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Museum vol vintage computers toont het stenen tijdperk van ons schermleven | Trouw

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/15

Trouw publiceerde dit prachtige ode aan het HomeComputerMuseum in Helmond wat een belangrijk document is aan de geschiedenis van computers, voornamelijk, maar niet niet alleen die thuis stonden:

[Wayback/Archive] Museum vol vintage computers toont het stenen tijdperk van ons schermleven | Trouw

Iets bijzonders in dit museum is dat:

Je mag overal aanzitten, ‘behalve aan het personeel’.

Maar ook dat de computers, spellen en andere elektronica in hun natuurlijke historische omgeving staan: meubels, behang, accessoires sluiten allemaal aan.

Mijn eigen verzameling aan historische computers wordt na mijn dood aan dit museum ter beschikking gesteld.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Post by @homecomputermuseum.computermuseum.social.ap.brid.gy — Bluesky

--jeroen

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Online HTML Stripper. Remove HTML and formatting from text

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/11

This was the easiest tool to remove HTML from select tags while keeping line breaks: [Wayback/Archive] Online HTML Stripper. Remove HTML and formatting from text.

Especially the client-side on-line tools I tried failed that option:

This just does not work at all for me: [Wayback/Archive] HTML Cleaner (cannot paste HTML text: needs to paste formatted text which does not work with select elements).

Could I have done this on a command-line? Of course, but I don’t need it often enough to warrant investigating and remembering how to do that in an efficient manner.

Queries:

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The Meinl TMT1B-BK Tambourine on the MC-TH Tambourine Holder: use Reece Cotton Tape makes it fit perfectly

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/09

I combined these two Meinl percussion products

After about 10 years of use, the foam handle of the tambourine started deteriorating, so I already had replaced it with Reece Cotton Tape (a grip tape for instance used with hockey sticks).

Last year, I added more grip tape to make it snug fit the MC-TH Tambourine Holder as without grip tape (even with foam padding), that would be a way too loose fit.

Products:

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A few diagrams.net (formerly draw.io, see below why) that made me more productive with it

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/09

Diagram.net is a wonderful on-line and off-line drawing tool that saves drawings in XML format and provides a rich set of shapes libraries.

It used to start out as draw.io (well, actually diagram.ly when some parts were still Java applets), but then in 2020 started migrating to migrate to diagrams.net, both for domain and name, because, well a [Wayback/Archive] wonderful piece of modern day British Imperialism. See [Wayback/Archive] Blog – Open source diagramming is moving to diagrams.net, slowly for details.

Oh yes, this is one of the tools where Java and JavaScript actually are related (:

The tool is still open source at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jgraph/drawio: Source to app.diagrams.net.

These were helpful links:

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Cymbal Trolley – Deluxe with Wheels – Protection Racket

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/06

Expensive, but still interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Cymbal Trolley – Deluxe with Wheels – Protection Racket

Catalogue No. Product Internal Dimensions
6021T-00 24″ Deluxe Cymbal Trolley (25.5″” x 6.5″ Internal)
6020T-00 22″ Deluxe Cymbal Trolley (23.5″ x 6.5″ Internal)

All of their product dimensions (they make a lot more percussion cases) at [Wayback] www.protectionracket.com/files/dimensions/internal-dimensions-list.xlsx [Wayback XLSX View/XLSX View]

Via: [Wayback/Archive] percussion trolley – Google Search

--jeroen

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Fluisterend “het NPO Soul & Jazz-kanaal met zo min mogelijk geklets overdag, en elk uur een nieuwsbulletin is nog steeds on-line”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/02

Niet verder vertellen, maar mijn vraag “Iemand een alternatief NPO Soul & Jazz-kanaal met zo min mogelijk geklets overdag, en elk uur een nieuwsbulletin?” is op dit moment nog overbodig.

NPO Soul & Jazz is nog steeds on-line, nog steeds met elk uur een nieuwsbulletin. Alleen de gepresenteerde uitzendingen zijn verdwenen. Dat is in bepaalde opzichten een voordeel: minder geklets, ook ‘s avonds.

Edit 20260317: de stream staat op icecast.omroep.nl/radio6-bb-mp3 (een groter lijstje Nederlandse streams staat in mijn blog post FemFM – 〝50% vrouw in je oor, of we zappen door!〞)

--jeroen

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This is chillingly scary: Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’ – The New York Times

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/26

I’m speechless: [Wayback/Archive] https://archive.is/2026.01.24-201053/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/children-genetics-race-science.html

Via [Wayback/Archive] Kevin Bird on Skyview: An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it’s embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.

Starting skeet for which you need a BSKY account: Post by @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social — Bluesky

--jeroen

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Apparaat terugsturen | Klantenservice | Ziggo

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/16

[Wayback/Archive] Apparaat terugsturen | Klantenservice | Ziggo

Stuur de apparatuur in een stevige doos naar ons terug. Gebruik de doos die je van ons ontvangt of de originele doos. Als je die niet (meer) hebt, kun je ook een andere passende doos gebruiken.

Stuur de apparatuur naar dit adres:

Ziggo retouren
Antwoordnummer 1070
5800 VB Venray

Of download het retourformulier:

[Wayback] Formulier apparaten terugsturen (542.0 kB)

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For a brief moment of time Mike Luckovich polled the public for his next cartoon

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/15

Mike Luckovich on BSKY: Which one should I draw?

Now dead link – I was too late to archive it: Mike Luckovich on BSKY: Which one should I draw?

[Wayback/Archive] 536333987-938257d2-91fc-491c-9abc-647c651085c6.png (609×443)

Larger draft images:

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Is Fortran better than Python for teaching the basics of numerical linear algebra? – Dr. Jean-Christophe Loiseau

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/13

The summary of [Wayback/Archive] Is Fortran better than Python for teaching the basics of numerical linear algebra? – Dr. Jean-Christophe Loiseau is:

  1. 1-based indexing prevents off-by-1 errors
  2. structure is key, especially these foundations:
    • clear begin/end constructs instead of visual clues
    • strong typing
  3. verbose programming languages are easier to learn than non-verbose ones

Modern Fortran helps a lot here and shows that after the initial 13 year gaps between FORTRAN 77 and Fortran 90, and between Fortran 90 and Fortran 2003 (the ANSI Standard Fortran and Fortran 95 in between versions were just minor updates), Modern Fortran has come a very long way and now as a thriving community and an extensive list of Fortran software and tools.

Other typed languages and tool sets like C# and Delphi come to mind here as well though you need libraries with 1-based data structures to solve the first point.

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