Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/04
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Moe, voldaan en onder de paracetamol ben ik dankbaar dat @CrescendoSassem me, ondanks mijn beperkingen, 2 maanden terug vroeg een percussieplek in te vullen.
Afgelopen zaterdag in totaal 4 uur met ze op het podium geweest met Shaffy & Brass.
Het ging boven verwachting.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/03
Very useful Web Browser extensions (which you can also use in Edge, see [Wayback/Archive] Add, turn off, or remove extensions in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support).
Via [Wayback/Archive] 𝚑𝚎𝚗𝚔 𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚜𝚜 on X: “Sick of seeing the web just locally when using Google? Use Google Search location changer to end this problem. Chrome: … Firefox: …”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/03
A while ago, I bumped into a page that at first thought was using the Century Gothic font, later the Futura (which has many digitisations), Twentieth Century, and ITC Avant Garde fonts, but instead of older, it was newer: it was a new font I had not seen yet (it’s been quite a few decades I have been outside the font industry).
It’s [Wayback/Archive.is] Poppins, is open source ([Wayback/Archive.is] itfoundry/Poppins: Poppins, a Devanagari + Latin family for Google Fonts.) and has both Latin and Devanagari scripts.
The initial confusion isn’t a coincidence, as Poppins builds on the geometric sans serif typefaces that evolved from 1920’s modernism in Europe.
I love it!
From the git repository:
During the 1920s, Central European type foundries joined the modernists movements in art and design. Modernism was truly international in scope; only three years after the founding of the German Bauhaus school, several of its painting instructors were already exhibiting their work in Calcutta.
Geometric sans serif typefaces have been a popular design element ever since these actors took to the world’s stage. Poppins is one of the newest comer to this long tradition. An open source family supporting both Devanagari and Latin, this typeface is an internationalist take on the geometric sans genre. Many of the Latin glyphs — the ampersand, for instance — are far more constructed and rationalist than in previously released geometric typefaces. Poppins’s Devanagari design is particularly new. It is likely the first-ever large Devanagari family in this style that has been brought to market.
The Poppins family includes five weights, from Light through Bold. Each font includes 1014 glyphs, including all of the unique conjunct forms necessary for typesetting Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, etc. Just like the Latin glyphs, the Devanagari forms in Poppins are based pure geometry (particularly circles). Poppins’s letters are practically monolinear, although optical corrections have been applied to stroke joints where necessary, to maintain an even colour in text. The Devanagari base character height and the Latin ascender height are equal; Latin capital letters are shorter than the Devanagari characters, and the Latin x-height is set rather high.
The Devanagari glyphs in Poppins were designed by Ninad Kale. The Latin is from Jonny Pinhorn. The Indian Type Foundry first published Poppins in 2014.
Picture of the archived [Wayback/Archive.is] Poppins – Google Fonts page:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/31
Having been a avid uBlock Origin user since when it came out in 2014 even before both Adblock and Adblock Plus headed over to the dark side.
I need to check out if [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin Lite is good enough now that Google is phasing out Manifest V2 (on which uBlock Origin and other ad blockers depend to provide full functionality).
When it isn’t, I might switch to Firefox or Brave as it should still support Manifest V2 as per
Firefox for instance has some drawbacks with input handling when editing WordPress posts which Chromium based web-browsers (including Brave) don’t have.
Via:
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/31
De meeste tips liggen voor de hand, maar toch fijn om ze op een rijtje te hebben: [Wayback/Archive] Verpakkingtips – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/31
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Comparison of UPS Topologies: Line-interactive vs Online vs Offline | FS Community
The most important bits:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/30
For my link archive as this was a cool idea, but for many their device didn’t last that long:
[Wayback/Archive] ElectricRCAircraftGuy/eRCaGuy_ComputaPranksta_Support: Public support for my “Computa Pranksta” mouse jiggler device I sell on Amazon and elsewhere.
This device is a mouse jiggler. It keeps your computer awake. It can also be used to have some fun with your friends (please don’t take it too far–it’s meant to be used in good, friendly gest–not for any type of malicious purposes).
Notes:
Links on those USB Mouse Jigglers below, but first some links on the Computa Pranksta:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/29
I have a hard time remembering all those ImageMagick parameters, so I was glad that Stephan posted this: [Wayback/A] Processing a Number of Image Files – Seaside Testing
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Stephan Kämper on Twitter: “Another note to self: How I can resize image files using @ImageMagick. ➙ …”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/28
No matter if it has switched to AI or not, Googl Search will show the “not a pipe” image first.
[Wayback/Archive] William Gerrard on X: “Google is so broken that the first image it gave me for a pipe is something that is not a pipe 🙄 “
[Wayback/Archive] GOIFP6casAAhOd_.jpg (1170×1085)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/28
Some suggestions in the thread started by [Archive.is] Stefanie Posavec on Twitter: “hey chart obsessives (yeah you know who are): what’s your fave most comprehensive library of all charts ever online atm? thanks in advance.”
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 