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2014 memory: TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/08

10 years ago, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and attend the [Wayback/Archive] GDG DevFest Netherlands 2014.

Until then, on the mobile front, I only had deep experience with the .NET Compact Framework, on the cloud framework I had no real experience: my experience were (sometimes huge) systems running in private data centers communicating with various protocols over SNA and TCP/IP (and way before that: UUCP and dial-up) and on the programming front my strengths were .NET and Delphi (with truckloads of scripting) and no experience in Go or Dart (Rust was invented a year later).

So I was really happy with the [Wayback/Archive] TL;DR Thank you! You’re awesome! Let’s do it again! • GDG DevFest Netherlands

I think this comment by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on a G+ post is one of the best complements we’ve got:
“Thanks for organizing this. It was a great conference! A great mix of things outside my comfort zone and things I could relate to from a very different perspective: wonderful and inspiring.”

G+ plus is gone, but this memory will last forever as this was a start widening my horizon learning about GDG like I knew about SDN*, Borland/Inprise/Codegear/Embarcadero DevRel and Microsoft DevRel.

Related links (they repeated the DevFest in 2015 as well):

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Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User https://t.co/VPEaaiOGId” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/24

Some good slide material (and even better further down this post) from [Wayback/Archive] Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User”:

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Google Search teamed up with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: the good, the bad, the ugly

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/16

tTL;DR: Google Search also (after 3+ manual steps) showing the most recent Wayback Machine archived page for a web-page search result, helps tremendously for pages that are temporarily off-line (everyone knows how stable the cloud – someone else’s computers – or on-premise computing is), but takes too many steps and still doesn’t index the full Wayback Machine.

But there is a Clint Eastwood movie title here, even after the devastating fact that Google now off-loads its Google Cache to the Wayback Machine (which many sites refuse to be archived in), as per [Wayback/Archive] Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead | Ars Technica:

The good

Many posted the links to the big news last week:

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How to check the country that Google associates with your account, and how to change it – gHacks Tech News

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/02

I used the tips in [Wayback/Archive] How to check the country that Google associates with your account, and how to change it – gHacks Tech News to check out why I would get errors on invited family members that they were not in my country. Somehow my better half could join, but my brother and others could not.

Well, bummer as for all accounts:

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Link to downgrade or cancel Google one membership : GoogleOne

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/29

From [Wayback/Archive] Link to downgrade or cancel Google one membership : GoogleOne:

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Great tip by Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/22

Reminder to check out the tools I use so I can go [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read”

This is the scheme that Jen uses: [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “@melvinjoosten Yeah – I have a lot of recurring meetings, so I use one colour for 1-1s, one colour for big team meetings, and one colour for office hours. It makes it a lot easier to spot the one off meetings which have been added to my calendar (which I leave the default colour)”

or in list form, differentiate between:

  • one-on-one
  • big team
  • office hours
  • default (for events added by others)

–jeroen

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On my list of tools to try: zhot and tweetzhot (both by Rop Gongrijp and based on puppeteer) to create browser screenshots from the terminal

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17

The feature reminds me on how archive.today saves content.

Both the zhot and tweetzhot repositories are on my list of tools to try. They might make writing blog posts easier.

They are both based on [Wayback/Archive] puppeteer/puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node.js API

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Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.

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It demonstrates headless browser usage and can for instance:

  • Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages.
  • Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. “SSR” (Server-Side Rendering)).
  • Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc.
  • Create an up-to-date, automated testing environment. Run your tests directly in the latest version of Chrome using the latest JavaScript and browser features.
  • Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues.
  • Test Chrome Extensions.

Note any headless browser will have some trouble rendering single-page applications.

Repositories:

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

Does Google Photos allow you to tag faces yet?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/24

Reminder for me to check if Google Photo’s allows you to tag people in individual photo’s.

[WayBack] https://twitter.com/dflieb/status/1146174112890408960:

Yes, I am aware that Google Photo’s apps (on at least Android) allow you to attach names to photo’s is selects as unrecognised.

I mean the other way around: have photo with one or more faces on it, then tag each face by hand.

Via: [WayBack] Google Photos will let you manually tag faces it doesn’t recognize

–jeroen

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Henk van Ess on the Google indexing and search algorithms

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/11

Many articles have been published on the Google Leaks earlier this year including a Twitter Thread by Henk van Ess. I will mention his and the original starting article which should give anyone hand and feet to dig deeper and assess for themselves how fast Google might be able to change this and get a feeling on much of it is still relevant over time.

A final note: I wasn’t aware that Google search used the Elixir (programming language) – Wikipedia. Cool!

--jeroen

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Google Search Location Changers for Chrome and Firefox (via Henk van Ess)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/03

Very useful Web Browser extensions (which you can also use in Edge, see [Wayback/Archive] Add, turn off, or remove extensions in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support).

Via [Wayback/Archive] 𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚔 𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚜𝚜 on X: “Sick of seeing the web just locally when using Google? Use Google Search location changer to end this problem. Chrome: … Firefox: …”

--jeroen

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