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Steven Murdoch on Twitter: “However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content! 3/9”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/07

Windows had its own aCropalypse in the Snipping tool, but other UWP based applications are vulnerable of that too because of this:

[Wayback/Archive] Steven Murdoch on Twitter: “However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content! 3/9”

It is part of this interesting [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @sjmurdoch on Thread Reader App with these two parts just after the above Tweet:

The old Win32 API for saving a file was (roughly) to show a file picker, get the filename the user selected, and then open the file. To open a file, the programmer must specify whether to overwrite the file or not, and example code usually does overwrite the file.
However, the new “more secure” Universal Windows Platform (UWP) sandboxes the file picker in a separate process, allowing neat features like capability-based access control. It returns a file handle which, if the selected file exists, will not overwrite the existing content!

The tread continued supporting this statement, that in the new situation you need to manually truncated the file, and referenced these links:

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Posted in .NET, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, UWP (Universal Windows Platform), Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

“Your YouTube Comments” is part of “Google – My Activity”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06

It took me a while to find, but the canonical URL is Source: [Wayback/Archive] Google – My Activity – Your YouTube Comments

It was a relatively short queste:

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Posted in Google, Power User, SocialMedia, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

Excel: operations involving the last occurence of a substring (with examples getting the current Worksheet, Workbook and file/directory path)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/02

Last month I wrote about CELL function looks interesting but beware: language nightmares coming up….

There I mentioned both formulas from [Wayback/Archive] Get sheet name only – Excel formula | Exceljet and [Wayback/Archive] Insert the current Excel file name, path, or worksheet in a cell – Microsoft Support failing to deliver the expected results

an official Microsoft example of obtaining the Worksheet name which I suspected would not work on systems allowing ] in path names. And indeed it is true: that case fails on both MacOS and Windows in the same way.

Here you see the failures of both the ExcelJet function and the ones from Microsoft Support on two operating systems:

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Excel, Office, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter | Leave a Comment »

Organising my Twitter lists: adding many accounts at once

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/30

I could not find a way to add many accounts at once to a Twitter list using the normal App or Web UI, so I did a [Wayback/Archive] twitter mass add accounts to list – Google Search

The only way to do this seems to be to use Google Chrome and install [Wayback/Archive] Better TweetDeck – Chrome Web Store combined with the old TweetDeck UI (or use and install it on any of the other supported browsers).

Note that it is basically a project shelved early 2023, so it will likely have stopped functioning before you read this.

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The mastodon boop sounds are called boop and were created by Josef Kenny

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/24

You can find the binary files sound files of the Mastodon beep sound at

They were created by [Wayback/Archive] Josef Kenny (blog: [Wayback/Archive] josef.one; Mastodon “i made that mastodon boop sound”: [Wayback/Archive] josef (@jk@mastodon.social) – Mastodon) early 2017 and updated with metadata later that year. In 2022 it became clear that using the sound is allowed as long as there is credit:

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Posted in Audio, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, Mastodon, Media, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Source Code Management | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

RSS dulls the pain of the modern web • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/16

Apparently people are fed up enough that finally El Reg published an article like [Wayback/Archive] RSS dulls the pain of the modern web • The Register.

So I wrote this [Wayback/Archive] Post by @wiert.bsky.social — Bluesky

I have been consuming the majority of web content through RSS for at least 15 plus years now, and The Register explains exactly why:

the web has become unbearable to consume. Not just because of ads and their risks, but especially because every web site has a different user experience.

Before 2013, I used Google Reader, but Google has the habit of killing products, so now I use Feedly.

These are some prior blog posts I wrote on them:

  1. Google Reader stops at 2013-07-01: How can I download my Reader data? (via: Reader Help)
  2. Google Reader alternatives: did you make a choice yet?
  3. A few notes on Google Reader replacements that I’m testing
  4. Is there a Google Reader replacement that keeps ALL Google Reader history?
  5. knowledge worker tip: adding a Google Group to #Feedly using one of its RSS feeds

El Reg linked newer posts by others:

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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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Posted in Agile, Development, Extreme Programming (X), Missed Schedule, Power User, Software Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

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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Posted in Blogging, Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, LifeHacker, PHP, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

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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Posted in .NET, C#, C++, Classic editor, Development, Gutenberg editor, Power User, PowerToys, SocialMedia, Software Development, Windows, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

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