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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/05
This archive seems to have very recent HTML5 renderings of many man pages from their troff or mdoc sources: [Wayback/Archive] Man Pages | ManKier.
I bumped into it via [Archive/Archive] ipmitool: utility for controlling IPMI-enabled devices | ipmitool Commands | Man Pages | ManKier when writing Some links on Dell R730xd fan noise.
The site is not only very up-to-date on rendered man pages, but the rendering has great features too. Read more on those at [Wayback/Archive] About | ManKier.
A nice history on how ManKier came to be is at [Wayback/Archive] Blog – ManKier. It’s less than a dozen posts, and recommended reading.
Oh, I almost forget: I have added the man search shortcut to my browsers; these two examples should get you going by adding www.mankier.com/?q=%s as a search template:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/15
Since Elon is trying to burn some USD 44 billion as rapidly as possible, many on-line communities that grew big on Twitter are now trying to re-establish themselves on other social network services.
One of them is Mastodon, the Fediverse based federated or distributed social network.
Like Twitter (or maybe “unlike Twitter”, because of the tremendous API charges for Twitter bots) Mastodon bots can be of tremendous help on spreading awareness of a community.
One example is [Wayback/Archive] bitbonk/DotNetSocialBot: A Mastodon bot that can boost a community running at [Wayback/Archive] .NET Bot :dotnet: (@bot@dotnet.social) which helps boosting the .NET community on Mastodon (quite a few harrdore .NET developers have an account on [Wayback/Archive] dotnet.social, but you can follow the bot from any Mastodon server: the virtue of a distributed social network).
It is written in quite a generic way, and founded on a solid framework, which means it is easy to extend to other communities. Heck, it might be even be easy to generalise it into a highly configurable universal community bot!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/03
I really like non-descriptive product names. In this case it is Wombat from which its name it is hard to deduct what it does. In this case it’s Wombat from [Wayback Webrecorder (digipres.club/@webrecorder) (@webrecorder_io) / Twitter which is used by the Wayback Machine given the error messages displayed in for instance the Chrome Developer tools when displaying an archived page.
In fact, it is the key library when you look at the repository description [Wayback/Archive] webrecorder/wombat: Wombat.js client-side rewriting library.
When looking at all the [Wayback/Archive] Webrecorder repositories of the [Wayback/Archive] Webrecorder organisation, luckily only a few of them have a non-descriptive name. Too bad Wombat is one of them.
In order to function, Wombat replaces many methods that pages can use to navigate. It does that in a way that is virtually impossible to work around and this bit me a while ago when writing a Bookmarklet that would navigate out of an archived Wayback Machine and would navigate to the wrong URL:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/20
To ease my blogging, I wrote two more Bookmarklets that help me navigate to or save from a Wayback machine archived page to Archive Today.
A key thing I learned over the past 2+ decades is that “the cloud” (i.e. cloud computing) is “just someone else’s computer” which tends to be unavailable right when you need it no matter the applicable service-level agreement.
Which means that a long while ago, I switched to archiving external links to both the Wayback machine and Archive Today.
Since the Wayback machine is my primary, it helps to have Bookmarklets to go from such an archived page to the equivalent one on Archive Today, or even save it if it isn’t there.
So I made two more Bookmarklets which I will illustrate using the example.org based links https://example.org and http://example.org:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06
[Wayback/Archive] memory spy
It is universal for most other programming languages too as explained in [Wayback/Archive] New playground: memory spy
why is it useful to look at C?
You might be wondering – I don’t write C! Why should I care how C programs represent variables in memory?
In this playground I’m mostly interested in showing people how integers and floats are represented. And low-level languages generally all represent integers and floats in the same way – a 32-bit unsigned int is going to be the same in C, C++, Rust, Go, Swift, etc. The exact name of the type is different, but the representation is the same.
In higher-level languages like Python it’s a little different, but under the hood a float in Python contains a C double, so the C representation is still pretty relevant.
Via
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/30
Ever since introduction of the IfThen functions introduced in Delphi Delphi 2007 in both the Math and StrUtils units (see WayBack radstudio2007 HUpdate4 EN delphivclwin32.pdf ¹), I have been telling people that these do not perform lazy evaluation of the then and else parts which the if/then/else statement provides.
The newly introduced if/then/else ternary conditional operator in Delphi 13 ² (of which I am not a fan, not even of the generic workaround³) – despite the unlucky number – luckily also provides lazy evaluation of the then and else parts.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/22
Some are surprised but because of MS-DOS 2.x compatibility:
`c:tmp.txt` is a valid file path on Windows
Since each drive letter remembers the current directory and that memory bit is not thread-local nor process-local, so relying on it is bad practice.
The above is a quote from [Wayback/Archive] Oleksii Holub 🇺🇦 on Twitter: “So I was trying to understand the difference between <code>Path.IsPathRooted(...)</code> and <code>Path.IsPathFullyQualified(...)</code> and learned that apparently <code>c:tmp.txt</code> is a valid file path on Windows 🤯” which has an image without alt-text on a long bit of Microsoft documentation which I will further quote below.
Many people don’t know this, so here is a list of variations on relative paths:
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