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From Meh to WOW – With 1 “Tiny” Hack! – YouTube – where the comments mention better ways than this convoluted solution

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/03

[Wayback/Archive] From Meh to WOW – With 1 “Tiny” Hack! – YouTube shows an interesting but convoluted solution to solve temperature drift on a cheap Tuya WT410-BH-3A-W thermostat (there are similar models, see below) based on the replacement sensor [Wayback/Archive] WSEN-TIDS Temperature Sensor IC & EV-Kits | Sensors | Würth Elektronik Product Catalog.

Luckily the commenters stepped in and suggest better and easier ways.

On the other hand, the solution is nice to know as it allows plugging in a remote thermostat that sits in a better place to read the temperature while the control bits stay in a place where it is easier to manually adjust.

Chapters:

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Posted in ARM Cortex-M, Development, Domotics/Smarthome, ESP32, ESPHome, Hardware, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Home Assistant, Homey, IoT Internet of Things, Network-and-equipment, Power User, STM32 | Leave a Comment »

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

Posted in About, LifeHacker, Music, Personal, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Mac traag, waterschade of kapot? Binnen 2-6 uur gerepareerd

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/02

[Wayback/Archive] Mac traag, waterschade of kapot? Binnen 2-6 uur gerepareerd

Macleasy BV is een sociaal & duurzaam Mac Reparatie bedrijf uit Utrecht.Jongvolwassenen & MBO-studenten binnen het autisme spectrum repareren op een snelle, vakkundige & duurzame manier Apple MacBooks & iMacs die oud, traag, gecrasht, kapot of waterschade hebben.Door het op een sociale & duurzame manier te laten repareren gaat je Mac 2-7 jaar langer mee, bespaar je tijd, geld, het milieu en creëer je werkgelegenheid.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Dinsdale. – D💉ane ديانا дiане Blijf thuis ⭕️🇺🇦 on Twitter: “@RickvanSoest @RenskeRH Ik heb dit nooit gedaan maar weet sinds kort van een bedrijfje in Utrecht dat oude macs repareert. “.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Apple, MacBook, Mac, iMac | Leave a Comment »

freebsd – Expanding the disk size on pfsense under VMWare ESXi – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/30

It’s a tricky process, but I might need this in the future:

–jeroen

Posted in Hardware, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

Naming Files and Directories the Right Way – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/29

I totally agree with the first comment of [Wayback/Archive] Naming Files and Directories the Right Way – YouTube as it holds not just for file management, but for naming anything including software development:

I’ve watched many videos on file management, but this one explains naming very clearly.
  1. 0:31 Rule 1: No Spaces
  2. 2:40 Rule 2: Avoid Special Characters
  3. 3:43 Rule 3: Be Descriptively Concise
  4. 4:24 Rule 4: Case Sensitivity
  5. 5:00 Rule 5: Dates and Sorting
  6. 6:40 Rule 6: Be Consistent!

--jeroen

Posted in *nix, Apple, BSD, Development, Linux, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

JavaScript unit testing in the browser without Node.js: Getting Started | QUnit

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/29

A cool way to unit-test JavaScript code on the browser side is [Wayback/Archive] Getting Started | QUnit:

To get started with QUnit in the browser, create a simple HTML file called test.html and include the following markup:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Test Suite</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://code.jquery.com/qunit/qunit-2.19.4.css">
<body>
  <div id="qunit"></div>
  <div id="qunit-fixture"></div>
  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/qunit/qunit-2.19.4.js"></script>
</body>

That’s all the markup you need to start writing tests. Note that this loads the library from the jQuery CDN.

I was so glad to find QUnit via the below links as I unconsciously wanted such a thing for a very very long time.

You can either run it locally or remotely or from the jQuery CDN as both it

  • is a Node.js module so the source files are all available on the jQuery CDN
  • it does not require the Node.js to load so it can run from any location you want (that CDN, locally or another on-line location)

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

vmstan/gravity-sync: 💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/28

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] vmstan/gravity-sync: 💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.

Reasoning: [Wayback/Archive] Frequent Questions: Why two Pi-hole? · vmstan/gravity-sync Wiki

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, DNS, Hardware Development, Internet, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link with the “redirected from” instead of “saved from”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/27

This is a follow-up on Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navigate to the canonical link which can be accessed from multiple URLs, some through redirection:

You can see the difference in these archived links (the navivate was a typo that I only spotted after the original blog post got published):

I wanted a Bookmarklet to find the last link; the one in the referenced blog post didn’t.

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

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

Posted in Awareness, LifeHacker, Power User, Pseudoscience Bollocks, science | Leave a Comment »

SearX: a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/26

Experimenting with [Wayback/Archive] SearX: a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine

Links (including repository):

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Posted in Bing, DuckDuckGo, Internet, Power User, SearchEngines, SearX, Seeks | Leave a Comment »