On my list of things to look at via [Wayback/Archive] “AutoLogonSID” – Google Search:
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Need to check out the Windows AutoLogonSID registry value and other autologon security features in Windows
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16
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Documentation should be easily searchable (No documentation | CommitStrip)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10
Nowadays software development documentation is usually sparse and distributed, which means it should be well searchable.
[Wayback/Archive] No documentation | CommitStrip
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By Jack Rhysider: if you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging.🧵👇
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04
I quote the last tweets in the series starting with [Wayback/Archive] Jack Rhysider on Twitter: “If you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging. 🧵👇”
1…17.
So to recap. By blogging you will become a better writer and communicator, learn the concepts better, open new opportunities, have a fantastic notebook for self reference, maybe make money, become appreciated by more people, and show off your IT skills.
So how do you get started? Try these: WordPress, Jekyll, Ghost, Hugo, Medium, Wix, Squarespace. I really don’t care what you use. Just jump in and start blogging. You can always move everything to a different place later. Good luck and I hope to see some new bloggers from this.
and a few ones that came up in the responses:
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Do Not Stare: protip: when referring to your favourite programming language’s features
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/26
Cool idea: [Wayback/Archive] Do Not Stare: protip: when referring to your favourite programming language’s features
protip: when referring to your favourite programming language’s features, call them spells instead to sound more mysterious and cool.
👎 “memory safety feature”
👍 “memory safety spell”
--jeroen
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When you broke code, finding back where it got broken is easier if you have small change increment (i.e. bisection and binary tree search)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/26
A while ago [Wayback/Archive] b0rk (Julia Evans [Wayback/Archive) wrote an interesting Tweet on finding back where you broke code of which the OCR text reads like this:
strategy: change working code into broken code
If I have a working version of the program, I like to:
- go back to the working code
- slowly start changing it to be more like my broken code
- test if it’s still working after every single tiny change
· ⬊⸳⬈˙⬊⸳⬈˙⬊⸳ OH THAT’S WHAT BROKE IT!!!I like this because it puts me back on solid ground: with every change make that DOESN’T cause the bug to come back, I know that wasn’t the problem.
by JULIA EVANS @bork wizardzines.com
This is similar (her arrows were of varying length) to using a binary search algorithm hunting for where the code was broken using bisection: repeatedly halving your search space to quickly zoom into the problem.
Another important aspect is that small commits while fiddling to solve an issue can help you determine what small commit was actually solving the issue.
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Ringzer0: “Support your local OSS Devs ” – Infosec Exchange
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/24
Important, as it is the only way to keep your development stack functioning well: [Wayback/Archive] Ringzer0: “Support your local OSS Devs ” – Infosec Exchange
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string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow (and how Embarcadero broke one of the product version neutral redirects)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/24
Quite a while ago [Wayback/Archive] string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow asked by [Wayback/Archive] User Jeff was answered by [Wayback/Archive] Andreas Rejbrand:
The simplest approach is
function GetAlphaSubstr(const Str: string): string; const ALPHA_CHARS = ['a'..'z', 'A'..'Z']; var ActualLength: integer; i: Integer; begin SetLength(result, length(Str)); ActualLength := 0; for i := 1 to length(Str) do if Str[i] in ALPHA_CHARS then begin inc(ActualLength); result[ActualLength] := Str[i]; end; SetLength(Result, ActualLength); end;but this will only consider English letters as “alphabetical characters”. It will not even consider the extremely important Swedish letters Å, Ä, and Ö as “alphabetical characters”!
Slightly more sophisticated is
function GetAlphaSubstr2(const Str: string): string; var ActualLength: integer; i: Integer; begin SetLength(result, length(Str)); ActualLength := 0; for i := 1 to length(Str) do if Character.IsLetter(Str[i]) then begin inc(ActualLength); result[ActualLength] := Str[i]; end; SetLength(Result, ActualLength); end;
Back in 2011 I added a comment that for more than a decade would redirect to the most current documentation on the IsLetter method:
+1 for using
IsLetterwhich checks the Unicode definition for being a letter or not [Wayback] docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/en/Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
Back then, Delphi X2 was current, so it would redirect
- from [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/en/Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
- to [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/XE2/en/Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
- then to [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/XE2/en/Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
- ending at [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE2/en/System.Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
After a long outage in 2022 (see The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.) only the Alexandria help was restored.
This killed the above redirect.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive] George Birbilis noticed that and commented this:
@JeroenWiertPluimers the correct link now is: docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Alexandria/en/…
In order to refer to the most recent Delphi version, now you have to use [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/en/System.Character.TCharacter.IsLetter.
This redirects:
- via [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Alexandria/en/System.Character.TCharacter.IsLetter to
- to [Wayback] https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Alexandria/en/System.Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
The above breaks the help integration from older Delphi products which is bad. It is also bad because it makes it harder to port legacy Delphi code to more modern Delphi versions.
Hopefully the above gives you a bit insight how the docwiki help system was designed and what is left of that design.
–jeroen
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The codewali on Twitter: “How API works?”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/17
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Cool nginx playground by b0rk (Julia Evans)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/28
This is a really cool interactive [Wayback/Archive] nginx playground!
It starts with a default nginx configuration which you can edit and spins up a docker container for each run showing the results of that configuration.
How cool is that to learn how nginx works (:
This is how I found out about it:
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I need to contemplate about (not) using standards Commit Messages and Commit Emojis
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/27
These Tweets from Kris are food for thought about using standards for Commit Messages and Commit Emojis.
It is the “writing zzzz by convention” mantra all over the place (where zzzz can be anything from code to documentation): does it add value, should it be formalised, can it by achieved by other means?
I need to think about it later, so I saved his tweets below:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 