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Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress

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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XBlock Screenshot Labeller (@xblock.aendra.dev) — Bluesky

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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Eind 2024 was er een exclusieve tour in de Gerbrandytoren: het hoogste gebouw van Nederland – YouTube

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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linux – Get final URL after curl is redirected – Stack Overflow (plus some Twitter scraping tricks)

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/20
https://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/20
https://twitter.com/anyuser/status/20

Notes

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):

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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: | Leave a Comment »

Tootski, a sharing bookmarklet for Mastodon · GitHub

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 »

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

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

--jeroen

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DNS/web options: How to verify your Bluesky account – Bluesky

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:

--jeroen

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Igor Brigadir posted a few useful Twitter search tips a while back: searching tweets, users, disable auto-URL, embedding media, etc

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/11

For my link archive:

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Some Mastodon servers allow themselves to be wrapped with the cuckoo.social to give a G+ (Google Plus) like user interface

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/01

[Wayback/Archive] Cuckoo+ is a wrapper around Mastodon that makes the UI look like Google+ (G+ / Google Plus).

It is open source at [Wayback/Archive] NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus: A GooglePlus-Like third-party web client for mastodon. with hardly any updates like lik because the author is not active on Mastodon any more according to [Wayback/Archive] Is dead the repo ? · Issue #237 · NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus (via [Wayback/Archive] Issues · NanaMorse/Cuckoo.Plus)

Note that in some Mastodon instances it fails because of CORS issues:

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Keyboard shortcuts in social media: Twitter still tops is; BSKY needs a plugin; Mastodon is buggy

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/19

One reason I still use Twitter is that it trumps keyboard shortcuts over other social media I use.

References:

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