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How to Install Node.js and NPM on a Mac

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/03

Link archival: [WayBack] How to Install Node.js and NPM on a Mac:

In this article, I’ll take you through the process of installing Node.js and NPM on a Mac using Homebrew.

TL;DR

  1. Ensure you have installed homebrew.
  2. Run brew install node.

–jeroen

 

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Your Yearly Reminder That You Can DIY a Cheap, Easy Window De-Icer

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/02

Many regions in the Northern Hemisphere turn colder over the next weeks..months, so: [Archive.is] Your Yearly Reminder That You Can DIY a Cheap, Easy Window De-Icer:

  1. Mix these
    • 2/3 of Isopropyl alcohol (often called rubbing alcohol in the USA, but outside there it’s better known as 2-propanol, propan-2-ol or isopropanol)
    • 1/3 of water
  2. Put in two spray bottles: one in your car, one in your house

–jeroen

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BPM Database

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/30

Cool way of finding BPM for (or submitting) a song or artist: [WayBack] Source: BPM Database.

Found when I was curious how close these were:

–jeroen

 

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PSA: If your Google Opinions app stopped sending you… • r/Android

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/30

In case it still doesn’t work when I’ve been in the USA (or/and back), then I need to try the things below.

It used to work both in the USA and in The Netherlands.

What I’ve tried so far is this:

  • uninstall the app
  • clear all application data
  • install the app
  • run it again

So far still very few surveys.

–jeroen

PSA: If your Google Opinions app stopped sending you surveys, check the app’s location settings.
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Getting Things Done with Google – Macadamian

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/30

Following the template of Getting Things Done, Macadamian project manager Andrea Carbert details how she makes sure no commitment slips through the cracks.

Source: [WayBack] Getting Things Done with Google – Macadamian

Via: [WayBack] Andrea wrote a great piece on ##gtd Getting Things Done with Google Products – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

 

 

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Links for another crazy idea: superimpose lane availability indicators on Google Maps

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/29

ANWB can superimpose the lane availability indicators on their internap maps software.

Some links so I won’t forget:

–jeroen

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How to Update All Your Ruby Gems At Once | Life, the Universe, and Everything

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/26

This looks smart

gem update `gem list | cut -d ' ' -f 1`

From: [WayBack] How to Update All Your Ruby Gems At Once | Life, the Universe, and Everything

Though on the bash prompt, it works fine on Mac OS X / OS X / macOS / …, it does not work nice as an alias.

You can get it to work with difficult escaping (or nesting).

But it is easier to escape this:

gem update $(gem list | cut -d ' ' -f 1)

Escaped, it comes down to:

alias "gem-update-all=gem update \$(gem list | cut -d ' ' -f 1)"

Based on:

–jeroen

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There are still sites limiting password lengt to low values like 20 or 15. Don’t!

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/26

There are still sites limiting password lengt to low values like 20 or 15. Don’t!

The why at [WayBack] Implement Proper Password Strength Controls: Password Length has been in place since October 2012, since when cracking passwords has become way faster, so risk at length 20 back then is now a risk at something like length 40.

Password Length

Longer passwords provide a greater combination of characters and consequently make it more difficult for an attacker to guess.

  • Minimum length of the passwords should be enforced by the application.
    • Passwords shorter than 10 characters are considered to be weak (NIST SP800-132).

While minimum length enforcement may cause problems with memorizing passwords among some users, applications should encourage them to set passphrases (sentences or combination of words) that can be much longer than typical passwords and yet much easier to remember.

  • Maximum password length should not be set too low, as it will prevent users from creating passphrases. Typical maximum length is 128 characters.
    • Passphrases shorter than 20 characters are usually considered weak if they only consist of lower case Latin characters.

–jeroen

via:

 

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Herbie Mann – Push Push 1971

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/26

I think I got the link to this song via Jan Wildeboer. It’s awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR64lF2agbM – Herbie Mann – Push Push 1971

–jeroen

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Help:Links – MediaWiki

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/23

Since I needed to know how to formulate external hyperlinks on a Wiki page: [WayBack] Help:Links – MediaWiki.

Too many options, not even counting other sections on that page I did not quote, so I went for the first.

To create an external link, usually to a page at a different website, enclose the URL followed by space and the link text in single square brackets (see examples below). When you save or preview the page, you will see a link rendered slightly differently than an internal wikilink. It may be a different color and/or be followed by an arrow icon to show that it may lead to another site.

Description You type You get
External link with specified link text 
[https://mediawiki.org MediaWiki]
 MediaWiki
Numbered external link 
[https://mediawiki.org]

This is what happens if you omit the link text. Multiple links of this type on the same page are numbered sequentially.

 [1]
Bare external link 
https://mediawiki.org

URLs beginning with “http://” and “https://” are automatically linked, even when no brackets are used.

 https://mediawiki.org
Avoiding auto-linked URLs 
<nowiki>https://mediawiki.org</nowiki>
 https://mediawiki.org
Protocol-relativeexternal link 
[//en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]

[//en.wikipedia.org //en.wikipedia.org]

The link will be HTTP or HTTPS depending on the protocol of the page currently being viewed (which could be different for different users). This is only supported inside of square brackets [ ]. Using “//en.wikipedia.org” by itself does not result in a link.

 Wikipedia

//en.wikipedia.org
External link to the current server 
https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pagename
 https://www.mediawiki.org/pagename
External link to other host passing the pagename 
https://google.com/search?q={{PAGENAMEE}}

See also: URL encoded page names, PAGENAMEE encoding

 https://google.com/search?q=Links
Mailto link 
[mailto:info@example.org email me]
 email me
Mailto named with subject line and body 
[mailto:info@example.org?Subject=URL%20Encoded%20Subject&body=Body%20Text info]
 info
Custom URI 
[skype:echo123 call me]

Any URI you wish to add needs to be first declared through $wgUrlProtocols. (This example is not enabled on Mediawiki.org)

 [skype:echo123 call me]
External links with file-type icons 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.avi video]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ogg sound]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.pdf document]

See External link icons for currently supported icons and extensions. Note that this wiki is not set up to use such icons.

 video

sound

document

–jeroen.

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