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Isotopp’s home sensor network

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/25

For my link archive an interesting blog post by isotopp (Kristian Köhntopp)

[Wayback] My home sensor network

I have been asked to document my home sensor network. Being married to a person with a background in web security sets boundary conditions:

  1. No cloud. We are running all services locally.
  2. No control, only metrics.

I am collecting data from a number of plugs with power meters over Wifi, using the MQTT protocol. I am also collecting data from a number of temperature sensors over Zigbee, and convert to MQTT. The MQTT data is ingested into Influx, and then read and plotted in Grafana. All of this is dockered and runs locally on an Ubuntu server.

Via [Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “For @sluongng …”

–jeroen

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Polderman: “Alsjeblieft: mijn magische sinterklaasgedichtengenerator!… “

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/21

Voor een jaar waarin corona voorbij is en we toch een Sinterklaasgedicht nodig hebben:

[Archive] Polderman, beslisbomenmaker des vaderlands 🌳 on Twitter: “Alsjeblieft: mijn magische sinterklaasgedichtengenerator!… “

Er is ook een [Wayback/Archive] groot plaatje door [Archive] Bart van der Linden on Twitter: “.@Poldermanie zat te denken, waarom zou ik Nederland niet een magische sinterklaasgedichtengenerator schenken…… “.

Via [Archive] Ionica Smeets on Twitter: “Echt jammer dat ik niet het lootje van Gert-Jan heb.… “.

–jeroen

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I switched from SysInternals’ TcpView to NirSoft’s CurrPorts (cports)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/18

I was a long time user of SysInternals‘ TcpView, but a while back I switched to NirSoft‘s CurrPorts (cports).

The main reason is that TcpView does not support filtering, which in the long past was not a problem since few Windows applications keep TCP connection open.

But nowadays with so many network dependencies, especially when using cloud services like DropBox/OneDrive/GoogleDrive/backblaze, these clutter the view a lot.

NirSoft’s CurrPorts (actually the executable is called [Wayback/Archive] cports.exe) can filter for both inclusion/exclusion on the open ports list based on many parameters (search for the “Using Filters” section in the cports.exe documentation: it’s a little bit below the version history).

The filtering syntax is extensive, and for ease of use, the context menu of the open ports list allows adding include/exclude filters on various parameters. After doing that, you can inspect the filter list to get an idea of possibilities and syntax.

For me, the easiest way to install CurrPorts is through [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CurrPorts 2.65.

I found CurrPorts when trying to figure out how to use filters in TcpView: [Wayback/Archive] tcpview filter by process – Google Search

–jeroen

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WordPress.com gets it consistently wrong, Twitter has it right: posting time stamps

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/15

UTC and time zones are both hard, especially with respect to scheduling.

The easiest would be to schedule things and store the time zone offsets together with the timestamp, just as ISO 8601 has UTC-relative time zone designators, or alternatively store the region in addition to the timestamp (which can be more user friendly).

When a scheduling system uses local time for schedules, you can expect these will adhere to your local time when the schedule becomes in effect.

So I schedule my posts for 06:00, 12:00 and 18:00 local time during weekdays.

Look what happens:

  1. [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Pro-tip for @wordpressdotcom : fix the scheduler so when you schedule in your local time zone, there is no shift during daylight saving time changes. I schedule all my posts to appear at 06:00 12:00 and 18:00 in my local time. 1/… “
  2. [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “That works fine during winter time, which is ~5 out of 12 months, for example https://t.co/banrMebk2A 2/… “
  3. [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “However 7 out of 12 months, they get posted at 07:00 13:00 and 19:00 local time, for example  3/3… “

Via [Archive.is] Colin Nederkoorn on Twitter: “Pro tip: Don’t schedule recurring meetings in UTC if you live in a place with daylight savings.… “ (which I do not agree with, see my post UTC and ISO 8601, or GTFO).

–jeroen

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Exporting your Twitter content, converting to Markdown and getting the image alt-texts (thanks @isotopp/@HBeckPDX/@weiglemc for the info and @kcgreenn/@dreamjar for the comic!)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/12

This is fine #Twitter

This is fine (illustration inspired by KC Green; creation video below)

(Edit 20221114: script for high-res images; more tweets from Jan) (Edit 20221116: hat-tip to Sam) (Edit 20221120: archiving t.co links by Michele Weigle) (Edit 20221122: added article by Johan van der Knijff) (20221128 Tapue export tool by Mike Hucka)

Time to be prepared:

The below will help you exporting your Twitter content (Tweets, DMs, media), perform some conversions on them and optionally delete (parts of) your content.

Important: keep your Twitter account afterwards (to prevent someone from creating a new account with the same handle).

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Hopefully the Archive Today domain archive.is still exists

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/11

Last year there was some tension with the .is registry: [Wayback] Archive.is blog — Why has ‘is’ been redirecting to ‘vn’ and ‘md’…

This was because of a dispute from ISNIC: [Archive.is] archive.today on Twitter: “@ISNIC is threatening again with “putting archive.is in Bad Reg Process” (whatever that means). Formal reason: complaints about snapshots of old bitcoin-scam pages.”.

Back then, archive.vn and archive.md were the redirects. If archive.is really disappears, I have a lot of dead links to fix and need to first figure out which of these domains will last most:

archive.today – Wikipedia URL list:

URL

–jeroen

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Online Image Dimension & Size Finder from URL | MyFreeOnlineTools

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/10

This was the only site I could find that can you can enter a URL and get the image dimensions.

[Wayback/Archive.is] Onlie Image Dimension & Size Finder from URL | MyFreeOnlineTools

Yes, you can use web-browser tools for this, but the responsive web usually gives you the wrong size.

And yes, it should be “Online”, not “Onlie”, but I used the web-page title which already has the error.

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Installing vscode extensions from within the Visual Studio Code terminal was way easier than I anticipated

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/09

Having missed quite a lot of Visual Studio Code releases during my metastasised rectum cancer treatment and recovery, it had become both very mature, but also very reliant of having the right extensions installed.

In that period, the extension marketplace grew remarkably, so I really wanted an easy way to install them from within the inside vscode integrated Windows Terminal.

A while ago I wrote How can you export the Visual Studio Code extension list? (via: Stack Overflow), which generated a small script with code --install-extension <extension-name> lines so I could executed those from the command-line for Visual Studio installations on new machines.

Boy was I surprised that you can just as well execute them from the [Wayback/Archive] Integrated Terminal in Visual Studio Code as well (:

When doing so, the Visual Studio Code instance around that Integrated Terminal will automatically pick up the new extension.

I found that with a [Wayback/Archive] vscode install extension from within visual studio code console – Google Search and bumping in the video also embedded below the signature: [Archive] VS Code tips — Installing extensions from the command line using –install-extension – YouTube.

The video also showed that the installation syntax can also include the version number like this:

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Posted in Console (command prompt window), Development, Power User, Software Development, vscode Visual Studio Code, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Terminal | Leave a Comment »

Assorti Wegwerpoordopjes 15x verschillende types om te testen

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/08

[WayBack] Assorti Wegwerpoordopjes 15x verschillende types om te testen

Probeer goedkoop de juiste wegwerpoordoppen voor u te vinden.

[WayBack] Easy Instructions: Dutch

Via:

--jeroen

 

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UTC and ISO 8601, or GTFO

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/08

Always schedule your meetings in UTC, and use ISO-8601 date and time notation. Because time zone conversions are hard, especially with so many daylight saving time conventions.

I want not just a “UTC or GTFO” shirt, but a “UTC and ISO-8601, or GTFO” shirt.

It means I do not agree with [Archive.is] Colin Nederkoorn on Twitter: “Pro tip: Don’t schedule recurring meetings in UTC if you live in a place with daylight savings.… “ with multi-time zone teams: having it in UTC will balance out the DST changes over the teams.

Some more relevant Tweets that triggered me writing this post:

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