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Is there an RSS feed for my publication? – Substack, Inc

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/27

Reading SubStack via RSS skips the nag screens and other annoying steps.

If you sign in to your.substack.com/feed then you get redirected to your own RSS feed link.

Even easier if you want to read from a link:

  • if you see a Subtack URL hosted at domain.substack.com
  • then the accompanying RSS feed URL is domain.substack.com/feed

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Baert on Twitter: “Tip voor mensen die substacks lezen: elke substack heeft een RSS-feed onder https:// whatever . substack . com / feed – Inladen in je RSS-lezer, en geen nag screens of gedoe, gewoon de content.”

Related:

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Agile Manifsto turned 25 years this: happy birthmonth!

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/19

Missed Schedule 2020/02/19 at 6:00 pm

Missed Schedule 2020/02/19 at 6:00 pm

Yesterday evening, WordPress.com did it again: “missed schedule” – that bug still is not fixed, so I posted it manually today.


In the time when people create a lot of technical debt, the [Wayback/Archive] Manifesto for Agile Software Development turned 25 years. Happy birthmonth!

Birthmonty you say, not birthday? Yes, it took  a few days for the Agile Manifesto to get written – you can read about it at [Wayback/Archive] History: The Agile Manifesto which starts with

On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground—and of course, to eat. What emerged was the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto. Representatives from Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming, and others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened

I got reminded to it [Wayback/Archive] Agile Manifesto co-author ‘smitten’ with vibe coding • The Register which shows that vibe coding only can work when all people involved know exactly what they are doing. More often than not they don’t, and just increase their technical debt which was something that working in an agile way tries to solve. So better re-read this 25 year piece of work before you start using LLM to generate code.

Related blog posts:

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Online HTML Stripper. Remove HTML and formatting from text

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/11

This was the easiest tool to remove HTML from select tags while keeping line breaks: [Wayback/Archive] Online HTML Stripper. Remove HTML and formatting from text.

Especially the client-side on-line tools I tried failed that option:

This just does not work at all for me: [Wayback/Archive] HTML Cleaner (cannot paste HTML text: needs to paste formatted text which does not work with select elements).

Could I have done this on a command-line? Of course, but I don’t need it often enough to warrant investigating and remembering how to do that in an efficient manner.

Queries:

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Quick Accent steals the WordPress classic editor space after a hyphen-minus sign or asterisk · Issue #24623 · microsoft/PowerToys

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/11

A while ago I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Quick Accent steals the WordPress classic editor space after a hyphen-minus sign or asterisk · Issue #24623 · microsoft/PowerToys.

In the WordPress Classic Editor, the or combinations quickly generate an empty bulleted list:

When enabling the PowerToys Quick Accent (formerly [Wayback/Archive] PowerAccent) with their default settings this fails (but it does work in the WordPress Gutenberg editor, Word and some other tools I tested).

The easiest way to work around this is to switch from the default “Activation Keys” setting “Left, Right or Space” to “Left/Right Arrow”.

Hopefully besides the workaround there will also be a full fix.

The related C++ and C# source files:

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Auteur Jean Marc van Tol van Fokke en Sukke stopt op BSKY: …. (@jmvtol.bsky.social) — Bluesky

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/31

Meer info: [Wayback/Archive] …. (@jmvtol.bsky.social) — Bluesky

Het bericht over de aanvaring tussen Jean Marc van Tol en het BSKY moderatie-team – hij kwam op de blacklist vanwege een bericht waarvan het op zijn minst discutabel is of hij daarvoor 4 strafpunten hoort te krijgen met daardoor automatisch een 3-daagse ban – stop hij op dat medium.

Kennelijk mag je daar niet uiten dat je blij zou zijn wanneer Trump hemelt: dat wordt geschaard onder dood wensen¹.

Het Fokke en Sukke account is er inmiddels leeg: [Wayback/Archive] Fokke & Sukke (@fokkesukke.bsky.social) — Bluesky

Maar zowel Jean Marc als Fokke en Sukke blijven actief op onder andere Mastodon, zie de linkjes in [Wayback/Archive] Post by @wiert.bsky.social — Bluesky:

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For a brief moment of time Mike Luckovich polled the public for his next cartoon

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/15

Mike Luckovich on BSKY: Which one should I draw?

Now dead link – I was too late to archive it: Mike Luckovich on BSKY: Which one should I draw?

[Wayback/Archive] 536333987-938257d2-91fc-491c-9abc-647c651085c6.png (609×443)

Larger draft images:

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GitHub – spotDL/spotify-downloader: Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/01

Need to check the matching algorithm of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – spotDL/spotify-downloader: Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

I wanted to download [Wayback/Archive] The Incredits – song and lyrics by Michael Giacchino | Spotify for music practice, but then found Michael listed it on his YouTube channel twice:

A bit later I also found [Wayback/Archive] The Incredits – Transcription (with original score) – YouTube with [Wayback/Archive] The Incredits Sheet Music for Piano, Trombone, Tuba, Flute piccolo & more instruments (Symphony Orchestra) | MuseScore.com

Via [Wayback/Archive] Youtube-dl supports Spotify. How to use it? : youtubedl.

--jeroen

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Dashboard: Invoices – Proton Account

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/15

For the yearly administration shizzle, the direct link to Dashboard: Invoices – Proton Account (account.proton.me/u/dashboard#invoices) where sometimes you have to visit one of your product first.

The reason is that at the time of writing, this was documented to be in a different place, as per [Wayback/Archive] How to download, customize, or pay invoices | Proton

Log in to your Proton Account at account.proton.me on a computer, click Settings → All settings → Dashboard, and scroll down to Invoices.

You start at [Wayback/Archive] account.proton.me/login and end up at account.proton.me/apps and that is where you cannot choose settings. You can however go to individual products and via that to the above invoices link. That’s cumbersome, it is way easier to just follow that invoices link, but in case you want to go via the products, these are the steps to follow:

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How do you disable these thumbnails that pop up near the end of videos!? : r/youtube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/09

Since a few years, YouTube puts annoyingly overlays on top of like the last 5 to 10 seconds of videos often covering valuable content.

Lately – while preparing for concerts – I have watched a lot of score music videos where the end really is very important to me (see the example below), for instance when rehearsing [Wayback/Archive] La Alhambra – Llano – YouTube until the final end.

The solution came from [Wayback/Archive] How do you disable these thumbnails that pop up near the end of videos!? : r/youtube

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camerahacks/rpilocator-rss-feed: rpilocator RSS Feed Notifications

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/04

On my list to experiment with is [Wayback/Archive] camerahacks/rpilocator-rss-feed:

This is the official rpilocator.com and hwlocator.com RSS feed reader and push notification scripts and Node-RED flows. The RSS feed is checked every minute and the script/flow sends a push notification when a product comes in stock.

Send ntfy, Pushbullet, Pushover or Gotify notifications to your device.

I only knew one of the above services, so here I have listed links to all of them:

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