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Querying Twitter for special characters

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/14

[Archive.is] 🏫⏳🏷🌎💸 – Twitter Search URI is https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=%F0%9F%8F%AB%2520%E2%8F%B3%2520%F0%9F%8F%B7%2520%F0%9F%8C%8E%2520%F0%9F%92%B8.

The source is

It searches for

🏫%20⏳%20🏷%20🌎%20💸

It gets you this result:

–jeroen

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Settling on PowerGUI for PowerShell development

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/08

Preparing for another PowerShell article, I found this blast from the past, as somehow this missed the publishing schedule back in 2014!

Original text

After struggling with [Wayback] PowerShell ISE for a while ([Wayback] it started as a proof of concept and wasn’t meant to be an IDE you know) reading [Wayback] Powershell Studio vs Primal Forms Free CE vs PowerShellPlus Pro (also free) – Spiceworks, I’ve started using the free [Wayback] PowerGUI IDE for PowerShell by Dell.

The [Wayback] free PowerGUI used to be maintained by Quest, and after [Wayback] the acquisition of Quest by Dell in 2012, it is still free and is now at Product Support – PowerGUI Pro.

It is great (even got [Wayback] full support for PowerShell 3.0) and you can get it at the [Wayback] PowerGUI Downloads.

Notes:

–jeroen

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Unwanted non-breaking spaces (&nbsp) | WordPress.org

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/01

Having spurious non-breaking spaces seems to be unavoidable: [WayBack] Unwanted non-breaking spaces (&nbsp) | WordPress.org.

Deleting them is tough:

  • in the visual editor, deleting a non-breaking spaces will mess up at least lists, pre and code blocks.
  • the text editor is the only reliable place to remove them. Search for  .

–jeroen

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Ian Colwater: Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit. · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/30

[WayBack/Archive.is] Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit. · GitHub

Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit. – twittermute.txt

Via:

Related:

More details in [WayBack/Archive.is] List of Twitter mute words for your timeline | Hacker News curated comments:

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html – CSS Display an Image Resized and Cropped – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/25

[WayBack] html – CSS Display an Image Resized and Cropped – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] roborourke!); see full answer link for runnable snippet and HTML (the WordPress editor keeps fucking up preformatted code blocks with html or XML in it).

You could use a combination of both methods eg.

    .crop {
        width: 200px;
        height: 150px;
        overflow: hidden;
    }

    .crop img {
        width: 400px;
        height: 300px;
        margin: -75px 0 0 -100px;
    }

You embed the img in a div with class .crop, or in-line the styles in the img and div tags.

--jeroen

 

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Abel Wang, a true legend, is gone.

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/30

Hopefully my response to his spouse was appropriate enough:

Thanks for this tribute. It’s amazing, lovely, wonderful, all at the same time.

Abel is one of the persons that I would have loved to meet in real life.

I’m forever grateful that Scott Hanselman got me into touch with Abel Wang. Abel informed and motivated me. After that we stayed in touch every now and then about being ill and how to deal with that.

I had to contemplate for a while as this hit me harder than I thought, especially given the “always positive Abel” he is in my – and many others’ – minds.

So to all his close ones: remember the positivity and try to be like that. Abel expects that from us.

Glad I could send him some good thoughts last week, and miss him already.

Related twitter links (Image by Donavan Brown) as my memory still is not what it used to be:

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Some more G+ / Plexodus links

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/06/21

From a long time ago, in case I ever need them:

–jeroen

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After the freenode to libera transition: openSUSE:IRC list – openSUSE Wiki

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/06/18

For my link archive: [Wayback] openSUSE:IRC list – openSUSE Wiki

–jeroen

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Check if this still happens: some Twitter content in the WayBack machine gets a slash in the URL removed during rendering on Chrome

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/06/11

From my research list; check if this still happens: [WayBack] Saving Twitter content in the WayBack archive: the fully loaded page has a wrong trailing URL (missing the second slash before the authority) · GitHub

  1. Visited https://twitter.com/MarkGraham
  2. Saved it using https://web.archive.org/save/https://twitter.com/MarkGraham
  3. Waited for the save to complete and the page to fully load and got https://web.archive.org/web/20190607081047/https:/twitter.com/MarkGraham
  4. Observed the trailing part is not a valid URL any more https:/twitter.com/MarkGraham: it is missing the second slash before the authority (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Generic_syntax)

This might be a Twitter.com thing:

Notes:

  • I have only tested this with my Chrome configurations on various machines (both regular and anonymous tabs) over at least a year; I need to figure out what happens when using different browsers.
  • It does not always happen.

Via: [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “I understand that the sites themselves pay a big role in this. That’s why I have the mangling of URLs that sometimes happens on my research list. I made this quick summary: …”

–jeroen

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Het hopelijk tijdelijke afscheid door Haagse Insider🕵🏻‍♂️ (@HaagseInsider) | Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/13

Gisteren was er een (hopelijk tijdelijk) afscheid door [Archive.is] Haagse Insider🕵🏻‍♂️ (@HaagseInsider) | Twitter.

De indrukwekkende draad is helaas niet beschikbaar op Archive.is, maar wel beschikbaar op het web archief.

Sowieso wens ik meer rust en afstand voor HaagseInsider. Daarnaast duim ik dat het een weerzien wordt.

—jeroen

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