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javascript – Chrome debugging – break on next click event – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/23

I wish I had known this ages ago: [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Chrome debugging – break on next click event – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] D.R. for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Konrad Dzwinel for answering):

What you are looking for are [Wayback/Archive] ‘Event Listener Breakpoints‘ on the Sources tab. These breakpoints are triggered whenever any event listener, that listens for chosen event, is fired. You will find them in the Sources tab. In your case, expand ‘Mouse’ category and choose ‘Click’.

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Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Development, Google, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Avoid a software rewrite: it usually brings more trouble and puts you at a distance to competitors

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/22

[Wayback/Archive] lisacrispin on Twitter: “👇 This. If you want a new architecture, use the strangler fig pattern, and as he says in the thread, do it in prod. If you spend all your time rewriting, and your competitors spend that time adding new features for customers, your product will be in trouble.” / Twitter pointed me to the below thread.

The urge of rewrite often comes from a feeling of too much technical debt to carry. Preventing that technical debt in the first place would make this feeling go away in the first place so please strive for bringing down and limiting technical debt in the first place.

More about the above tweet further on in this blog post, but now back to the “rewrite everything” pit many fall into.

I saved the whole thread in [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @andrestaltz on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App of which this are a few highlights:

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Posted in Agile, Code Quality, Design Patterns, Development, Software Development, Systems Architecture, Technical Debt | Leave a Comment »

Derk Runhaar 🩺 on Twitter: “Huisartsen slaan terug met bureaucratie: we kunnen de aanvragende instantie niet helpen aan een schriftelijke verklaring zonder dat deze instantie vooraf deze schriftelijke verklaring invult. (Via @DokterRins)” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/21

Vorig jaar kwam er een licht ironische tweet langs met plaatjes van een verklaring voor paarse-krokodil-organisaties: [Wayback/Archive] Derk Runhaar 🩺 on Twitter: “Huisartsen slaan terug met bureaucratie: we kunnen de aanvragende instantie niet helpen aan een schriftelijke verklaring zonder dat deze instantie vooraf deze schriftelijke verklaring invult. (Via @DokterRins) “

Omdat het soms toch handig kan zijn een vergelijkbaar formulier naar een bureaucratische moloch te kunnen opsturen hier de tekst van onderstaande plaatjes:

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Happy birthday Turbo Pascal! Some marketing and Borland Conference videos

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/20

Some of you might remember [WayBack] Borland – Wikipedia, that today in 1983 shipped the first version of Turbo Pascal [Wikipedia].

It was of great influence, leading to other Turbo languages, Delphi, and – through it’s creator Anders Hejlsberg – eventually C#, .NET and TypeScript.

From the mid 1990s until the early 2000s, the Borland organised conferences (having various names, like Borland Language Conference, Borland Conference, Borland Developers Conference, Inprise Conference) had famous opening videos, and product marketing videos.

Some of them are below the signature.

Hopefully by the time of publishing, all of them are still there.

Edit 20231202:

I scheduled this post back in Winter 2019/2020 in between radiation therapy and surgery.

By now, more information on the anniversary has appeared online.

For more Turbo Pascal history, including – in reverse chronological order – old screenshorts and the first advertisements (and how quickly they changed from the pink on white to full colour ones), see my 2021 blog post Much Turbo Pascal history (via What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow). It had many screenshots including a Turbo Pascal 1.0 screenshot, which I have added it here to the right. By now  Turbo Pascal – Wikipedia and Borland Graphics Interface – Wikipedia are quite complete history of Turbo Pascal.

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Posted in .NET, C#, Delphi, Development, Pascal, QC, Software Development, Turbo Pascal | Leave a Comment »

Chemopomp | Home

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/17

Back when I had chemo in 2020 because of recum cancer metastases in the liver, the below Hepatic Arterial Infusion Pump (HAIP) alternative was not available yet. It means that current generations of Dutch patients have an improved method of treatment that hopefully helps increase their chances of survival.

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Posted in About, Cancer, Health, LifeHacker, Personal, Power User, Rectum cancer | Leave a Comment »

So what is clients6.google.com?

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/16

[Wayback/Archive] $7.5k Google services mix-up – Ezequiel Pereira

Luckily [Wayback/Archive] what is clients6.google.com – Google Search got me to [Wayback/Archive] $7.5k Google services mix-up – Ezequiel Pereira, which explains:

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1996 interview of legends Karel van der Graaf and David Bowie (R.I.P. both of them)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/16

https://x.com/djeekopdicht/status/1724858798047674491

Via

https://twitter.com/marcelvandriel/status/1724906445463060651

Full interview ending with the performance of “Under Pressure”:

Via

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Trying to do my best to be “and” instead if “either, or” (plus some links to convert Instagram media id to/from shortcode)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/15

[Wayback/Archive] Danielle Braun dr. on Twitter: “En en in plaats van of of.”

The image is by @thepresentpsychologist on Instagram (figured that out via Google Lens finding [Wayback/Archive] Psychological Safety Newsletter #39: Diversity and Ethical Behaviour | Psychological Safety), but and it took some effort to find the original post back as Instagram does not allow anonymous browsing.

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Posted in About, Autistic Spectrum/Autism, Development, Instagram, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Node.js, Personal, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

How to Switch to a 24 Hour Clock in Google Calendar – Live2Tech

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/14

Apparently you have to do this once for a Google account, as it is on the account level, not the web-browser level.

The odd thing was that somehow despite setting the country to The Netherlands when setting up the account, these were the settings in Google Calendar

  • Language: English (UK)‎
  • Country: Netherlands (Nederland)
  • Date format: 12/31/2021
  • Time format: 1:00pm

After the steps from [Wayback] How to Switch to a 24 Hour Clock in Google Calendar – Live2Tech, the settings now are these:

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Some WayBack machine archived Windows 11 ISOs

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/13

Got to the ISO files from www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 by changing the User-Agent of Chrome on Windows to be Chrome on Mac:

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