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Improving the JavaScript Bookmarklet to enable Mastodon publishing for a WordPress.com post that is edited in the Classic Editor

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/22

A while back (actually: a long time ago), in JavaScript Bookmarklet to enable Mastodon publishing for a WordPress.com post that is edited in the Classic Editor I promised to improve that code.

Actually I did improve the gist, but I forgot to write the blog post on it.

So below is the old code, new code, and explanation of the improvements.

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Reminder to self: do like TWM did – “Static version of my blog – twm’s blog”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/07

On the to do list is do this for my own blog: [Wayback/Archive] Static version of my blog – twm’s blog.

His static site is very rudimentary, but also loads very quickly. Just take a look at [Wayback/Archive] twm’s blog – Programming is thinking, not typing (was: Common sense isn’t)

TWM set this up a few years after introducing the static [Wayback/Archive] Delphi IDE Explorer Expert – twm’s blog page he announced 8 years before in [Wayback/Archive] New static page for my Delphi IDE Explorer expert – twm’s blog.

--jeroen

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Bookmarklets for going from the Wayback Machine to Archive Today

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/20

To ease my blogging, I wrote two more Bookmarklets that help me navigate to or save from a Wayback machine archived page to Archive Today.

A key thing I learned over the past 2+ decades is that “the cloud” (i.e. cloud computing) is “just someone else’s computer” which tends to be unavailable right when you need it no matter the applicable service-level agreement.

Which means that a long while ago, I switched to archiving external links to both the Wayback machine and Archive Today.

Since the Wayback machine is my primary, it helps to have Bookmarklets to go from such an archived page to the equivalent one on Archive Today, or even save it if it isn’t there.

So I made two more Bookmarklets which I will illustrate using the example.org based links https://example.org and http://example.org:

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Wat is de maximale huurverhoging voor een vrijesectorwoning in 2026? | Rijksoverheid.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/30

Edit 20260601: Tagged “missed schedule” vanwege de WordPress.com missed schedule bug die sinds 2012 niet is opgelost (kennelijk kan WordPress wel iets met AI, maar een lijst met meer dan 100 geagendeerde blogposts is “too big” voor ze)

Origineel:

Voor in het huurdossier: [Wayback/Archive] Wat is de maximale huurverhoging voor een vrijesectorwoning in 2026? | Rijksoverheid.nl

In 2026 is de jaarlijkse huurverhoging voor vrijesectorwoningen maximaal 4,4%. Dit geldt ook voor ligplaatsen voor woonboten. De huurverhoging moet wel als afspraak in uw huurcontract staan.

--jeroen

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Dit artikel werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door Google, Apple en Amazon. Die afhankelijkheid gaan we nu afbouwen – De Correspondent

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/01

Vooruitgang: [Wayback/Archive] Dit artikel werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door Google, Apple en Amazon. Die afhankelijkheid gaan we nu afbouwen – De Correspondent

--jeroen

PS: te laat gepubliceerd, want “Missed Schedule” omdat WordPress.com een beperking van 100 geplande artikelen in de wachtrij heeft. Een probleem dat ze al sinds 2012 niet opgelost hebben.

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LR: “warming myself on this post li…” – Gamedev Mastodon

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/22

(This post too suffered from the WordPress.com missed schedule bug which has been unfixed since 2012)


[Wayback/Archive] LR: “warming myself on this post like a space heater…” – Gamedev Mastodon

[Wayback/Archive] Post by @jensfoell.de — Bluesky

Dr. Jens Foell ‪@jensfoell.de‬

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

In other news today, in addition to the earlier leaked Anthropic AI model, Mythos got leaked as well – [Wayback/Archive] Dany :verified_gay:: “Ah yes, the almighty Mythos, …” – HSNL Social:

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Agile Manifsto turned 25 years this: happy birthmonth!

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/19

Missed Schedule 2020/02/19 at 6:00 pm

Missed Schedule 2020/02/19 at 6:00 pm

Yesterday evening, WordPress.com did it again: “missed schedule” – that bug still is not fixed, so I posted it manually today.


In the time when people create a lot of technical debt, the [Wayback/Archive] Manifesto for Agile Software Development turned 25 years. Happy birthmonth!

Birthmonty you say, not birthday? Yes, it took  a few days for the Agile Manifesto to get written – you can read about it at [Wayback/Archive] History: The Agile Manifesto which starts with

On February 11-13, 2001, at The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort in the Wasatch mountains of Utah, seventeen people met to talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground—and of course, to eat. What emerged was the Agile ‘Software Development’ Manifesto. Representatives from Extreme Programming, SCRUM, DSDM, Adaptive Software Development, Crystal, Feature-Driven Development, Pragmatic Programming, and others sympathetic to the need for an alternative to documentation driven, heavyweight software development processes convened

I got reminded to it [Wayback/Archive] Agile Manifesto co-author ‘smitten’ with vibe coding • The Register which shows that vibe coding only can work when all people involved know exactly what they are doing. More often than not they don’t, and just increase their technical debt which was something that working in an agile way tries to solve. So better re-read this 25 year piece of work before you start using LLM to generate code.

Related blog posts:

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Quick Accent steals the WordPress classic editor space after a hyphen-minus sign or asterisk · Issue #24623 · microsoft/PowerToys

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/11

A while ago I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Quick Accent steals the WordPress classic editor space after a hyphen-minus sign or asterisk · Issue #24623 · microsoft/PowerToys.

In the WordPress Classic Editor, the *  or -  combinations quickly generate an empty bulleted list:

When enabling the PowerToys Quick Accent (formerly [Wayback/Archive] PowerAccent) with their default settings this fails (but it does work in the WordPress Gutenberg editor, Word and some other tools I tested).

The easiest way to work around this is to switch from the default “Activation Keys” setting “Left, Right or Space” to “Left/Right Arrow”.

Hopefully besides the workaround there will also be a full fix.

The related C++ and C# source files:

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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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The WordPress feature that “beautifies” (malforms!) your Blog text is called `wptexturize`: on WordPress.com you cannot disable it.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03

Over the years, WordPress started to beautify more and more text thereby malforming many (read thousands) of my older blog posts.

An example is this:

--jeroen

is now rendered as

–jeroen

The two hypen-minus signs or -- have become a en-dash or –, not even an em-dash or — that is is double the width of an en-dash.

So after figuring out the cause, I asked if one could change it for a WordPress.com blog backed by a premium account: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Hi @wordpressdotcom, how do I globally disable wptexturize for a paid wiert.wordpress.com blog (it has Premium subscription)? Over the years, it has malformed more and more of my text which I don’t want (as it is way too much work to re-visit thousands of blog posts).”

Unbelievably, the answer is no!

So WordPress.com mandatorily changes the display of all your old Premium blog posts and the only solution they offer is to upgrade for another USD ~17 per month to disable it.

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