Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12
I forgot both to archive this 10+ year old G+ post and schedule a blog post about it This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.….
ASCII to bezier drawn images in a very clever way.
Found it back when searching for prior blog posts on ASCII art, because of my yesterday’s blog-post ASCII Art Archive, so here it finally is: the links about how to go from ASCII art to bezier images. Have fun!
Posted in .NET, ASCII art / AsciiArt, C#, Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, Fun, ObjectiveC, Ruby, Software Development | Tagged: geekporn | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/11
Earlier this year I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Archive
This brought back instant memories about ASCII art, so in the future expect af few unfinished blog-posts that were in my “if I ever get to it archive” about it.
Let me start with my very limited ASCII art I used in late 1980s and early 1990s newsgroup and LISTSERV mailing list signature I reconstructed from a comp.virus post¹ having some very old contact data²:
o _ _ _ _ _ voice: +31-2522-20908 (18:00-24:00 UTC)
/ (_' | (_) (_' | | snail: P.S.O.
__/ attn. Jeroen W. Pluimers
P.O. Box 266
jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl 2170 AG Sassenheim
jeroen_pluimers@f521.n281.z2.fidonet.org The Netherlands
Shortly after that, my main source of income moved from the command-line to GUI based tools, so I temporarily kind of lost interest in command-line tools and customs. In that period FIGlet (see below) got created, which I totally missed (though I vaguely remember the 1.0 version being named newban).
The link at the start of this blog post not only pointed me to FIGlet, but also has a lot of examples (like some [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Logos – asciiart.eu) of which many by ASCII artist Joan Stark, and also links to JavaScript based tools:
Posted in ASCII art / AsciiArt, Development, Encoding, Fun, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Retrocomputing, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/27
Posted in Cyber, Fun, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/11
I tried finding older versions of [Wayback/Archive] 160767437_1614740178716498_1088211482313253900_n.jpg (667×960) from Facebook: Crappy Electrical jokes and Puns. 1,666 likes · 9 talking about this. Just for fun (20210315), especially as the web-site of the ultimate source seems to have died: [Wayback/Archive] Kill The Neighbours, the game that doesn’t hurt – free online puzzle game
Posted in Development, Electronics Development, Fun, Power User | Tagged: lame, laughedanyway, nerdjoke | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/25
A great rambling on “It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway” (I really want that printed on a T-Shirt):
[Wayback/Archive] No, You Are Not Getting a CVE for That.
Lot’s of references by [Wayback/Archive] Parsia to great posts by [Wayback/Archive] Raymond Chen mainly on security issues that are not: there is only a vulnerability when you get from the other side of the outside of the airtight hatchway to the inside, not when you are already inside.
And of course this great reference to H2G2 (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), a trilogy in five parts by Douglas Adams:
Arthur: But can’t you think of something?!
Ford: I did.
Arthur: You did!
Ford: Unfortunately, it rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway—
Arthur: oh.
Ford: —that’s just sealed behind us.
Via:
--jeroen
Posted in Blue team, Fun, History, Power User, Quotes, Red team, Security | Tagged: 19 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/05
For a long time there has been Alice and Bob, but since the end of March 2025 there is Hegseth and Waltz!
Nah, the last Wikipedia link does not show history, as it does not really exist.
But someone made the first Wikipedia page into the below picture where Hegseth replaced Alice, Waltz replaced Bob, and Goldberg replaced Mallory.
I found it in these places, but likely it proliferated more:
[Wayback/Archive] 486367253_10232703147773777_4034863747031352064_n.jpg (766×504)
The Facebook image (see further below) has less JPEG artefacts, so is more original than the Twitter image.
Since [Wayback/Archive] Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral (a highly recommended reading by the way), I archived the image in the links below the blog signature and had Google OCR the text.
OPSEC is easy if you are clueless.
--jeroen
[Wayback/Archive] 427522053-438a2589-f781-45e5-b94e-92fce4c17314.png (766×504)
Hegseth and Waltz
文 24 languages
Article Talk Read Edit View history Tools
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHegseth and Waltz are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [1] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Hegseth and Waltz characters were created by Jeffrey Goldberg in his 2025 article “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”. [2] Subsequently, they have become common archetypes in many scientific and engineering fields, such as
Hegseth
Waltz
Goldberg
Example scenario where communication between Hegseth and Waltz is intercepted by Goldberg
A similar pun was [Wayback/Archive] 487203204_10238119445586263_7274268486470714839_n.jpg (700×433)
Alice, Bob and The Atlantic
Likely all actual images have long been expired from their caches.
Posted in Encryption, Fun, Meme, Power User, Security | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/01
Posted in Development, Fun, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/01
For Whamageddon or Rickrolling: [Wayback/Archive] Personalised audio cards and video books with your own video or audio file (UK) /
[Wayback/Archive] Wenskaart met ingesproken boodschap of eigen muziek – Geluidkaartje (Dutch).
Or build your own with chips like these: [Wayback/Archive] 30S Sound Voice Music Recorder Board Voice Chip Module for Greeting Card DIY | eBay
Or buy blank cards:
Via [Wayback/Archive] sound record your own postcard – Google Search
--jeroen
Posted in Development, Fun, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/27
Just in case I ever need ASCII art in a document again:
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cmatsuoka/figlet: Claudio’s FIGlet tree
Via:
FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
--jeroen
Posted in ASCII, ASCII art / AsciiArt, Development, Encoding, Fun, History, Power User, Retrocomputing, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/16
This site will redirect you to your localised version (which means the archived links are titled “Clothing for nerds & geeks — getDigital”) [Wayback/Archive] Kleding voor nerds en geeks — getDigital.
It is originally German (see below links) and the T-shirt quality is quite OK.
--jeroen
Posted in Fun, LifeHacker, Power User, Quotes, T-Shirt quotes | Leave a Comment »
.
.
[
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 