Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/03
[Wayback/Archive] Show HN: Live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme | Hacker News
As a fun evening project, I made a live-updating version of the ‘What a week, huh?’ meme (based on a panel from The Adventures of Tintin comics [1]).
There’s a page for every timeframe:
Current time is determined by a Cloudflare Worker using the request IP (not logged or stored). No JavaScript is sent to the browser.
[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh
It was easy to edit the HTML to change the message and CSS for the text dimensions, see the image on the right.
MacOS users will likely recognise the font as it is the Marker Felt font which is included by default on MacOS.
And it would be cool to alter the speech bubbles to be more like the ones Hergé used, see this comment:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/28
Every now and then, documentation in source code requires an ASCII table. Sometimes table cells are spanning multiple rows or/and column.
TL;DR: The tools I tried did not support that, so manual labour is still needed.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01
[Wayback/Archive] Maartje: “Remember in Brussels to start …” – BLÅHAJ Social
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Remember in Brussels to start a conversation you have to do the Language 3-way handshake. Here is a scenario:
SYN: Goeiedag/Bonjour!
SYN-ACK: Goeiedag!
ACK: Hoe kan ik i helpen?
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Do keep in mind that this 3-way handshake is ILLEGAL outside of the borders of brussels. Here is a map.
Yes people have been sued.
Indeed: sued – [Wayback/Archive] Train Conductor language outrage in Belgium « Euro Weekly News
TL;DR
- If you say “Bonjour” in the Dutch part, you can get sued
- If you say “Goeiedag” in the French part, you can get sued
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/14
Most shares of this [Wayback/Archive] Pie Comic by John McNamee is is with the attribution cut off, no alt-text and heavy recompression artefacts.
The first is unforgivable: cartoonists put a lot of effort in their work, so sharing their work should at least include the attribution on the picture itself, and preferably the name in text and link to their original work.
The second is not surprising: the comic is 7 years old and published at (now only) 500 pixels wide, so her it is again but with alt-text:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/04
I like that Mike Luckovich often polls about which cartoon to publish.
Sometimes, I hope he draws both because both are great.
[Wayback/Archive] Post by @mluckovich.bsky.social — Bluesky
Which one should I draw?
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29
Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:
- fiber outage of the Internet Archive
- DoS of Cloudflare by itself
- AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
- Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
- framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
- many more¹
Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27
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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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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This was a nice idea, but apparently not reaching the target audience:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 