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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/03
Learned a while ago: if you have the username from a GitHub or GitLab user, you can download interesting that sometimes can make life easier (but not necessarily more secure):
github.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keysgitlab.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keysgithub.com/username.png gives you their profile image
And that there are tools like gh, glab and age that can make direct use of them.
I love Twitter, so thanks for these for teaching me these little tricks:
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, ArchiveTeamWarrior, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, GitHub, GitLab, Internet, InternetArchive, OpenSSH, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SSH, ssh/sshd, WayBack machine | Tagged: GitHub, GitLab | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/20
A sidestep of the series around Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too):
Enumerating Windows and especially Child Windows is a recursive endeavour, so I wondered if it was possible to write a self referencing delegate, anonymous method or lambda in C#.
That turns out to be way more complicated than I hoped for.
Some notes below, as:
- one day I might want to rewrite the core to use this technique just for learning purposes
- finding these links was quite a bit harder than expected due to link rot often caused by missing redirects (especially on the Microsoft blog sites: for one as not all their blog members are still with them which means content got ditched, and also because they moved through a couple of blog platforms so the really old links to not redirect, not even while tracking them through the Wayback Machine, or the content is incomplete which is why all below links are both in the Wayback Machine and Archive.is)
Here we go:
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Posted in .NET, C#, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Software Development | Tagged: 000080, 0000ff, 008080, ff0000 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/19
Earlier this months I wrote Writing a tool that restarts the Google Chat desktop app Window (and hopefully the Google Duo desktop app Window too) promising I would rewrite the Delphi code into C# and integrate it into PowerShell.
This is the beginning on porting the basics of the Delphi code (which had a flaw!) to C# and contains EnumWindows/EnumChildWindows and error handling tricks and tips.
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Posted in .NET, C#, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, __Unfinished | Tagged: 46843, 51505, 600 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/27
A long while ago, I participated in a Twitter thread that started with a translation of some important accessibility posts by Bianca Prins, then extended it to the concept to archivability:
[WayBack] Thread by @jpluimers: “I am going to first translate this, then extend this to archivability…. @jpluimers […]” #UXdesign #accessibility.
TL;DR
Let’s go
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Posted in ArchiveTeamWarrior, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Internet, InternetArchive, Power User, Software Development, Usability, User Experience (ux), WayBack machine | Tagged: accessibility, toegankelijkheid, UXdesign | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/25
On the reading list wondering which tool chains can deliver NtAPI based development: [Wayback/Archive] Going Native – Malicious Native Applications
Via [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @MrPc69257431 on Thread Reader App with first tweet at
https://x.com/MrPc69257431/status/1864855379651498292
Note that being able to call NtAPI from your code base does not mean NtAPI based development: Pure NtAPI means you need a linker that can target a different output. See the quote from the above article (emphasis mine):
So, to get started with an empty native executable, all we have to do is include the “phnt.h” file, and set up the NtProcessStartup function. Then it’s important to tell the linker that we want to link against ntdll, and that we’ll be making a native application by passing in the “Native” text to the Subsystem linker option
It means that for instance Delphi is kind of out of the question for this, see these links on why:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/19
Last week, I wrote that I switched to Visual Studio Code for most of my text based coding: Visual Studio Code: blazingly fast text expansion with Emmet.
I also use vscode for documentation and text writing, which – yes sometimes I am a copy/paste person too – means you want a bit more flexibility than just copying the selected text.
In most of my previous development tools, either the tool itself, or a plugin, would allow me to copy the word under the cursor if none was selected.
I wanted to change that behaviour too and become more flexible.
So I did some searches:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/20
Boy was I surprised how bad a human brain functions when getting more stressful:
Figure 6
STATE DEPENDENT FUNCTIONING
| “STATE” |
CALM |
ALERT |
ALARM |
FEAR |
TERROR |
DOMINANT
BRAIN AREAS |
Cortex
(DMN) |
Cortex
(Limbic) |
Limbic
(Diencephalon) |
Diencephalon
(Brainstem) |
Brainstem |
ADAPTIVE “Option”
Arousal |
Reflect
(create) |
Flock
(hypervigilance) |
Freeze
(resistance) |
Flight
(defiance) |
Fight |
ADAPTIVE “Option”
Dissociation |
Reflect
(daydream) |
Avoid |
Comply |
Dissociate
(paralysis/catatonia) |
Faint
(collapse) |
| COGNITION |
Abstract
(creative) |
Concrete
(routine) |
Emotional |
Reactive |
Reflexive |
| FUNCTIONAL IQ |
120-100 |
110-90 |
100-80 |
90-70 |
80-60 |
I got the table from a Tweet by Andrea Walraven-Thissen (see below).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/01
I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before:
- the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which of course is similar to “infinite loop” and entries for “infinite loop See loop, infinite” and “loop, infinite See infinite loop”.
- infinite loop in “LaTeX: A Document Preparation System” by Leslie Lamport, printed in 1994.
In the last one, I promised to list more occurrences which I now finally had time for to do.
But let me first elaborate more on the observation that modern computer books (like for instance on C# and Delphi beyond version 1) lack these kinds of index pun.
On the Delphi side, the index entry joke for recursion got removed no later than Delphi 3 (I am still looking for a Delphi 2 version of the Object Pascal Language Guide, see further below) even before the book being fully redone electronically and the index pages generation being automated in
I think I even understand why that is: the process of creating of indices. By the start of this century, more and more indices were automatically being generated and for the last 2 decades or so, all of them are. Back in the days however, indices were mostly done by hand. Nowadays, with everything automated, it is actually pretty tricky in most environments to add such an “infinite loop” index entry like in the Turbo Pascal book, as it would require two things at once:
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