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pierogi engineering – YouTube – search – hard drive

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/06

The algorithm got me to the first video of this list: [Wayback/Archive] pierogi engineering – YouTube – search – hard drive

It’s similar to a longer second video that also does balancing using the gyroscopic effect of the moving platters.

Nice!

Video links:

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Posted in 18650, Batteries, Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, HDD, Li-Ion, Power User | Leave a Comment »

A few pfSense quirks I got used to over the years

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/06

Everytime when installing a pfSense router from scratch, I seem to re-learn a few of the below quirks. So it was finally time to document them (:

Quite a few of my pfSense configurations are just doing routing between various networks, should not provide DHCP leases and do not always need or have a WAN connected (i.e. they are LAN-only).

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Posted in Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Cyberchef, Development, DHCP, Encoding, Event, Hardware, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers, Software Development, SSH, TCP, TLS, UDP | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

MacOS (at least 2023 and younger): solution for (TrueType) fonts added through MacOS built-in Font Book not showing up in Pages or Preview

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/05

It took me a few queries to find the correct online solution for this problem: after adding a TrueType (and it’s extension: OpenType) font using the built-in MacOS Font Book, they do not show up in Pages or Preview, not even after validating the fonts in Font Book.

Solutions:

  1. reboot (found this out myself)
  2. killing the fontd font daemon from the Activity Monitor
  3. restart font daemon (found out via the link below)
    launchctl kickstart -k gui/`id -u`/com.apple.xtyped

The last one does not work on my Apple Silicon machine, the first two work fine.

For Preview, you have to Force Quit it then start it (so it re-opens all the previous files) to take effect.

I needed this, because I

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Posted in Apple, Font, Lucida Console, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, macOS 13 Ventura, macOS 14 Sonoma, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Product Comparison – GL.iNet and their products I have

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/05

At the time of writing (during the Covid-19 Pandemic) the [Wayback/Archive] Product Comparison – GL.iNet contains the below products.

I got 3 of them (2 are variations of the same model) and their quality/price ratio is great, even with the prices that risen during the 2020-onwards global chip shortage.

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Posted in Ethernet, GL-AR300M, GL.iNet, GL.iNET GL-SFT1200, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Goudtekens Nederland via NU.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/02

Goudtekens (meer algemeen gehaltemerken of keurteken) in Nederland via [Wayback/Archive] Goudprijs piekt, dus tijd om je (oma’s) juwelenkist te verzilveren | Slimmer leven | NU.nl: Read the rest of this entry »

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Het tekenen van de Eindrekening en verantwoording » Zumpolle Advocaten

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/02

Voor mijn link-archief:

Het ondertekenen van de Eindrekening en verantwoording is een vorm van décharge en dat houdt in dat de oude bewindvoerder door de nieuwe bewindvoerder gevrijwaard wordt van aansprakelijkheid voor het gevoerde bewind.

[Wayback/Archive] Het tekenen van de Eindrekening en verantwoording » Zumpolle Advocaten

–jeroen

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GitHub – spotDL/spotify-downloader: Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/01

Need to check the matching algorithm of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – spotDL/spotify-downloader: Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

I wanted to download [Wayback/Archive] The Incredits – song and lyrics by Michael Giacchino | Spotify for music practice, but then found Michael listed it on his YouTube channel twice:

A bit later I also found [Wayback/Archive] The Incredits – Transcription (with original score) – YouTube with [Wayback/Archive] The Incredits Sheet Music for Piano, Trombone, Tuba, Flute piccolo & more instruments (Symphony Orchestra) | MuseScore.com

Via [Wayback/Archive] Youtube-dl supports Spotify. How to use it? : youtubedl.

--jeroen

Posted in Development, ffmpeg, Media, Media Streaming, Power User, Python, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Spotify, YouTube, youtube-dl | Leave a Comment »

ssl – Why was 398 days chosen for TLS expiration? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/01

Cool, since I switched to Let’s Encrypt a long while ago, I missed that various tools now require TLS expiration be no longer than 398 days away (and preferably even 397 days).

So I also missed the reason for that specific number of days. [Wayback/Archive] ssl – Why was 398 days chosen for TLS expiration? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] stevendesu and [Wayback/Archive] user10063)

answers it:

366+31+1 = 398 days

It equals one leap year + one month + “a little room to handle the messiness of dates.”

then posts a lot of quotes from references to the history on how that reason came to be. I have archived and listed the links below.

Most of the discussion was during a very hectic time in life: after a single sided bad accident my mentally retarded brother was in and assisting him during his recovery period, I developed cancer and had extensive treatments against it. All the more reason for missing all this:

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Posted in Communications Development, Development, Encryption, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt/certbot), Power User, Security, TCP, TLS | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

It died, but longer ladders will be there: 12ft – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/31

From 12ft – Wikipedia:

On July 17, 2025, the News Media Alliance reported that it had taken down the website.

It’s impossible to enjoy the content of online media by paying (for instance because payment systems are not compatible, but also because those media often have region blocks), so this is to longer ladders (and understanding how ladders work):

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Posted in archive.is / archive.today, Cloud, Containers, Development, Docker, HTML, HTML5, Infrastructure, Internet, InternetArchive, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LifeHacker, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development, WayBack machine, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Missing C3/C4 on IEC 60320 (IEC 320) Reference Chart – IEC 60320 Connectors & Plugs | StayOnline

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/29

I do like the [Wayback/Archive] IEC 60320 (IEC 320) Reference Chart – IEC 60320 Connectors & Plugs | StayOnline ¹, but it lacks combo C3/C4 plug/inlet:

C3 C4

From: IEC 60320 – Wikipedia (and yes: I had an old radio in my youth requiring this plug)

I bumped into the reference chart because I forgot the search term IEC 60320, and therefore searching my earlier blog posts on it ².

I did remember C13/C14 (normal appliance couplers) and C19/C20 (higher power device couplers), so I used the query [Wayback/Archive] c20 c19 amperage – Google Search giving me this table: Read the rest of this entry »

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