Interesting:
Get more insights by calculating individual cardiovascular risk and the effect of preventive treatment.
--jeroen
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U-prevent
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/10
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Kenteken Font | dafont.com
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/07
This is cool when one needs a temporary 1-day Dutch license plate (for instance when importing a car): [Wayback/Archive] Kenteken Font | dafont.com
Download:
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Forrest Brazeal on Twitter about their your process for learning a new technology or framework on the job
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/03
Interesting responses to [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “People who’ve been software engineers for awhile: what’s your process for learning a new technology or framework on the job? (I want the beginners who follow me to read the replies carefully)”.
Not just interesting for beginners to read, but for any developer: understanding how other people acquire new technology helps you to compare your own way of learning to others.
Forrest keeps these simple steps as “[Wayback/Archive] For me:
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Ester Naomi Perquin on Twitter: “… Wat is het Syndroom van Moeje eigenlijk en wat moet je ermee?”
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/28
Mooie draad: over “Wat is het Syndroom van Moeje eigenlijk en wat moet je ermee?”
Begin-tweet: [Wayback/Archive] Ester Naomi Perquin on Twitter: “Op speciaal verzoek van iemand met weinig geld en veel zorgen (die momenteel op dagelijke basis met #hetsyndroomvanmoeje te maken krijgt) vandaag nog even een kort draadje daarover. Wat is het Syndroom van Moeje eigenlijk en wat moet je ermee? 1/10”
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Some interesting tweets by @isotopp and others on home power measurement and what to do to optimise energy usage at home
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/26
For my link archive (browse back and forth in the tweets: lots of useful tips):
[Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “@mausdompteur @HildebrandtRalf … Tasmota Support P1-mqtt in Python, für den oa Zuidwijk Slimme Lezer Diese Lösung setze ich ein.”
A few of his power usage pictures:
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Toeristenbelasting per gemeente 2025, plus overzicht belastingen Bollenstreek
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/24
[Wayback/Archive] Toeristenbelasting per gemeente 2025
via [Wayback/Archive] Toeristenbelasting in Zuid-Holland stijgt: in deze gemeenten betaal je meer dan vorig jaar
Gerelateerd
Allemaal via [Wayback/Archive] Overzicht tarieven | Belastingen Bollenstreek
Toeristenbelasting
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Download your Kindle books soon, because Amazon will block them after February 25, 2025
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Download & transfer via USB Transfer Tip: After downloading, use your USB cable to connect your computer and Kindle. Your Kindle will appear as a drive on your computer. Copy your downloaded file from your computer to your Kindle’s documents folder. ❗️Starting 26 February 2025, the ‘Download & Transfer via USB’ option will no longer be available. You can still send Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled devices by selecting the ‘Deliver or Remove from Device’ option. Learn more about managing downloads
Amazon will disable downloading of Kindle books after 2025-02-25 (yup: slightly more than a week!):
(image on the right via Jan Wildeboer)
Edit 20250224: steps to convert from Kindle 1.17 on MacOS or Windows in 3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free.
It allowed me to convert everything to PDF except one book which I found a free PDF of at [Wayback/Archive] Linear Algebra Done Right as [Wayback/Archive] linear.axler.net/LADR4e.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View] via [WaybackSave/Archive] Sheldon Axler on X: “The free Kindle version of the fourth edition of my book Linear Algebra Done Right is now available at www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Mathematics-ebook/dp/B0DDT4WVRD. The free pdf version of the book is available at linear.axler.net. The free translation into Chinese is also available as a pdf file at linear.axler.net“ ¹
Back to the original:
Table with URLs for your Kindle libraries where you can download manually based on https://www.amazon.com/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc/ which I got form the below mentioned download tools:
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Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method • Zettelkasten Method
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/17
Every now and then you bump into an interesting post on a workflow you already have but did not know the name for.
This time it is [Wayback/Archive] Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method which has this nice definition:
A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thought possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.
I thought a bit about it and it feels quite a bit like this blog: the ~5k draft posts at the time of writing are similar to a Zettelkasten: short notes with title and links either internally or externally.
These drafts are private, but the actual blog posts are either public (already published: some 8k at the time of writing) or queued for publication (some 2 years at the time of writing).
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Cleaning PlexWriters – Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “@jpluimers Usually the trays are a little sticky on these: I take them apart, grease up the tray mechanism and any gears (use lithium grease), clean the laser with Isopropyl alcohol, clean all the connectors with WD40 contact cleaner, retro-bright the front – job done!”
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14
Back in the days, Plextor made a series of great PlexWriter CD and DVD/RW devices. This is how to get them working again:
[Wayback/Archive] Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “@jpluimers Usually the trays are a little sticky on these: I take them apart, grease up the tray mechanism and any gears (use lithium grease), clean the laser with Isopropyl alcohol, clean all the connectors with WD40 contact cleaner, retro-bright the front – job done!” (retrobright thread further down this blog-post)
Via [Wayback/Archive] Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “I’ve fully refurbished the Plextor PlexWriter on the bottom, inside and out, I need to get these other three sorted! 👍 💿📀📀📀”
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The Search Engine for Vintage Computers: FrogFind!
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/12
[Wayback/Archive] FrogFind! (archived as “Server Error”, but working fine on my end) and [Wayback/Archive] FrogFind!
FrogFind!
The Search Engine for Vintage Computers
Leap to:
Built by Action Retro on YouTube | Logo by Mac84 | Why build such a thing?Powered by DuckDuckGov1.2
More information at [Wayback/Archive] About FrogFind!
Based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fivefilters/readability.php: PHP port of Mozilla’s Readability.js and DuckDuckGo.
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 