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Vandaag om 12:00 waren wel de kerkklokken, maar niet de sirenes te horen. Het is onduidelijk wanneer ze wel te horen zullen zijn.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06

Op [Wayback/Archive] Sirenes – Brandweer staat dit:

👉 Geen testalarm!

Op maandag 6 april (2e paasdag) en op maandag 4 mei (dodenherdenking) is er geen test-alarm. De sirene zal dan niet te horen zijn.

Ze vergeten daar de vervolgvraag: wanneer gaan de sirenes dan wel af?

Met andere woorden: wordt het uitgesteld tot een week later, of wordt het maar liefst twee maanden overgeslagen tot maandag 1 juni? Of pas als de voorraden fossiele brandstoffen op zijn en er chaos uitbreekt?

Dit is een iets aangepaste versie van mijn toot [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Vandaag om 12:00 waren wel de …” – Mastodon

--jeroen

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Pumpkin soup recipe

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06

Recipe for pumpkin soup that I got from a friend quite a while ago and further below a Dutch recipe from another friend.

I posted it a while ago in a Dutch pompoensoep thread a few years back: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Start message: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@Marjo_Sl @Dinsdal85174312 Dit is het enige pompoenrecept wat ik heb: kreeg ik ooit van een vriend. De truc is 45 minuten in de oven op 200 graden. Dan komt het vel er makkelijk af en is de pompoen ook al flink gaar, dus gaat snijden veel makkelijker. Recept over de alt-text van beide plaatjes verdeeld.”

English recipe

Text OCR-ed from image, then fixed:

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keyboard – Shortcut to apply header style 4 (and 5, 6…) – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/03

[Wayback/Archive] keyboard – Shortcut to apply header style 4 (and 5, 6…) – Ask Different (thanks [Wayback/Archive] bouke!):

Found it, although I did not expect the solution to be this simple. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Right-click the Heading 4 style in the ribbon and choose ‘Modify’ (Or through Layout > Styles > Heading 4 > Modify
  2. In the left hand bottom corner, select ‘Shortcut’
  3. Assign shortcut ⌘⌥4
  4. Repeat for Heading 5, 6…
  5. Done!

Query: [Wayback/Archive] macos microsoft word shortcut for heading levels – Google Suche

More: [Wayback/Archive] Keyboard shortcuts in Word – Microsoft Support: MacOS

--jeroen

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Super Agent – Automatic cookie consent – Chrome Web Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/03

This works in other browsers too; you can sync between them if you logon to it: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic cookie consent – Chrome Web Store

Via: [Wayback/Archive] #607: De opgesmukte maan | Tech45 Podcast

Site: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic Cookie Consent

Note: I think, but need to check, this only works for sites for which you have JavaScript enabled.

–jeroen

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Excel: operations involving the last occurence of a substring (with examples getting the current Worksheet, Workbook and file/directory path)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02

Last month I wrote about CELL function looks interesting but beware: language nightmares coming up….

There I mentioned both formulas from [Wayback/Archive] Get sheet name only – Excel formula | Exceljet and [Wayback/Archive] Insert the current Excel file name, path, or worksheet in a cell – Microsoft Support failing to deliver the expected results

an official Microsoft example of obtaining the Worksheet name which I suspected would not work on systems allowing ] in path names. And indeed it is true: that case fails on both MacOS and Windows in the same way.

Here you see the failures of both the ExcelJet function and the ones from Microsoft Support on two operating systems:

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Notes for a Bookmarklet that fixes Wayback Machine archivals of Google Search queries

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01

For a while now, after initially displaying archived Google Search results, it changes the Wayback Machine archival URL after displaying.

Examples:

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+last+delimiter
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMT
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMT

I want to write a Bookmarklet that fixes these.

There is not much in the results of

[Wayback/Archive] “GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION” “Wayback” – Google Search, but I think this happens when there is a high frequency Google Search archivals from the Wayback Machine.

–jeroen

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Sweep the Strait: Minesweeper, but in the Straitt of Hormuz (plus some tests with RawGit alternatives)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/31

Forgot to schedule this one when I saw it two weeks ago: [Wayback/Archive] Sweep the Strait.

Apart from demonstrating that Trump never had a plan, does not and will not have a plan, it is cool to see Minesweeper developed in JavaScript, HTML and CSS mapped with some geodata onto a real map of the Strait of Hormuz.

Cool idea!

It has a function Windows 3.x UI with functional menu (Game -> New Game; Help -> How to Play)

At first, I thought the original developer is this:

However, in fact the developer is:

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Hatelijk gedrag: organisaties je profiel van “communicatie per post” naar “communicatie digitaal” omzetten zonder dat je dat kunt wijzigen. Oh en selecteren van tekst uit de voorwaarden blokkeren.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/30

Het was me al een tijdje opgevallen dat ik nauwelijks meer fysieke post van Movir kreeg.

Ik dacht aan een probleem bij de post, maar het bleek erger:

Toen ik een tijd terug een on-line profiel aangemaakt had ik een PDF van mijn profiel gemaakt zodat ik wist wat er was geregisteerd.

Daarin stond “Communicatievoorkeur Per post”.

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Organising my Twitter lists: adding many accounts at once

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/30

I could not find a way to add many accounts at once to a Twitter list using the normal App or Web UI, so I did a [Wayback/Archive] twitter mass add accounts to list – Google Search

The only way to do this seems to be to use Google Chrome and install [Wayback/Archive] Better TweetDeck – Chrome Web Store combined with the old TweetDeck UI (or use and install it on any of the other supported browsers).

Note that it is basically a project shelved early 2023, so it will likely have stopped functioning before you read this.

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Instructional Video: Orchestral Bass Drum – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/27

Broadening my percussion skills I still learned a few new things from [Wayback/Archive] Instructional Video: Orchestral Bass Drum – YouTube.

I found it while looking how to make wind sounds on a concert bass drum: [Wayback/Archive] How to create wind/whooshing sound effect in orchestra : composer

Query: [Wayback/Archive] making a wind sound on a concert base drum – Google Search

Other interesting videos of percussion sound effects:

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