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Jeroen W. Pluimers on .NET, C#, Delphi, databases, and personal interests

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Kano-tochten rondom Lisse (via Kanovereniging Lisse)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/03

Hopelijk kan ik over een tijdje weer eens in een kano zitten en korte tochten maken.

Voorbeelden staan  op [Wayback/Archive] KVL-routekaartjes:

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Windows: DoubleKiller – find and remove duplicate files (Big Bang enterprises)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/03

The build is from 2007, but still works fine on Windows 10 and 11 and perfectly fitted my needs for finding some ~2500 duplicate files that Google Drive made with their “upgrade” from Google Backup and Sync to Google Drive File Sync (where syncing from shared content is sort of possible and impossible at the same time).

Via [Wayback/Archive] Which duplicate files and folders finders exist for Windows? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Chris Driver for answering and [Wayback/Archive] Andrija for asking) where I commented [Wayback/Archive]:

Thanks: still works fine in 2022. Download from … is a simple ZIP file which you can extract and just run the executable. No need for complicated installers or admin rights. Matches on (combinations of) name/size/date/CRC32, then intuitive GUI to select the files you don’t want any more, then either delete or move those selected files.

Via

–jeroen

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The binary tree actually exists!!

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/02

Yup, binary trees are real:

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Web UI/UX & coding tip: if you have tabular data, display them using table/tr/th/td (via Victor on Twitter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/01

So true:

[Wayback/Archive] Victor on Twitter: “UI/UX & Coding Tip 💡 Do you need to display table data? Use tables. Yes, , and . Yes, it’s fine. No, you don’t need flex, grids, divs, and all that. Why? Because it’s a table 🤷‍♂️”

UI/UX & Coding Tip 💡

Do you need to display table data? Use tables.

Yes, <table>, <tr> and <td>.

Yes, it’s fine. No, you don’t need flex, grids, divs, and all that.

Why? Because it’s a table 🤷‍♂️

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Some notes on Fierit

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/30

Since I had only one read-only account and the Fierit ECD system won’t sent me update notifications on that account, I have collected some links before actually doing deeper investigation to see how to build a push notification system around it.

Link dump:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Parameter you should add to most of your Google queries: “before:2023” (thanks Grant Gulovsen on Mastodon)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/29

[Wayback/Archive] Grant Gulovsen: “Someone recently posted a hot tip about adding “before:2023” to Google web searches and I forget who it was but wow what a huge difference it makes. So thank you to whoever that was. It gets rid of so much AI-generated SEO crap.” – Mastodon

The actual source seemed to be either of these:

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Veel Streamdeck tips in het topic “Mountain brengt DisplayPad- en MacroPad-toetsenbordjes uit voor content creators”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/29

Het grappige van sommige Tweakers.net artikelen is dat er dan ineens veel tips over een concurrerend product in staat (omdat de laatste over het algemeen op bepaalde vlakke beter is).

Zo ook met diverse handige Stream Deck (van Elgato) tips in commentaar onder het artikel [Wayback/Archive] Mountain brengt DisplayPad- en MacroPad-toetsenbordjes uit voor content creators – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers.

Samenvatting:

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Posted in Hardware, IoT Internet of Things, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, LifeHacker, Network-and-equipment, Power User, USB, USB-C | Leave a Comment »

When Ctrl-Alt-Del fails on Linux: Fix a Frozen System with the Magic SysRq Keys (via FOSSwire)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/26

Ctrl-Alt-Del will not safely reboot all systems under all circumstances.

If you run Linux, your keyboard has a magic RysRq key (sometimes not marked, but its the same key as the Print-Scrn key) and the Linux kernel is still running not all is lost.

Due to link rot, the archived links are the most recent that have all the comments for [Wayback/Archive] Fix a Frozen System with the Magic SysRq Keys | FOSSwire which amend

You finally got your Linux environment to crash. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing, nor do the F-keys. You know you shouldn’t have installed that bad driver, but you did it anyway.
So you reach for the power button.
Stop.
Mashing in the power button to reboot could cause a problem if your hard drive is still being written to, and usually causes more problems than it solves. The Linux kernel includes a secret method of restarting your PC should it ever stop doing its job.
  1. Hold down the Alt and SysRq (Print Screen) keys.
  2. While holding those down, type the following in order. Nothing will appear to happen until the last letter is pressed: REISUB
  3. Watch your computer reboot magically.

This 2007 comment makes it easier to remember: REISUB is the reverse of BUSIER:

R E I S U B – is just the word busier in reverse.

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Hardware, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, LifeHacker, Linux, Power User | Leave a Comment »

The halogen transformers we had: to high minimum power for use with LED

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/26

The ceiling spots had these power bricks had minimum power load of 20 and 35 watt, which was too high for our LEDs to function.

Models:

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Type systems are an accessibility tool for programming; for weakly languages you should enable type hints or type enforcement

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/25

I made [Wayback/Archive] Rebecca Skinner on Twitter: “Type systems are an accessibility tool for programming with ADHD.” stronger in the post title, as I have been a proponent of stronger typed environments for all my programming life.

Yes, (unit) tests and tooling can alleviate this in part for more weakly typed languages but lots of people forget (or “forget”) putting these in place.

So please please: make your development environment as strictly typed as possible.

Not just your ADHD colleagues will applaud you for this, but your future self will as well.

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