Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/21
I wonder what has changed since this November 2024 article: [Wayback/Archive] All of Bluesky’s Features and How to Use Them
Via a response on me asking about moderation lists: [Wayback/Archive] John Kraal: “Deze pagina had wat basic info. Het is wel gewoon vertrouwen delegeren aan een willekeurige ander dus ga er niet blind op :-) …” — Bluesky
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/21
There is this German joke about “WLAN-Kabel” (WiFi-cable) ** that goes with #Neuland (Germans mocking about Internet and technology still being uncharted territory*).
Yes, they do!
There is [Wayback/Archive] IWLAN RCoax Cable | Industrial Wireless LAN | Siemens Global:
See:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04
While blogging, online tools often beat offline or command-line tools, so here there are:
They use JavaScript and do client-side conversion.
There are way more conversion targets (Delimited, Flat File, GeoJSON, HTML Table, JSON, KML, Markdown, Multi-line Data, PDF, SQL, Word, XML, YAML) and operations (Pivot, Transpose, Query with SQL), but the above are what I use most.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/17
It looks like I missed that Google has added a new URL parameter to its search engine quite a while ago.
In the past, you could turn on image search using the tbm=isch URL parameter (“to be matched” and “image search”).
That still works, but there is a new parameter on the block that is officially undocumented, and can be used to switch into various search modes including image search but also AI-less search.
This drastically lowers the carbon footprint and also gets you far less speculative information.
Edit 20251023: I forgot to save the below part before the scheduled post got published. So here we go
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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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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 