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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/10
RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)
The main way I consume news is through RSS feeds using Feedly as reader (after Google killed one of their best products: Google Reader in 2013). Many web-site do not show an RSS link or RSS icon on their home pages or other pages.
Below samples of sites followed by steps on how to find RSS Feeds.
From local examples I encountered most didn’t show they had RSS feeds or had not RSS feed at all:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/09
Given Excel is the most popular functional language (see the video under my post “Everybody should have an obsession with Lisp-like language at least once in their life” @KevlinHenney), this post is on sorting with Excel functions.
I had an array in Excel starting at row 2 (to exclude the headings) where I had to sort on 3 different columns: C, A, B (or numerically 3, 1, 2) so [Wayback/Archive] sorting – How to multi level sort an array in excel, using formulas? I am aware about the way, using SORT button on DATA tab – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Armaan Gohil and [Wayback/Archive] Jos Woolley) didn’t fully apply but did put me on the right track as I wasn’t aware that the SORT function allows to specify multiple columns using an embedded array argument.
The functions that worked:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05
With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up in less than a week, this is a reminder on how to report on this. Not just important to the media at large, but everyone on social media too.
When you are in The Netherlands:
- Is your life in immediate danger? Call 112 immediately.
- If your life is not in immediate danger but you could still use help, call 113 (standard rate) or 0800-0113 (free of charge) or start an online chat.
When you are outside The Netherlands, find help via these links:
- List of suicide crisis lines (Wikipedia)
- [Wayback/Archive] International Suicide Hotlines & Helplines. Free, 24/7 Chat, Text & Phone
- [Wayback/Archive] Call A Hotline – List of Worldwide Suicide Hotlines | Suicide Stop
- [Wayback/Archive] International Suicide Hotlines – OpenCounseling : OpenCounseling
Please read the 1 page large font and visually clear [Wayback/Archive] responsible-reporting-on-suicide.pdf.
The [Wayback/Archive] World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 started with the 2024-2026 triennial theme “Changing the Narrative on Suicide”, so please please please read the above PDF.
If you cannot view PDF on your computer, you can read it through the picture below, or an on-line PDF viewer in your web-browser through these links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/29
Reminder to self: check if the WordPress.com classic editor is still alive and still supports adding Crowdsignal (formerly Polldaddy) polls (Crowdsignal is part of Automattic, the WordPress.com parent company).
From [Wayback/Archive] Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress (I made the areas that are important to me in bold):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/25
[Wayback/Archive] XBlock Screenshot Labeller (@xblock.aendra.dev) — Bluesky
Hopefully documentation will be expanded beyond these two thin pages:
Via [Wayback/Archive] Post by @henkbulder.nl — Bluesky
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/18
Indrukwekkende video van “Zendmast Lopik” (staat in IJsselstein en heet officieel Gerbrandytoren):
[Wayback/Archive] EXCLUSIVE TOUR GERBRANDYTOWER | TALLEST STRUCTURE NETHERLANDS – YouTube
Achtergrondinformatie: Gerbrandytoren – Wikipedia
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/06
Sometimes I need [Wayback/Archive] Redirect Checker | Check your Statuscode 301 vs 302 on the command-line, so cURL to the rescue: [Wayback/Archive] linux – Get final URL after curl is redirected – Stack Overflow. The relevant portions of answers and comments further below.
TL;DR:
Since I prefer verbose command-line arguments (you can find them at the [Wayback/Archive] curl – How To Use on-line man page) especially in scripts this HTTP GET request is what works with Twitter:
% curl --location --silent --output /dev/null --write-out "%{url_effective}\n" https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20https://x.com/anyuser/status/20
This failed (twitter dislikes HTTP HEAD requests):
% curl --head --location --silent --output /dev/null --write-out "%{url_effective}\n" https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20
Given so many of my scripts now run on zsh, I added the new-line because of command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow. You can strip that bit.
Note that these do not perform client side redirects, so they do not return the ultimate originating URL https://x.com/jack/status/20 (which was the first ever Tweet on what was back then called twttr) as Twitter on the client-side overwrites window.location.href with the final URL. Similar behaviour for getting the Twitter user handle of a Twitter user ID, more on Twitter tricks below.
Tweet by TweetID trick via [Wayback/Archive] Accessing a tweet using only its ID (and without the Twitter API) – Bram.us.
Further reading (thanks [Wayback/Archive] vise, [Wayback/Archive] Daniel Stenberg, [Wayback/Archive] Ivan, [Wayback/Archive] AndrewF, [Wayback/Archive] Roger Campanera, and [Wayback/Archive] Dave Baird):
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, Batch-Files, Bookmarklet, Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, CSS, cURL, Development, Event, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, TCP, Twitter, Web Browsers, Web Development | Tagged: 76 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/05
For my research list: [Wayback/Archive] Tootski, a sharing bookmarklet for Mastodon · GitHub
--jeroen
Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Mastodon, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/28
[Wayback/Archive] Filtering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
Always convenient for events like these:
[Wayback/Archive] Die™ar: “Doe mee met de Mastodon Wie is…” – Mastodon
…
#wieisdemol #wieisdemol2025 #WIDM
…
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/21
Just in case I ever want to bind a BSKY handle to a domain name I own:
Via:
You can claim your own domain-name as username (like I did) by registering an
_atprotoTXTdns-record.
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 