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Aan- en uittrekhulp Doff N’ Donner, voor het aan- en uittrekken van steunkousen | Aantrekhulp voor sokken/panty’s en steunkousen | Winkel met Zorg

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/26

[Wayback/Archive] Aan- en uittrekhulp Doff N’ Donner, voor het aan- en uittrekken van steunkousen | Aantrekhulp voor sokken/panty’s en steunkousen | Winkel met Zorg

Aan- en uittrekhulp voor steunkousen (alle typen elastische kousen), de Doff N’ Donner ook wel Donner genoemd. De Donner is een uniek hulpmiddel om alle typen compressiekousen van alle drukklassen in alle maten snel en comfortabel aan en uit te trekken.

Video’s:

Deze kan zonder handschoenen gebruikt worden.

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Figuring out what domains/IPs to whitelist for installing/updating winget sources and packages

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/25

A few years ago I asked for some help figuring out what to whitelist so that winget can update its sources and install packages.

This is how I found out.

The queste started with [Wayback/Archive] Need help trying to figure out what domains/IPs to whitelist for installing packages · Discussion #2304 · microsoft/winget-cli

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Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Firewall, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, winget | Leave a Comment »

Injection Travel Kit by frozenfoxx | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/23

https://web.archive.org/web/20240712145919if_/https://archive.is/MTJf5/b31c22e9bbd617dc60c3203f66f4f167d3ff8066.webpThis is kewl: [Wayback/Archive] Injection Travel Kit by frozenfoxx | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Travel case for an injection kit. Includes spaces for draw and injection needles, syringes, vial, wipes, and bandages

Not just because they are injection kits, but because they form a base for other travel cases like one mentioned in the [Wayback/Archive] Comments: Injection Travel Kit by frozenfoxx | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Would it be possible to make this with a space for a horizontal storage for a similar sized via, and a 1-2mL ampule storage? The space could even be taken from one of the needle spaces, maybe.

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Need to give this some thought: Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/23

Sometimes you need a relatively low-tech solution for updating.

I will need to give this some thought: [Wayback/Archive] Poor Man’s Auto Update. by Chris Bensen | by Chris Bensen | Jun, 2022 | Medium

Back then I posted some edits on Twitter which by now should be reflected in the script and GitHub repository at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/PoorManAutoUpdate.md at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs (with script at [Wayback/Archive] chris-blogs/updater.sh at main · chrisbensen/chris-blogs)

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, cron, Development, Hardware Development, Linux, Power User, Python, Raspberry Pi, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Reusing the motors and magnets of your old hard drives

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/22

Likely not suited for drones (as the motors are too heavy and have too high RPM), but maybe for other usage: [Wayback/Archive] Unlock the Potential of Your Old Hard Drives: Build a Drone Engine! – YouTube.

The motors do require extra controller logic, as they are BLDC (brushless DC), see for instance:

The other reason I like the video is that it shows how easy it is to salvage parts of your HDD. This comment is golden:

The magnets for the actuator are neodymium! Fun to play with!

--jeroen

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Great tip by Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/22

Reminder to check out the tools I use so I can go [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “Colour coding all my meetings – seriously I don’t know why I held off for so long, it made my calendar so much easier to read”

This is the scheme that Jen uses: [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman on Twitter: “@melvinjoosten Yeah – I have a lot of recurring meetings, so I use one colour for 1-1s, one colour for big team meetings, and one colour for office hours. It makes it a lot easier to spot the one off meetings which have been added to my calendar (which I leave the default colour)”

or in list form, differentiate between:

  • one-on-one
  • big team
  • office hours
  • default (for events added by others)

–jeroen

Posted in Google, GoogleCalendar, LifeHacker, Office, Outlook, Power User | Leave a Comment »

SIEMENS – HB86P575 – Compacte bakoven met magnetron

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/19

Voor mijn ling archief wanneer er link root gaat plaatsvinden: [Wayback/Archive] SIEMENS – HB86P575 – Compacte bakoven met magnetron

Handleidingen:

Bekende problemen onder:

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@BritisAirwaySup: a parody account on Webcare teams always wanting to directly move to private DM conversation and sharing full privacy details

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/18

Too bad many webcare / social media corporate accounts respond to every question (even ones of importance to the general public) along these lines:

we extremely apologize for the challenge encountered, customer relations haven’t forgotten about you, it wasn’t our intention, kindly follow back, share full names, reachable WhatsApp number via DM, so we can assist further

[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @BritisAirwaySup on Thread Reader App

Via a quote tweet of [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @mysk_co on Thread Reader App

When you join a Wi-Fi network that shows a captive portal on the iPhone, iOS opens the captive portal in a Safari web view regardless of which default browser you’ve chosen.

This little experiment implements a captive portal that detects the browser. Brave was the default browser, but iOS opened the captive portal in Safari. The second screenshot shows what this sample website displays if opened with Brave.

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On my list of tools to try: zhot and tweetzhot (both by Rop Gongrijp and based on puppeteer) to create browser screenshots from the terminal

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/17

The feature reminds me on how archive.today saves content.

Both the zhot and tweetzhot repositories are on my list of tools to try. They might make writing blog posts easier.

They are both based on [Wayback/Archive] puppeteer/puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node.js API

Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. Puppeteer runs headless by default, but can be configured to run full (non-headless) Chrome or Chromium.

It demonstrates headless browser usage and can for instance:

  • Generate screenshots and PDFs of pages.
  • Crawl a SPA (Single-Page Application) and generate pre-rendered content (i.e. “SSR” (Server-Side Rendering)).
  • Automate form submission, UI testing, keyboard input, etc.
  • Create an up-to-date, automated testing environment. Run your tests directly in the latest version of Chrome using the latest JavaScript and browser features.
  • Capture a timeline trace of your site to help diagnose performance issues.
  • Test Chrome Extensions.

Note any headless browser will have some trouble rendering single-page applications.

Repositories:

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

s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/16

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket

One reason is archival of books. Even (or maybe especially) in IT, books already have historic meaning especially in narrower fields where they often are not available in the Internet Archive or have been scanned by Google Books.

Via/related:

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Posted in Amazon S3, AWS Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Apps, Development, Infrastructure, Internet, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »