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Cleaning <!– wp:* comment elements from the WordPress Gutenberg editor

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/05

The only reason the very keyboard unfriendly WordPress Gutenberg editor can be a block editor is that it inserts tons of HTML comment elements starting with <!-- wp: in the code like for instance <!-- wp:paragraph -->…<!-- /wp:paragraph -->.

That makes the HTML even heavier than it already is, and getting rid of it wasn’t easy to find but is easy to do.

I wanted a JavaScript based solution, but could not find any quickly enough so for now these website based solutions work OK-ish when enabling the “clean comments” checkbox and then perform a clean action:

More links:

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twitter/communitynotes: Documentation and source code powering Twitter’s Community Notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/04

Is it OK to help with [Wayback/Archive] twitter/communitynotes: Documentation and source code powering Twitter’s Community Notes?

Some of the involved Twitter accounts (various languages now have their own accounts):

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Just in case the desktop version of WhatsApp more often shows “whatsapp needs to log you out and restart”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/02

For now the “whatsapp needs to log you out and restart” message in WhatsApp desktop occurred just a few times, but in case it happens more often:

These were hard to find as Duck Duck Go didn’t return any search results for [Wayback/Archive] “whatsapp needs to log you out and restart” at DuckDuckGo

--jeroen

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KlompLoper®️The Original! a.k.a. HoutStiefelaar: configure a custom domain as handle on Bluesky(bsky)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/26

[Wayback/Archive] Post by @klomploper.link – Bluesky:

KlompLoper®️The Original! a.k.a. HoutStiefelaar: “Ga naar settings > change handle > klik op ‘I have a domain’, maak dns record aan zoals beschreven en vul dat in als je nieuwe handle.” – Bluesky

–jeroen

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There are two kinds of mastofeeds?! Some notes and ideas.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/21

Earlier this year, someone mentioned Mastofeed. Then I found there are two kinds of Mastofeeds. Both have their own domain and their own repository. Both are free, so I wonder what their business models are as something or somebody needs to be the product. Both have to do with feeds and the ActivityPub protocol of the Fediverse (which mainly consists of Mastodon servers, but other types of servers are still growing). Both can be self-hosted. Both their directions and audience differs.

In short:

  • mastofeed.org (mentioned to me first) is uses RSS as feed and posts entries to the Fediverse
  • mastofeed.com (found later) uses Fediverse as feed and exposes entries as an HTML iframe using an HTTP API

Some more links:

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Posted in BITNET Relay, Blogging, Chat, CSS, Development, History, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Mastodon, PHP, Python, RSS, Scripting, sh, Sh Shell, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Idea: create an Apple ][ bot for Mastodon like BBC Micro Bot

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/15

Idea: create an Apple ][ bot for Mastodon like BBC Micro Bot

Regrettably, I don’t have the energy to pull this off myself, cancer was a bitch and I have less than half the energy I used fo have, but for anyone interested here are some links that could get you started:

On BBC emulation and BBC Micro Bot:

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Memories of Google Reader; how do we now find our ways in the plethora of information sources?

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/08

Some three years back, The Verge published these two on the same day:

I wonder what has changed by now and how we survived in the overload of information sources.

Google Reader, which basically got killed because Google took all it’s developers and put them on the Google Plus team, is the reason I started using Feedly and never stopped.

What is your main view through which you consume on-line information?

–jeroen

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🇺🇦 Anna Filina: “- How to close SendGrid account? – Contact support. 1 out of 31 found this helpful; LOL, deserved ratio.…” – PHP Community on Mastodon

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/07

[Wayback/Archive] 🇺🇦 Anna Filina: “- How to close SendGrid accoun…” – PHP Community on Mastodon

– How to close SendGrid account?
– Contact support.
1 out of 31 found this helpful
LOL, deserved ratio.

The thread continues with how bad SendGrid support is. Good reason to not use SendGrid at all.

--jeroen

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OverheidEdits (@OverheidEdits@botsin.space) – botsin.space

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/07

[Wayback/Archive] OverheidEdits (@OverheidEdits@botsin.space) – botsin.space

Deze Twitter-bot waarschuwt je als de Nederlandse overheid anoniem Wikipedia-artikelen wijzigt.

OverheidEdits begon ooit in 2014 op Twitter, maar is in 2023 noodgedwongen verhuisd naar Mastodon.

Beheerd door @koen@koenvangilst.nl. Gebaseerd op oorspronkelijke idee en broncode van Ed Summers (@edsu).

This user moved from overheidsedits@maakr.social.

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hayden on X: “there’s too many people with “AI/ML” in their bio asking what this image is.” / X

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/23

This Tweet from a year ago still is too relevant today: [WaybackSave/Archive] hayden on X: “there’s too many people with “AI/ML” in their bio asking what this image is.”

[Wayback/Archive] hayden on X: “this is who you’re arguing with online “

[Wayback/Archive] G0yRztcXUAAen1f.png:orig (1400×700)

Via: [Wayback/Archive] 4censord :nfp: 🔜@eth0: “Stealing to add alt text …” – UnFUG Mastodon

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