Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/20
Since a few days, oo my desktop systems, Chromium based browsers cannot completely load the Google Chat progressive web app any more.
Symptoms:
- Google Chat Android app works fine from my mobile devices
- This link works fine on my desktop in Chromium based browsers: mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#chat/home
- This link fails to fully load on my desktop in Chromium based browsers: chat.google.com/u/0/app?wr=1
The failure is that the green progress bar under the Google Workspace logo quickly almost fills up to become fully green, but then stalls without any network activity.
What I tried but does not fix:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/20
They have existed since early this century, and manage to continuously feature up to date Dutch speed trap information on the interwebz:
I wish they had linked to a site like [Wayback/Archive] HMpaal.nl to quickly access location information, for instance [Wayback/Archive] HMpaal.nl: A4/R/36.6:
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Posted in Android, Awareness, cars, LifeHacker, Mobile Development, Power User, Windows CE, Windows Phone Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/19
A while ago, I needed to check if 20251120T0700Z was a valid ISO 8601 timestamp. [Archive] ISO8601 Date Converter Online – DenCode showed it was.
It can even be called directly: [Archive] ISO8601 Date Converter Online – DenCode: 20251120T0700Z Europe/Amsterdam .
Not sure what language it was developed in (it runs server side), but it is a great tool to do some occasional testing of timestamp values.
Query: [Archive] datetime parse iso 8601 online at DuckDuckGo
I didn’t have time to check all the links from the Query in depth, but one seems to be JavaScript and another one is server side:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/18
Relatively old mathematics that is still relevant: Markov Chains.
It is about predictability of events based on the current state of affairs (and not past state of affairs). Lot’s of AI have been about Markov Chains for a long time: spam filters, text prediction while typing, search engine results, language recognition by letter-pairs, and many more.
A nice video about it is [Wayback/Archive] The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything – YouTube
Related are many foundations in information technology, of which Markov and Shannon are mentioned in the video:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/17
During a Cloudflare outage¹, I learned about [Wayback/Archive] Wisp.place Documentation | Wisp.place Docs
Decentralized static site hosting on the AT Protocol.
Wisp.place enables you to host static websites directly in your AT Protocol repository. Your Personal Data Server (PDS) holds the cryptographically signed manifest and files as the authoritative source of truth, while hosting services index and serve them with CDN-like performance.
This is the documentation of [Wayback/A] wisp.place by [Wayback/Archive] Ana (@nekomimi.pet) — Bluesky.
Related:
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Posted in CDN (Content Delivery Network), Cloud, Cloudflare, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Hosting, Infrastructure, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/16
Apparently people are fed up enough that finally El Reg published an article like [Wayback/Archive] RSS dulls the pain of the modern web • The Register.
So I wrote this [Wayback/Archive] Post by @wiert.bsky.social — Bluesky
I have been consuming the majority of web content through RSS for at least 15 plus years now, and The Register explains exactly why:
the web has become unbearable to consume. Not just because of ads and their risks, but especially because every web site has a different user experience.
Before 2013, I used Google Reader, but Google has the habit of killing products, so now I use Feedly.
These are some prior blog posts I wrote on them:
- Google Reader stops at 2013-07-01: How can I download my Reader data? (via: Reader Help)
- Google Reader alternatives: did you make a choice yet?
- A few notes on Google Reader replacements that I’m testing
- Is there a Google Reader replacement that keeps ALL Google Reader history?
- knowledge worker tip: adding a Google Group to #Feedly using one of its RSS feeds
El Reg linked newer posts by others:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/13
Kennelijk heb ik gestudeerd aan de:
- Vrije Universiteit
- Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
- Technische Universiteit Enschede
- Universiteit Leiden
in de vakken:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/13
The notes are based on the NanoKVM PCIe as that is what I wanted to set-up on a Windows 11 compatible PC that could be remotely managed for someone not savvy enough to do that themselves. They had an old Supermicro based PC with IPMI which kind of does IPKVM when using the embedded video hardware, but back when I wrote this early 2025 – the year Windows 10 would become end-of-life – it was:
- a nightmare to figure out which Supermicro mainboards were Windows 11 compatible
- remote IPMI tooling ¹ was a pain to get working (the most important one is IPMIView which requires Java and even with Java installed would have issues connecting to various generations of IPMI)
- newer KVM tooling has way better
- user experience than classic ones like IPMI and iDRAC
- features like for instance WireGuard support which makes for way less network configuration
- open source software (for at least NanoKVM I mention here, but also for Pi-KVM which has the drawback of also requiring a Raspberry Pi)
Since none of the modern remote KVM hardware tooling seems to be able to do passthrough video, the solution I researched for was to split the outgoing video signal (either Displayport or HDMI), then optionally convert Displayport to HDMI and finally route that HDMI into the remote KVM hardware.
Links
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Posted in Displays, Hardware, IPMI, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, SuperMicro, Windows, Windows 11 | Tagged: 339 | Leave a Comment »
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