Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/03
I celebrate my tiny milestones by writing blog posts on the things I learn.
What is your way to celebrate them?
Read [Wayback/Archive] Celebrate tiny learning milestones, especially this bit:
It’s really helpful for me to celebrate tiny milestones like this. I celebrate a lot by writing blog posts – I wrote the above list mostly by looking at my list of old blog posts for things I’d written about related to C.
If you don’t blog (it’s definitely not for everyone!), it can be helpful to write down this kind of thing in your [
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brag document instead.
But I do think it’s important to celebrate these milestones somewhere. It gives me a real sense that I’m making progress and it helps me stay motivated to keep learning about the thing.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/02
[Wayback/Archive] Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption | Hackaday is long and worth reading.
For me the most important bits are how to prevent SD card wear:
- use good quality power supplies
- put write-heavy operations to SSD
- if it suits your use-case, use OverlayFS
The first is always a good idea. It is the primary reason all our electronics live behind a UPS:
In addition, I posted my personal experience (Samsung microSD cards last way longer than SanDisk cards) on Twitter:
[Wayback/Archive] @hackaday I’m have been running a few Raspberry Pi systems with 8-32Gb micro-SD cards as web-dashboard with refreshes every few minutes or so: much write access. When using Sandisk (no matter the type) they last about a year, Samsung (no matter the type) cards last multiple years.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] hackaday on Twitter: “Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption https://t.co/R8KNVmQORD” / Twitter
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We had a lightning strike in the evening on 20181111 some 50 meters from our home.
It killed immediately killed this (some pictures further below):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/29
This is why I love nx:
Actually, saving the OVH image first is another 1, 2, 3, 4 (ssh, dd, gzip, dd).
Speed wasn’t bad BTW: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “Done 167772160+0 records in 167772160+0 records out 85899345920 bytes (86 GB, 80 GiB) copied, 2481.09 s, 34.6 MB/s [root@arch ~]#” / Twitter
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/28
Winter 2022, the Embarcadero docwiki (their most active site which contains all documentation for all their products) was down. Twice. First for a week, then parts of it for almost a week, then only parts of the Alexandria got up in a stable way.
Back then I published The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.. The product and library documentation for the most recent version got back up in a week, but the Code Examples and older product versions took much longers.
Usually once learns way more about a system when it is failing then when it is working. That was the case this system as well.
Documenting the failing system took considerable time, but would have taken way more if not for these two JavaScript browser bookmarklets:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/27
For my link archive is the below answer that should help me a lot with unfinished bits from Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs.
Goal of that post was to have some grounding and eventually find a means to build an HTML page in a new tab using a bookmarklet that I then later could post to my blog.
Assembling to HTML and putting it on the clipboard might be a lot easier and better fitting in my workflow.
So, via [Wayback/Archive] javascript copy html to clipboard – Google Search, for my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Javascript – Copy string to clipboard as text/html – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Loilo for answering and [Wayback/Archive] kofifus for asking):
Below is a function that will do exactly that. I tested it with your required browsers, it works in all of them. However, IE 11 will ask for confirmation on that action.
Explanation how this works can be found below, you may interactively test the function out in this jsFiddle.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/23
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/22
Since mail mostly “works” I use these below commands only very little and tend to forget them.
Luckily they were documented at [Wayback/Archive] Viewing email in Linux using postfix’s mailq and postcat | Jeff Geerling
Here are the most common commands I use when either developing or troubleshooting email in production:
mailq – print a list of all queued mailpostcat -vq [message-id] – print a particular message, by ID (you can see the ID along in mailq‘s output)postqueue -f – process the queued mail immediatelypostsuper -d ALL – delete ALL queued mail (use with caution—but handy if you have a mail send going awry!)
Via [Wayback/Archive] postfix process queue – Google Search two interesting answers (thanks [Wayback/A] Nicolas for asking):
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 