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skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/15

This is a cool library which I missed when it was introduced while recovering from my extensive cancer treatments:

[Wayback/Archive] skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi based on Google’s Skia graphics library.

The foundation is the cross platform Google 2D Skia Graphics Engine:

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Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Finding back the source

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/15

Description:

A lot of people publish unattributed copies of the cartoon “Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”, so I tried finding it back.

I found out that the Google Image Search has deteriorated to the point where it could not find the 2012 original.

Luckily [Wayback/Archive] Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders. – Google Suche did find the original.

So, without further ado, these are links, the original cartoons by [Wayback/Archive] Tom Toro, first published in The New Yorker:

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ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links – hckrnws

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22

Need to figure out where the ArchiveTeam will be uploading the below archive, as this will help me figure out which links in post blogs I will need to update.

Also, Google never got back to me with an answer what to do with various map and image related shortened URLs for which they themselves also use the goo.gl domain.

[Wayback/Archive] ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links – hckrnws

Related:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] ArchiveTeam goo.gl at DuckDuckGo

--jeroen

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How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? – Web Applications Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/13

Note that below:

  • the two-letter language code can be either lowercase or uppercase
  • the two-letter country code needs to be UPPERCASE

[Wayback/Archive] How to restrict a Google search to results of a specific language? – Web Applications Stack Exchange (thanks [Wayback/Archive] ZygD):

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Too bad @googledrive downloads cannot work without 3rd party cookies. These cookie settings (and JavaScript) need to be enabled in order for them to work correctly

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/09

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Too bad @googledrive downloads cannot work without 3rd party cookies. These cookie settings (and JavaScript) need to be enabled in order for them to work correctly:(see also support.google.com/drive/answer/2423534 )” / Twitter

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Yes, you can globally block JavaScript and enablpe per-site, but you block Bookmarklets too

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/16

Trying to trim down excessive CPU usage of my web browsers, and lessen the risk of intrusion, I experimented with globally disabling JavaScript and only enabling it on sites where it adds value to me.

That is possible (see below), but immediately showed a big side effect: Bookmarklets will not work on sites that have JavaScript disabled.

Disabling JavaScript globally only allows Bookmarklets on sites where you have enabled JavaScript. Not the situation I hoped for (:

I’ll try it for a while though.

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Chrome, Development, Firefox, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

How to remove an entry from Chrome’s Remembered URLs from the url bar? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/09

The delete trick below not just works for the Chrome Omnibox, but for any autocomplete list in Chrome.

[Wayback/Archive] How to remove an entry from Chrome’s Remembered URLs from the url bar? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] cmcculloh, [Wayback/Archive] Gaff and [Wayback/Archive] User 张 源 – Super User):

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I’ve got a URL in Chrome “local.mysite.com” that autopopulates when I start typing “local.my” into the URL bar.
Note that this URL DOES NOT EXIST in my browser history (at chrome://history/#e=1&p=0) because it isn’t a real site and therefore couldn’t ever be successfully visited and therefore never shows up in my history.

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Exporting Chrome History (with the “new” configuration and state file structure), and Epoch dates on various systems

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/02

Quite a while ago, Chrome moved from a structure based on “Current Session“, “Current Tabs“, “Last Session” and “Last Tabs” into “Session_#################” and “Tabs_#################” stored in a “Sessions” folder (and similar migrations for other state and configuration files).

The numbers in the “Session_*” and “Tabs_*” files are time stamps of those sessions, for instance one needs to figure out what the “13310808970819630” in “Session_13310808970819630” and “Session_13310808970819630” means.

Lot’s of web-pages with tips and tricks around the old structures are still around, often surfacing high in Google Search results.

I was interested in a particular trick to export Google Chrome browsing history and had a hard time figuring out the easiest solution.

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Posted in Apple, Batch-Files, Chrome, Chrome, Database Development, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, NirSoft, Polyglot, Power User, Scripting, SQLite, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – randomaccess3/googleURLParser: parser for Google search strings

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/01

Back when I observed the Google Search sei parameter which I hadn’t seen before yet, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – randomaccess3/googleURLParser: parser for Google search strings

It covers a truckload of parameters, including the sei one, which isn’t as new as I thought, as it was at least 2017 old: [Wayback/Archive] [Neat URL] Yet another Google parameter… · Issue #25 · Smile4ever/firefoxaddons · GitHub

Links referred from the parser tool for further reading:

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DB Browser for SQLite: cross platform, reasonably sized, versatile

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/29

I found [Wayback/Archive] DB Browser for SQLite via [Wayback/Archive] In z’n leren frakske | Tech45 Podcast (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Toon Van de Putte (@toonvandeputte)!).

It is a standalone reasonably sized database browser for the single-process SQLite database (which is itself a file storage replacement for highly table structured data, see below).

With SQLite gaining more and more popularity in standalone application usage (you can even host it inside a web browser session!), I bump in it more often to fix things (more on that in a future blog post), which means that besides the standard console support in SQLite, having a versatile browser is really useful.

DB Browser for SQLite, or in short sqlitebrowser, fulfills that need better than I expected. It’s cross-platform so it works on Mac OS, Windows and Linux (and sort of on WSL2 on Windows, see links below).

Hopefully I can show you how I used it in future blog-posts. For now, and for my link archive, below are just some links to get started.

Oh and the comment: as always with files containing structured data that is randomly accessed you should be really careful when opening them over file-shares or virtual drives like cloud storage.

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