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Please vote for the LEGO Turing Machine at LEGO ideas

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28

Last year, a third LEGO Turing Machine that I know of was developed, 12 years after the second one (details below) developed during the 2012 Alan Turing Year and a first one in 2009 (see also below), and this time submitted at LEGO ideas.

[Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer

Please vote for it, as it will be a great gift not just for computing lovers but also as a learning opportunities.

Links:

Via

All three machines are cool devices, so lets continue with…

Second LEGO Turing Machine

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javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28

TL;DR: you can force opening a new Window over a new Tab, but not the other way around.

Background information: [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow.

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

Design kledingrek SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/27

[Wayback/Archive] Design kledingrek SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY

Design kledingrekgrek van het merk SOOPL rijdt vanwege de grote wielen stabiel op ieder wegdek en over iedere drempel. De SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY is stabiel en kan eenvoudig (volledig) worden in- en uitgeklapt en heeft daarnaast een bijzonder fraai uiterlijk. De stevige kunststof verbindingen en aluminium buizen zorgen voor een relatief laag gewicht. De grote massieve wielen zijn voorzien van wielkasten en spatborden zodat de kleding niet vies wordt wanneer u in de regen rijdt. Daarnaast is het rek voorzien van uitschijfbare stangen aan de bovenzijde zodat de hangcapaciteit kan worden vergroot. De bodem is voorzien van een stoffen mat ter bescherming van kleding. De afmetingen van het SOOPL kledingrek zijn 90cm lang, 60cm diep en 160cm hoog. Het totale gewicht bedraagd 11,5 kg.
Levertijd: 1-2 werkdagen

Artikelnummer:

ZB1234
Speciale prijs € 411,28 € 339,90 € 422,23

Fabrikant:

Tweedehands: [Wayback/Archive] ≥ Soopl reis trolley kledingrek fashion — Kledingrekken — Marktplaats

Query: [Wayback/Archive] Soopl kledingrek – Sök på Google

--jeroen

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Luis ✨ on Twitter: “Mensen zeggen wel eens dat internationaal met de trein reizen alleen is weggelegd voor mensen met veel geld, maar dat klopt niet helemaal. Draadje met goedkope bestemmingen met prijzen en hoe ze te boeken, allemaal voor in augustus 🧵”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/27

Voor mijn link-archief (het concept werkt nog steeds): [Wayback/Archive] Luis ✨ on Twitter: “Mensen zeggen wel eens dat internationaal met de trein reizen alleen is weggelegd voor mensen met veel geld, maar dat klopt niet helemaal. Draadje met goedkope bestemmingen met prijzen en hoe ze te boeken, allemaal voor in augustus 🧵”

Als draad: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @LuisHeemstra on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

--jeroen

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Any YouTube ID is a YouTube ID which means you can use any shorts ID and music ID to watch as a YouTube URL (adding functionality shorts and music URLs lack)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/24

YouTube has diversified its content separating out YouTube Shorts and YouTube Music.

The main YouTube viewing experience has a few advantages over the other two experiences:

  1. content can be monetised
  2. content can arranged into lists (including Watch Later)
  3. auto-play can be turned off

All below links have the same ID, but the ones with checkmarks can use all the above features whereas the ones with crosses cannot.

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Applesoft BASIC in JavaScript

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23

Not my first BASIC (which was on calculators: The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)), but the first BASIC on a machine with a real keyboard was Applesoft BASIC on an Apple II:

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Via Kevin Beaumont: DEIAtruth@opm.gov, a perfect email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23

Quoting [Wayback/Archive] Kevin Beaumont: “The US Government has issued a…” – Cyberplace

The US Government has issued an executive order demanding employees snitch on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility initiatives by emailing: DEIAtruth@opm.gov

Just in case you wanted an email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.

--jeroen

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Three dashes or a rendered horizontal table at the top of your GitHub markdown document? That’s YAML metadata

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22

Many Markdown documents on GitHub have three dashes (---) at the top (and rendered a horizontal table displays).

I didn’t know this markdown construct, and it appears to be GitHub specific: it is a way to render YAML metadata (for instance used while blogging).

So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] three dashes table markdown – Google Search and found [Wayback/Archive] Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents | The GitHub Blog.

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Posted in Blogging, Configuration Management, Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, YAML | Leave a Comment »

Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21

Fork of a repository that shows how to do this with normal Homebrew installs [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub has my notes to do a similar thing with Homebrew cask installs.

Fork of: [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub.

TODO: check notes to ensure they really work on a different system and were not a lucky shot.

Notes:

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XKCD to ExplainXKCD Bookmarklet

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21

Sometimes the XKCD episodes are hard to get, so I wanted a Bookmarklet to navigate to [Wayback/Archive] explain xkcd.

Here is the regular expression to change the domain name part if it matches: [Wayback/Archive] regex101: build, test, and debug regex: VI34VW with this generated sed code:

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