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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/09
Some entries for my inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] Alex’s Bookmarklets – New Twitter RSS Bookmarklet, Font Bookmarklet
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/07
I tried these:
For me, the last works best and has its configuration page at moz-extension://4ea87baa-23b8-4b4a-bd88-7a6bc4b8e442/cookies.html?parent_url=
The first starts with an intimidating query screen without clear indication on what each query option means nor how to perform deletes on the returned cookies.
I did not yet try 4.2 stars [Wayback/Archive] Cookie-Editor – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Query: [Wayback/Archive] firefox cookie manager – Google Suche
Note: my usual starting point is moz-extension://4ea87baa-23b8-4b4a-bd88-7a6bc4b8e442/cookies.html?parent_url=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F*%2F as that will select cookies on web.archive.org where lots of archived sites pollute that domain with cookies. This inevitably causes the Wayback Machine save page to error out.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/25
The manual process of getting back to the earliest commit of a GitHub repository is easy for small repositories, but for a large one it is very tedious.
TL;DR: there are various ways, but the easiest was the INIT Bookmarklet below.
Note: 2 weeks before the scheduled post made it to the front of the queue, I got a report¹ that it started to fail. Here it still works.
It’s hard to debug because of the functional programming approach taken.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/19
Many web-sites and password managers have a strength indicator built-in.
This is a really good example (with open source JavaScript code!) of one: [Wayback/Archive] zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation | USENIX
Be aware though that it stores a plain text file named passwords.txt on your system (this seems to confuse some users, especially when their password is in it).
Homans password behaviour does not change much over time, so this half hour 2016 presentation on it is still current: [Wayback/Archive] USENIX Security ’16 – zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation – YouTube for which you can download:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/16
Trying to trim down excessive CPU usage of my web browsers, and lessen the risk of intrusion, I experimented with globally disabling JavaScript and only enabling it on sites where it adds value to me.
That is possible (see below), but immediately showed a big side effect: Bookmarklets will not work on sites that have JavaScript disabled.
Disabling JavaScript globally only allows Bookmarklets on sites where you have enabled JavaScript. Not the situation I hoped for (:
I’ll try it for a while though.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/14
A few years back I bumped in this cool [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @asadotzler on Thread Reader App on early Firefox history (from before it was called Phoenix or Firebird, heck from before Phoenix was created!).
It is important to keep telling these bits of history as they are fundamental to understand the Web Browser landscape as it is now.
Great material that complements Wikipedia articles like these:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/13
For my reading list, the various responses to [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “is there an easy way (in the browser, at runtime) to generate a call graph of which functions called which other functions in a javascript program?”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/09
The delete trick below not just works for the Chrome Omnibox, but for any autocomplete list in Chrome.
[Wayback/Archive] How to remove an entry from Chrome’s Remembered URLs from the url bar? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] cmcculloh, [Wayback/Archive] Gaff and [Wayback/Archive] User 张 源 – Super User):
Q
I’ve got a URL in Chrome “local.mysite.com” that autopopulates when I start typing “local.my” into the URL bar.Note that this URL DOES NOT EXIST in my browser history (at chrome://history/#e=1&p=0) because it isn’t a real site and therefore couldn’t ever be successfully visited and therefore never shows up in my history.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/02
Quite a while ago, Chrome moved from a structure based on “Current Session“, “Current Tabs“, “Last Session” and “Last Tabs” into “Session_#################” and “Tabs_#################” stored in a “Sessions” folder (and similar migrations for other state and configuration files).
The numbers in the “Session_*” and “Tabs_*” files are time stamps of those sessions, for instance one needs to figure out what the “13310808970819630” in “Session_13310808970819630” and “Session_13310808970819630” means.
Lot’s of web-pages with tips and tricks around the old structures are still around, often surfacing high in Google Search results.
I was interested in a particular trick to export Google Chrome browsing history and had a hard time figuring out the easiest solution.
Posted in Apple, Batch-Files, Chrome, Chrome, Database Development, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, NirSoft, Polyglot, Power User, Scripting, SQLite, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Tagged: define | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/29
I found [Wayback/Archive] DB Browser for SQLite via [Wayback/Archive] In z’n leren frakske | Tech45 Podcast (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Toon Van de Putte (@toonvandeputte)!).
It is a standalone reasonably sized database browser for the single-process SQLite database (which is itself a file storage replacement for highly table structured data, see below).
With SQLite gaining more and more popularity in standalone application usage (you can even host it inside a web browser session!), I bump in it more often to fix things (more on that in a future blog post), which means that besides the standard console support in SQLite, having a versatile browser is really useful.
DB Browser for SQLite, or in short sqlitebrowser, fulfills that need better than I expected. It’s cross-platform so it works on Mac OS, Windows and Linux (and sort of on WSL2 on Windows, see links below).
Hopefully I can show you how I used it in future blog-posts. For now, and for my link archive, below are just some links to get started.
Oh and the comment: as always with files containing structured data that is randomly accessed you should be really careful when opening them over file-shares or virtual drives like cloud storage.
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