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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/15
As promised yesterday, I updated the scripts for Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs
Code (which broke at 20230914 because of WordPress.com changes: the undocumented HighlanderComments structure got removed; I will update the gist later on and post an updated blog post)
Instead of the undocumented HighlanderComments structure, I now use two (also undocumented) link rel elements.
In addition, I found this element that will be interesting in the future: <link rel='shortlink' href='https://wp.me/pvelJ-m8g' />.
You can view the change with the below archivals of the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.
And of course I learned a few things from these MDN entries:
The 20230530 archivals (Wayback/Archive) of wiert.me/2022/02/14/philosophy-of-management have this HighlanderComments structure:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/29
Often the power is in the combinations of tools.
Read until the epilogue…
Prologue
In this case, I needed to be able to query the JSON results of calls to REST services from the command-line so I could process them in Batch files.
Since I could not find anything readily available, I originally Originally I opted for the PowerShell command-line scripting tool, as that ships with recent Windows versions and can re-use anything that .NET brings. But though [Wayback/Archive] .NET has built in JSON serialization support, there is [Wayback/Archive] no querying support in it.
Then I thought about Delphi, as it [Wayback/Archive] too has a built-in JSON parser, but even the well known [Wayback/Archive] JSON SuperObject library has no query support.
Back to .NET, which – like Delphi – has a well known and respected third party JSON library as well: [Wayback/Archive] NewtonSoft JSON aka JSON.net and that one [Wayback/Archive] does have support for querying JSON with the SelectToken function.
That’s the fundament of the rest of this article, with the potential to be used in a cross-platform as well.
So no need for a plan B.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/24
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?” / Twitter
From the languages that I have been using most:
It was a kind of follow-up on his earlier tweet that also sparked nice responses at [Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What is a #programming technique or construct that other people like but you think is overused?” / Twitter.
In my respons I phrased my decades long pet peeve [Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids OOP: inheritance over composition. This leads to deep hierarchies that eventually nobody understands.” / Twitter.
Whereas with OOP (object-oriented programming) one should use composition over inheritance, often the reverse is true.
Actually my take can be generalised into two directions as these hierarchies:
- often crowd a single namespace, so: crowding namespaces is bad.
One does see this outside the Object Oriented realm a well.
- often have many levels of indirection, so: overdoing indirection is bad
One does see this outside the Object Oriented realm a well, just not as pronounced.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/01
[Archive.is] Exact Instructions Challenge – THIS is why my kids hate me. | Josh Darnit – YouTube
We asked the kids to write instructions for a simple task but left out that we were going to be following their instructions EXACTLY as written. Great lesson for communication and a fun practice in patience!
Via [Archive] Maarten van Smeden on Twitter: “This is why programming is an acquired skill ” / Twitter
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It spurred all kinds of reactions about software development, like that programming should read like poetry, software development is about slowing down your thoughts, and that some high schools and some universities do this experiment at the start of their software development curriculum.
This is a cool experiment to do, even outside the USA, as many countries or regions have their own sandwich style, some of which are way harder to make than PB&J (:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/02/15
Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant:
A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET.
Since then the world has changed, and a lot more libraries have become available.
As I mainly use .NET and Delphi and there is a reasonable chance I need to do some more state machine work, here are some links about State Machines in both environments.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/13
I have had the below Archive.is spinner “Loading” without any progress indication on a couple of URLs the last few months and I think they are tied to having special characters in the URL-to-be-archived.
My usual workaround was to first archive in the Wayback Machine, then archive the resulting URL in Archive.is as it would automatically follow the path up to the original URL,
That of course failed when https://web.archive.org/web/*/vx-underground.org did not want to save in Archive.is: either these would give an eternal spinner on the “Loading” page no matter the browser you were using either the escaped %2A or *:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/12
[Wayback/Archive] SQLZOO has an extensive set of interactive tutorials spread over these topics:
- basic SQL tutorials gradually getting more difficult (including some Covid-19 materials)
- SQL “how to” style questions
- More involved examples from easy via medium to hard
- A White Christmas challenge
So the above is kind of a continuation of my series of games to learn software and database development PostgreSQL Exercises.
I found it via the first reaction to [Archive] Steve Polito on Twitter: “If you’re like me and want to level up your SQL game, give PostgreSQL Exercises a try. …” / Twitter (which initiated yesterday’s post):
[Archive] Loumarven Payot on Twitter: “@stevepolitodsgn I’ve also tried sqlzoo.net. Almost done with it. Next on my list are dataschool.com and selectstarsql.com” / Twitter
Which means I’ve more sites to try.
These will be the next: [Wayback/Archive] Learn SQL: Interactive SQL Book, from dataschool and [Wayback/Archive] Select Star SQL (which is an interactive book that I should be able to finish in a day full of reading and experimenting).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/10
A while ago I wrote about Setting up a GitHub project so it is served over https as a github.io and a custom subdomain.
Doing the full “host on your custom domain” route was a big tougher than I hoped for, so I totally forgot how easy it is to convert an existing HTML or markdown documentation repository to use GitHub pages without a custom domain.
I needed it for the Delphi version of the DeadLockEmpire (see links below, originally it was an interactive tutorial game focusing on the C# language and .NET runtime), as I am trying to get as much as my stuff published and hosted in a manner that will outlive me (I still have a pretty high chance of the rectum cancer metastases returning).
Enabling GitHub Pages on your repository is almost as easy as hosting a page through raw.githack.com (where I already hosted raw.githack.com/jpluimers/deadlockempire.github.io/feature/Delphi-language-and-Delphi-RTL/index.html as raw.githack.com/jpluimers/deadlockempire.github.io/feature/Delphi-language-and-Delphi-RTL/index.html and rawcdn.githack.com/jpluimers/deadlockempire.github.io/feature/Delphi-language-and-Delphi-RTL/index.html).
This is how easy it was to get it hosted as [Wayback/Archive] jpluimers.github.io/deadlockempire.github.io:
- In my [Wayback/Archive] jpluimers/deadlockempire.github.io: The Deadlock Empire: Slay dragons, learn concurrency! repository, go to the Settings tab, then click on Pages:
DeadLockEmpire Settings tab, Pages configuration None.
Here you see “None” as value for the branch to be published as GitHub Pages.
- Here I have chosen the Branch “feature/Delphi-language-and-Delphi-RTL” to be published, and am about to press “Save” (full screenshot below):
DeadLockEmpire Pages selecting the correct branch
- After pressing “Save“, the site gets published (it takes about a minute for that to complete) at [Wayback/Archive] jpluimers.github.io/deadlockempire.github.io:
DeadLockEmpire Pages the correct branch has been saved which will automagically publish it.
That was it. No more steps.
Each new commit in the selected branch will auto-publish as well.
Related DeadLockEmpire posts
- 2016 – If you thought you could do multi-threading, then play “The Deadlock Empire” games.
- 2017 – ThreadBarrier/ThreadBarrier.pas at master · lordcrc/ThreadBarrier
- 2020 – Davidlohr Bueso on Twitter: A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, “I know, I’ll solve it with threads!”. has Now problems. two he
- [WayBack] One second code: Do YOU know how much your computer can do in a second? is a quiz version of the [WayBack] Numbers Every Programmer Should Know By Year. [WayBack] About this game revealed…Source: One second code: Do YOU know how much your computer can do in a second? « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/04
Another remote conference I missed while recovering from rectum cancer treatment, but luckily the playbacks are on YouTube and some slide decks are at Google Drive.
Via: [Archive] Uri Shaked on Twitter: “My talk on @hackaday Remoticon starting now Reverse Engineering the ESP32 WiFi Live stream: … “ / [Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Dang. I copied that one out of the description. All the timestamps there are corrupted as YouTube measures them in minutes:seconds but @hackaday posted them as hours:minutes (which are off by minutes anyway) starting at 01:56:30. This is the correct one: … “
Links:
- Web site at [Wayback/Archive] 2021 Hackaday Remoticon
- Videos at [Wayback/Archive] HACKADAY – YouTube:
- Day 1: [Wayback/Archive] 2021 Hackaday Remoticon: Friday – YouTube
Approximate hour:minute time stamps as published for Friday
They are usually at least minutes off; substract 11:00 to get the rough hour:minute index into the video, then scroll from there.
- 11:00 Opening Remarks
- 11:10 Keynote – Elecia White: Map Files and Other Buried Treasures
- 12:10 Maurits Fennis: Hack for the Planet: Reverse Engineering Embedded Systems to Reduce E-Waste
- 13:00 Matt Venn: Open Source ASICs – A Year in Perspective
- 13:35 Hal Rodriguez and Sahrye Cohen: Conductive Melody: a Tech Couture Instrument
- 14:10 Jay Bowles: A Dip Into The Plasmaverse
- 15:00 Voja Antonic: Become a Hardware Expert in 40 Minutes
- 15:50 Sergiy Nesterenko: Don’t Flip My Bits: Electronics in Spaaaace
- 16:25 Jeroen Domburg: Rickrolling Buddha: A Deep Dive in Reverse Engineering and Thoroughly Pwning an Unknown Chip
- 17:15 Lewin Day: Hacker Trivia (Stream will automatically redirect to this one: [Wayback/Archive] youtu.be/uRpUdQi31tg )
- 18:00 Bring-a-Hack on Gather Town platform (details on joining sent to ticket holders and on the Discord server)
- Day 2: [Wayback/Archive] 2021 Hackaday Remoticon: Saturday – YouTube
Approximate hour:minute time stamps as published for Saturday
They are usually at least minutes off; substract 10:00 to get the rough hour:minute index into the video, then scroll from there.
- 10:00 Opening Remarks
- 10:10 Keynote – Keith Thorne: LIGO: The Most Sensitive Instrument Humans Ever Created Will Unfold the Mysteries of Gravitational Waves
- 11:10 Arsenijs Picugins: Laptop-Be-Done
- 12:00 Uri Shaked: Reverse Engineering the ESP32 WiFi
- 12:35 Hash Salehi: Smart Meter Hacking
- 13:10 Jay Doscher: Getting Started With and Outgrowing Tinkercad
- 14:00 Joey Castillo: Teaching An Old LCD New Tricks
- 14:35 Colin O’Flynn: Upskilling your Hardware Security Work
- 15:10 Rob Weinstein: Patently Obvious – Reverse Engineering a 45 Year Old Patent into a Fully-Functional HP-35 Replica
- 16:00 Debra Ansell: Form is Function: Modular PCB Building Blocks
- 16:35 Vaibhav Chhabra: M19 Initiative – A Case of Open Innovation & Distributed Manufacturing at Scale
- 17:25 Keynote – Jeremy Fielding: Building Hardware that Moves: the Fundamentals that Everyone Should Know
- 18:25 Hackaday Prize Ceremony
- 19:25 Closing Remarks
- 19:35 DJ Jackalope: Live Set (listen/watch on Twitch, chat with everyone on discord)
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 