and Archive.is as much as possible.

Back during categorising, I added a few of those archived links, then made a note to research deeper.

So later, I got to that digging and did some digital spelunking, restored the text from an archived page and the underlying JavaScript code that simulated the text being typed on a “terminal”.

Then I did some more spelunking to the oldest usage I could find.

Here are the results:

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Cory LaViska: “ooh you can create intent links for Bluesky” — Bluesky

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/20

A longer while I ago, I could not find a URL that would bring up the BKSY post pop-up.

A while ago, I found out there is a compose intent URL: you can even add a text parameter with URL-encoded content!

[Wayback/Archive] Cory LaViska: “ooh you can create intent links for Bluesky” — Bluesky

[Wayback/Archive] bafkreig4tmnf44akrfnqvuvinsj6pkg4zsosu5uivwpgqypkpgree247xq@jpeg (1000×425)

The below queries revealed various other posts indicating the same:

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Posted in Development, Encoding, HTML, Software Development, URL Encoding, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Best 404 page ever? : ProgrammerHumor

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/13

While doing some ASCII art blog-post drafts cleanup, I bumped into the (now deleted) [Wayback/Archive] Best 404 page ever? : r/ProgrammerHumor which pointed to the (also now deleted).

I got there via my (not deleted!) blog post Why I like PlantUML.

So I dug up the old archived copy of that PlantUML 404-page and made gist out of it.

I soon realised this was all encoded stuff, seemingly a mix of a ROT13 variation and some other shifting around.

Luckily the original page mentioned in the Reddit post was way easier, so I put that in a gist too.

Bot are below the blog-signature. Enjoy!

Oh, and the full text of course above the signature:

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Posted in ASCII, ASCII art / AsciiArt, CSS, Development, Encoding, Fun, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04

Google Docs alternative for self-hosting or hosted usage: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

The project started last month 12 years ago in 2014 as the “realtime collaborative visual editor with zero knowlege server” with the commit [Wayback/Archive] and so it begins · cryptpad/cryptpad@1508c7b · GitHub.

Via¹: [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz: “I’m currently testing Cryptpad for collaborative working.…” – chaos.social

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, CSS, Development, Google, GoogleDocs, HTML, HTML5, Infrastructure, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Monitoring, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, TypeScript, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Some ADS-B API link notes (hoping to be able to get from/to airport data from it)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/28

For my link archive initiated because I was trying to find out why ADS-B Exchange does not list originating and destination airports for flights, then on how to get at that data.

It is grouped in a few parts, starting with:

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, REST, Scripting, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

HSTS Preload List Submission

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/08

[Wayback/Archive] HSTS Preload List Submission

Sources:

Via

–jeroen

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Liquidated: ISOSTEEL Deutschland GmbH, Wiesbaden

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/02

Just found out about the liquidation of [Wayback/Archive] ISOSTEEL Deutschland GmbH, Wiesbaden.

Their availability of spare caps were the reason for getting their thermos flasks and caps in the first place. As a bonus, their flashs had a wide opening as well. Much wider than the 25+ year old HEMA thermos flasks I used before (one of which the cap had died, the other one lost its vacuum):

The Isosteel caps are slowly dying, which means I need to find an alternative brand that provides spare parts and has a large flask opening, and kept liquid hot for 24 hours or cold for 48 hours. Just see their prior products at [Wayback/Archive] “ISOSTEEL – Isoliergefäße aus Edelstahl”.

Liquidation:

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Jip van den Toorn | de Volkskrant – Vrijwilliger (1 oktober 2025)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01

In aanloop naar de verkiezingen:  [WaybackSave/Archive] Jip van den Toorn | de Volkskrant over een vrijwilliger:

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Anyone having experience with HttpMaster | Master HTTP Testing and Debugging?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/30

Is there anyone having experience with [Wayback/Archive] HttpMaster | Master HTTP Testing and Debugging?

Via [Wayback/Archive] HttpMaster (@http_master)

–jeroen

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Revisited: Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02

Quite a I while ago, I wrote Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA).

The bookmarklet has been very stable, but as of a week or so I need to press the Enter key for it to actually archive.

The reason is that Archive.is, also known as Archive Today, introduced a new URL parameter for auto-starting the archive of an URL.

The old one looked like this: https://archive.is/submit/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history

The new one like this: https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history&submitid=auT7eAltRDxCOGSjdoRMhu3H9d91VEFlvjVztfvNU8XO0ccAhji5DvTyqQew6rfm

The new submitid URL 40 character base64 parameter is being checked in the back end. One way of obtaining one by loading https://archive.is/ then wait for it’s completion and grab it from there.

The alternative is to wait for the submit page to fully load, then find the “save” button via its HTML <input type="submit" value="save"> and press it.

So that’s on the todo list for the updated Bookmarklet of the above blog post.

For now, I just have to press the Enter key for each archived page, I wonder how long that will last (:

Oh: to get the “do you want to save the page again” URL you will have to know the canonical URL first, as that ID is in the again URL, see the bold bits here:

  1. https://archive.is/c6d09
  2. https://archive.is/c6d09/again?url=https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/comment_history

--jeroen

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