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#Tech45 – Nederlandstalige tech-podcast

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/05

Al een jaar of wat volg ik de Nederlandstalige #Tech45 podcast van tech45.eu:

Tech45 is een wekelijkse technologiepodcast. In minstens 45 minuten loodst een panel je door het interessantste technieuws van de voorbije week.

Ze hebben altijd een leuke titel zoals bijvoorbeeld de eerste van 2016: [WayBack] Tech45 #322: Ik heb eigenlijk alleen maar slechte voornemens

Wees niet verbaast als het ineens 60 of 80 minuten duurt en vol humor zit. Meestal luister ik ook na afloop en soms meerdere episodes achter elkaar.

Misschien is de nieuwe layout al af, zo niet dan staat het experiment op [WayBack] http://43.tech45.eu/

–jeroen

 

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YouTube videos in Markdown – via Markdown Cheatsheet · adam-p

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28

Clever, as I didn’t know you could directly refer to the YouTube preview image using the “/0.jpg” trick:

Youtube videos

They can’t be added directly but you can add an image with a link to the video like this:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE
" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE/0.jpg" 
alt="IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE" width="240" height="180" border="10" /></a>

Or, in pure Markdown, but losing the image sizing and border:

[![IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE](http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE/0.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE)

Source: [WayBack] Markdown Cheatsheet · adam-p/markdown-here Wiki · GitHub

Gif using gifs.com

If you allow using resources outside of YouTube, then you can use gifs.com to render the video into a gif image and use that image in the above construct.

I tried that with a few seconds from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHOpw55TI-U which resulted in https://gifs.com/gif/liquid-prompt-Lg1kPp and the gif file https://j.gifs.com/Lg1kPp.gif

via: [WayBack] flash – How to embed a video into GitHub README.md? – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] aloisdg for answering)

–jeroen

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WhatsApp FAQ – Formatting your messages

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/26

Oh cool:

Formatting your messages –

WhatsApp allows you to format selected text inside your messages.

Italic

To italicize your message, place an underscore on both sides of the text, like so: _text_

Bold

To bold your message, place an asterisk on both sides of the text, like so: *text*

Strikethrough

To strikethrough your message, place a tilde on both sides of the text, like so: ~text~

Monospace

To monospace your message, place three backticks on both sides of the text, like so: ```text```

Alternatively: On Android, you can tap and hold the text you’re typing > More …

Source: [WayBack] WhatsApp FAQ – Formatting your messages

–jeroen

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Notifications – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/20

As I keep forgetting the Notifications – Google+ URL and G+ kills “older” notifications: https://plus.google.com/notifications/all

–jeroen

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Delphi FMX TBitmapCodecManager.LoadFromFile calls TImageTypeChecker.GetType that returns ONLY predefined image types

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31

Bugs happen: [WayBack] Did I miss something ? I’ve tried to add a custom image loader for FMX … TBitmapCodecManager.LoadFromFile calls TImageTypeChecker.GetType that returns ONLY predefined image types ! (gif, bmp, png, tiff, jpg) … – Paul TOTH – Google+

I’m not so much surprised by bugs, but what scares the heck out of me is that since about halfway October 2017, there are 900+ Reported issues with status Unresolved (i.e. no change to the issue after it got reported).

Before switching to half-year product release cycles, the yearly ones had an issue triage cut-off date of about 3-6 months.

Now back on yearly cycles, I don’t expect that to be much different.

Expecting a new release in the halfway March 2018 till beginning May 2018 time frame, and assuming the past being a good indication of the future, the window of processing issues is closing soon.

I really hope I am wrong and wish 2018 turns out to he a great Delphi year.

–jeroen

Sorry this post became victim to the “Missed Schedule” issue (I finally found out there is a ridiculous limit of 100 scheduled posts over which scheduling becomes unreliable; this limit used to be much much larger in the past).

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In case you are still curious on “It’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand. ‘Dinner for one’ on New Year’s eve.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31

Via: [WayBack] It’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand. „Dinner for one“ am 31.12 … 12 mal… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

In case you are still interested (I think it is an hilarious sketch):

–jeroen

Sorry this post became victim to the “Missed Schedule” issue (I finally found out there is a ridiculous limit of 100 scheduled posts over which scheduling becomes unreliable; this limit used to be much much larger in the past).

[WayBack] Warning: Please do not schedule more than 100 posts. Any posts scheduled beyond that amount will not be published.

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hardware rec – When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/22

A kind of repeat of a 6 year old post, as by now this has much more information: [WayBack] hardware rec – When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply? – Super User.

It is a continuation for another drive of my 2011 post hard drive – When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?.

Basically I was unlucky receiving a brand new drive that appeared exceptionally slow and doing some ticking.

So I ran these on it:

–jeroen

Sorry for the “missed schedule”, but WordPress.com is acting up again:

Since I ran this machine on Windows and I didn’t have time to run locally, these are the tools I used:

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Search in Google+ – Computer – Google+ Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/18

I forgot how long it took them and how frustrating searches were without the new search operators, but they finally are there. So you don’t have to click again for the advanced options, I’ve quoted them below.

So earlier this year Google sort of restored the classic search (Remember when G+ search was useful? It again is. « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff) making it on par with the 2013 [WayBack] Search tips within Google Plus – WebSIGHT Hangouts and now they finally topped it.

Yay!

Details:

Lars Fosdal made a nice concise list of it.

–jeroen

Lars Fostal (with some minor additions from me):

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The day that the internet archive was down for a few hours – time to sponsor them.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/17

In an era where we’ve become dependent on 24/7 communications and availability of the internet, but even more so on archives of information that appeared, became fake and then denied, the Internet Archive (including the WayBack machine) was down for a few hours because of a PGE power outage in San Francisco.

(Posted late because, well the WordPress.com “missed schedule” bug is back)

So this is a reminder to sponsor the Internet Acrhive. Because we can.

–jeroen

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Yay! The WordPress.com Press-This bookmarklet now works again!

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/29

Good news the Press-This bookmarklet on WordPress.com has been reinstated.

See https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/pull/29 and the discussions in these below threads and sources.

Solves issues:

  • #12 – Add text domains
  • #15 – Restore Bookmarklet Functionality
  • #17 – Needs better documentation
  • #32 – The Press This bookmarklet itself on the tools page does not have the code

Some relevant sources:

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