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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/11
I had speedtest-cli running on MacOS and various Linux machines, but not yet on Windows (see for instance my post Ubuntu: Fixing the myserious “Failed to stop apt-daily.timer: Connection timed out”).
[Wayback/Archive] Install and Test Internet Speed with Speedtest CLI Command Line – NEXTOFWINDOWS.COM reminded me there is a Speedtest CLI for Windows download at at [Wayback/Archive] Speedtest CLI: Internet speed test for the command line, but I am a an automation/scripting/devops person, so luckily there are also [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Speedtest by Ookla (don’t get [Wayback/Archive] Ookla.Speedtest download, as that is the GUI version).
Both the Chocolatey and winget packages are named the same, so that is quite confusing. This is how I have set them apart:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/14
I need to try [Wayback/Archive] Live Share – Visual Studio Marketplace and get a feel for how it is to live share code: is it a way of working that fits me well?
This installs Live Share for Visual Studio Code:
code --install-extension MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare
code --install-extension MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare-pack
The second extension is for [Wayback/Archive] Live Share Extension Pack – Visual Studio Marketplace, which got released about a year after the first one.
Live Share was introduced in 2017, a period when most of my work was outside the Visual Studio realm, Visual Studio Code was just starting to gain momentum over Atom (which was mul multi-platform editor of choice back then; I wrote about it in a few blog posts), and my then main development environment did not allow live sharing at all. so I missed all this (:
For my reading list:
Uses search queries:
- [Wayback/Archive] markdown online co-editing – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] visual studio code collaborative editing – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] vscode live share – Google Search
The first query was my initial goal to accomplish, but I rather have the markdown files available off-line, so these did not help:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/21
If you are still on Atom, try to see if other cross platform open source editors suit your needs.
Myself, I have moved to Visual Studio Code quite some time ago as, though based on Electron – the core of Atom, it is way faster and much better supported than Atom.
The official announcement is at [Wayback/Archive] Sunsetting Atom | The GitHub Blog.
Various sites reported it in different phrasings:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/03
I needed to search for IBAN numbers in documents and used this regular expression: [a-zA-Z]{2}[0-9]{2} ?[a-zA-Z0-9]{4} ?[0-9]{4} ?[0-9]{4} ?[0-9]{2} which supports the usual optional whitespace like in NL12 INGB 0345 6789 01.
It is based on a nice list with table of Notepad++ RegEx character classes supported at [Wayback] Searching | Notepad++ User Manual:
Character Classes
[set] ⇒ This indicates a set of characters, for example, [abc] means any of the literal characters a, b or c. You can also use ranges by doing a hyphen between characters, for example [a-z] for any character from a to z. You can use a collating sequence in character ranges, like in [[.ch.]-[.ll.]] (these are collating sequence in Spanish).[^set] ⇒ The complement of the characters in the set. For example, [^A-Za-z] means any character except an alphabetic character. Care should be taken with a complement list, as regular expressions are always multi-line, and hence [^ABC]* will match until the first A, B or C (or a, b or c if match case is off), including any newline characters. To confine the search to a single line, include the newline characters in the exception list, e.g. [^ABC\r\n].
Please note that the complement of a character set is often many more characters than you expect: (?-s)[^x]+ will match 1 or more instances of any non-x character, including newlines: the (?-s) search modifier turns off “dot matches newlines”, but the [^x] is not a dot ., so that class is still allowed to match newlines.
[[:name:]] or [[:☒:]] ⇒ The whole character class named name. For many, there is also a single-letter “short” class name, ☒. Please note: the [:name:] and [:☒:] must be inside a character class [...] to have their special meaning.
| short |
full name |
description |
equivalent character class |
|
alnum |
letters and digits |
|
|
alpha |
letters |
|
h |
blank |
spacing which is not a line terminator |
[\t\x20\xA0] |
|
cntrl |
control characters |
[\x00-\x1F\x7F\x81\x8D\x8F\x90\x9D] |
d |
digit |
digits |
|
|
graph |
graphical character, so essentially any character except for control chars, \0x7F, \x80 |
|
l |
lower |
lowercase letters |
|
|
print |
printable characters |
[\s[:graph:]] |
|
punct |
punctuation characters |
[!"#$%&'()*+,\-./:;<=>?@\[\\\]^_{ |
s |
space |
whitespace (word or line separator) |
[\t\n\x0B\f\r\x20\x85\xA0\x{2028}\x{2029}] |
u |
upper |
uppercase letters |
|
|
unicode |
any character with code point above 255 |
[\x{0100}-\x{FFFF}] |
w |
word |
word characters |
[_\d\l\u] |
|
xdigit |
hexadecimal digits |
[0-9A-Fa-f] |
Note that letters include any unicode letters (ASCII letters, accented letters, and letters from a variety of other writing systems); digits include ASCII numeric digits, and anything else in Unicode that’s classified as a digit (like superscript numbers ¹²³…).
Note that those character class names may be written in upper or lower case without changing the results. So [[:alnum:]] is the same as [[:ALNUM:]] or the mixed-case [[:AlNuM:]].
As stated earlier, the [:name:] and [:☒:] (note the single brackets) must be a part of a surrounding character class. However, you may combine them inside one character class, such as [_[:d:]x[:upper:]=], which is a character class that would match any digit, any uppercase, the lowercase x, and the literal _ and = characters. These named classes won’t always appear with the double brackets, but they will always be inside of a character class.
If the [:name:] or [:☒:] are accidentally not contained inside a surrounding character class, they will lose their special meaning. For example, [:upper:] is the character class matching :, u, p, e, and r; whereas [[:upper:]] is similar to [A-Z] (plus other unicode uppercase letters)
[^[:name:]] or [^[:☒:]] ⇒ The complement of character class named name or ☒ (matching anything not in that named class). This uses the same long names, short names, and rules as mentioned in the previous description.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/27
A few links for my link archive, as I often edit XML files (usually with different extensions than .xml, because historic choices that software development vendors make, which makes it way harder to tell editors “yes, this too is XML).
- Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio
- [WayBack] XPath Tools – Visual Studio Marketplace: Extension for Visual Studio – Run XPaths and XPath functions. Browse through results at the click of a button.Track and copy XPaths incl. XML namespaces in various formats, taking the hassle out of complex documents
- Via:
- Notepad++ (note you have to install the plugin as Administrator, and restart Notepad++ to take effect)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/02/03
Sometimes I forget the choco install mnemonics for various tools, so here is a small list below.
Of course you have to start with an administrative command prompt, and have a basic Chocolatey Installation in place.
If you want to clean cruft:
choco install --yes choco-cleaner
Basic install:
choco install --yes 7zip
choco install --yes everything
choco install --yes notepadplusplus
choco install --yes beyondcompare
choco install --yes git.install --params "/GitAndUnixToolsOnPath /NoGitLfs /SChannel /NoAutoCrlf /WindowsTerminal"
choco install --yes hg
choco install --yes sourcetree
choco install --yes sysinternals
For VMs (pic one):
choco install --yes vmware-tools
choco install --yes virtio-drivers
For browsing (not sure yet about Chrome as that one has a non-admin installer as well):
choco install --yes firefox
For file transfer (though be aware that some versions of Filezilla contained adware):
choco install --yes filezilla
choco install --yes winscp
For coding:
choco install --yes vscode
choco install --yes atom
For SQL server:
choco install --yes sql-server-management-studio
For web development / power user:
choco install --yes fiddler
For SOAP and REST:
choco install --yes soapui
If you don’t like manually downloading SequoiaView at gist.github.com/jpluimers/b0df9c2dba49010454ca6df406bc5f3d (e8efd031d667de8a1808d6ea73548d77949e7864.zip):
choco install --yes windirstat
For drawing, image manipulation (paint.net last, as it needs a UI action):
choco install --yes gimp
choco install --yes imagemagick
choco install --yes paint.net
For ISO image mounting in pre Windows 10:
choco install --yes wincdemu
For hard disk management:
choco install --yes hdtune
choco install --yes seatools
choco install --yes speedfan
For Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners (not sure yet this includes PDF support):
choco install --yes scansnapmanager
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/12
This and built-in markdown support made the switch to Visual Studio code from Atom.io so much easier: [WayBack] PlantUML – Visual Studio Marketplace.
Atom.io was already on my list of tools to say good bye to: though a good project to show the versatility of the Electron Framework, over time – like Google Chrome – it had become a memory and CPU hog and a drag to use and update.
Integrating debuggers and other parts of the development life cycle involved too much fuzz, for which Visual Studio code (also known as vscode) was much easier from the start.
Probably Visual Studio code did not suffer from what the Dutch call Law of the handicap of a head start: it is much more responsive and versatile than Atom.io. Also the plugins – despite having come to the market later – feel way more mature in Visual Studio code than Atom.io.
Finally, the PlantUML support extension for vscode is so much nicer than in Atom.io, it for instance supports live updating and in addition to local rendering, rendering through a PlantUML server (see [WayBack] GitHub – plantuml/plantuml-server: PlantUML Online Server).
Source code is at [WayBack] GitHub – qjebbs/vscode-plantuml: Rich PlantUML support for Visual Studio Code.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/27
[WayBack] Omg this is awesome. Synchronize settings etc between Atom installs!https://atom.io/packages/sync-settings#atomio – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
I revisited this and it’s awesome.
Note that – as usual – when you sync settings for packages that have external dependencies, these dependencies depend on your platform of choice.
Which means that if for instance depend on Pandoc and you use both a Mac and Windows, you need Pandoc installations plus all dependencies on those platforms before syncing your settings.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/20
It’s a bit hard to copy the error messages that only last a second or so, but I finally managed to:
File 0Project 0No Issues20170204.rst1:1
LF19 L | 168 W | 2329 CUTF-8reStructuredTextmaster1
[pandoc-convert]
Command failed: /usr/local/bin/pandoc --standalone --to=latex --output=/Users/jeroenp/20170204.rst.pdf /Users/jeroenp/20170204.rst pandoc: pdflatex not found. pdflatex is needed for pdf output.
In order to have pdflatex on my Mac OS X installation, I had to do this:
brew install Caskroom/cask/mactex
This will install pdflatex as
/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/15
When you get a Window like this upon Atom.io start, and starting to report a bug, they guide you to a “start Atom in safe mode first, then try to disable all packages to sort out if it’s a package issue” and point to [WayBack] Debugging: using safe mode.
The problem here is that when you start Atom in safe mode (from the console using atom --safe) then in the preferences you cannot disable packages: clicking on the “Disable” button has absolutely no effect.
This was with atom --version
atom --version
Atom : 1.12.8
Electron: 1.3.13
Chrome : 52.0.2743.82
Node : 6.5.0
I worked around this by editing ~/.atom/config.cson as that already contained a section like this:
core:
disabledPackages: [
"nav-panel"
]
So I wrote a poor-mans little script that generated the inner portion of that block:
pushd ~/.atom && ls -1d packages/*/ | sed 's/packages\// "/g' | sed 's/\//"/g' && popd
which got me this nice list:
"atom-beautify"
"atom-html-preview"
"atom-keyboard-macros"
"atom-wrap-in-tag"
"autocomplete-xml"
"broadcast"
"close-tags"
"color-picker"
"counter"
"emmet"
"export-html"
"file-icons"
"git-plus"
"language-batch"
"language-bbcode"
"language-innosetup"
"language-pascal"
"language-plantuml"
"language-restructuredtext"
"language-routeros-script"
"linter"
"nav-panel-plus"
"nav-panel"
"omnisharp-atom"
"pandoc-convert"
"plantuml-preview"
"print-atom"
"rot13"
"rst-preview-pandoc"
"sort-lines"
"sync-settings"
"tabs-to-spaces"
"xml-formatter"
"xml-tools"
From there, I did a binary search for the offending package: broadcast so I’ve filed an issue there.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 