Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/26
During my year+ of cancer treatments, Embarcadero did a tiny thing that makes [Wayback/Archive]FreeAndNil safer to use. In order to do so, the method now lies to you by taking a const [ref] parameter which technically it is not allowed to change, but the internal hackery allows it to. Dalija Prasnikar explained it in 2020: [Wayback/Archive] Magic behind FreeAndNil.
The new signature is this:
procedure FreeAndNil(const [ref] Obj: TObject); inline;
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/25
Every once in a while, b0rk (Julia Evans, of [Wayback/Archive] wizard zines fame) asks interesting questions like below that results in lot of cool links.
I have blogged assemblies of them before (see for instance Lots of interesting git links via b0rk on Twitter) and this one is no different:
[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “what are some helpful programming learning games? thinking of things like mystery.knightlab.com for SQL, and flexboxfroggy.com, and ohmygit.org especially interested in games that have helped you learn something”
The response was overwhelmingly good (I tried to indicate when games are not free or not playable from a web browser). I summarised it below.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/24
[Wayback/Archive] Deleted Tweet Finder taught me there is another web page archival site next to the Wayback Machine and Archive.is (also known as Archive Today): GhostArchive which was established in 2021 right when I was recovering from more than a year of cancer treatments.
They have quite a few ways to address an archived URL of which this is the main entry point: https://ghostarchive.org/search?term=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhisvault_eth%2Fstatus%2F1802834724114649422
Reminder to self: figure out the URLs that trigger archival.
Via
Note that the Google Webcache is not really an archival site, nor is there possibility to trigger archival.
The URL structure there is https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhisvault_eth%2Fstatus%2F1802834724114649422 (the part after cache: is the page link after URL encoding)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/24
Reminder for me to check if Google Photo’s allows you to tag people in individual photo’s.
[WayBack] https://twitter.com/dflieb/status/1146174112890408960:
Yes, I am aware that Google Photo’s apps (on at least Android) allow you to attach names to photo’s is selects as unrecognised.
I mean the other way around: have photo with one or more faces on it, then tag each face by hand.
Via: [WayBack] Google Photos will let you manually tag faces it doesn’t recognize
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/21
[Wayback/Archive] www.ns.nl/binaries/_ht_1528098947038/content/assets/ns-nl/stationsinformatie/voorzieningen-in-de-verschillende-intercitys.pdf is voor mij nieuw, want ik reis nauwelijks per trein:
Werken en rustzone
Deze zone is ingericht om rustig te reizen.
Hier kan de reiziger lezen, werken, slapen of
zachtjes praten. De stoelen staan daarom
zoveel mogelijk achter elkaar en niet
tegenover elkaar.
[Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/21
Most PNG/JPEG versions of this get the bottom right corner wrong (it should read 66 Celsius, not 68).
I have colourised the table as most of the PNG/JPEG versions have.
[Wayback/Archive] Hitzeentwicklung im Auto nach Zeit und Außentemperatur | Statista (English below)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/20
It is deprecated but still works and an easy way to quickly set the inner borders of an HTML table: use the rules attribute.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 