Stumbled across something that goes well with jq (the sed for JSON of which I wrote about before), [Wayback/Archive] Jan-Piet Mens :: A shell command to create JSON: jo:
Jan-Piet Mens :: A shell command to create JSON: jo
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/30
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Caroline Brouwer on Twitter: “Vrijdag verhuizen we op de FM 📦🎶 check je nieuwe frequentie op radioveronica.nl”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/30
[Wayback/Archive] Caroline Brouwer on Twitter: “Vrijdag verhuizen we op de FM 📦🎶 check je nieuwe frequentie op radioveronica.nl“
De echte link is www.radioveronica.nl/fm-frequenties-vanaf-september-23
–jeroen
PS:
Kaartje net nieuwe FM-frequenties staat op
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.NET/C#: Small command-line tool to query REST JSON results from a batch file.
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/29
Often the power is in the combinations of tools.
Read until the epilogue…
Prologue
In this case, I needed to be able to query the JSON results of calls to REST services from the command-line so I could process them in Batch files.
Since I could not find anything readily available, I originally Originally I opted for the PowerShell command-line scripting tool, as that ships with recent Windows versions and can re-use anything that .NET brings. But though [Wayback/Archive] .NET has built in JSON serialization support, there is [Wayback/Archive] no querying support in it.
Then I thought about Delphi, as it [Wayback/Archive] too has a built-in JSON parser, but even the well known [Wayback/Archive] JSON SuperObject library has no query support.
Back to .NET, which – like Delphi – has a well known and respected third party JSON library as well: [Wayback/Archive] NewtonSoft JSON aka JSON.net and that one [Wayback/Archive] does have support for querying JSON with the SelectToken function.
That’s the fundament of the rest of this article, with the potential to be used in a cross-platform as well.
So no need for a plan B.
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Only 2 weeks left to enable 2FA for your GitHub account
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/29
If you haven’t done so already, then enable 2FA for your GitHub account now: This will be a requirement in 2 weeks time.
The 2FA/MFA possibility started about half a year ago with [Wayback/Archive] Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13 – The GitHub Blog
You can have various means of 2FA, which al start with a choice between:
- An OTP app (pick your choice, for instance from for instanceComparison of OTP applications – Wikipedia)
- SMS/text (not really recommended due to SIM swap scam – Wikipedia)
After completing either of those those, you can view/download a set of backup codes, and you can add more factors to your Multi-factor authentication setup up to these:
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Learned a while ago from @Caramelia79 at Twitter: “AEG Methode.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/28
Too bad that [Wayback/Archive] Cara (@Caramelia79) / Twitter deleted their tweet before it got archived, so this lone tweet does not really make sense now:
[Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@Caramelia79 @unimanatee Heute neu gelernt: AEG Methode.” / Twitter
The joke however was this:
AEG Methode:
- Ausschalten
- Einschalten
- Geht
It is also known as “AEG-Prinzip” and refers back to the AEG brand that was (still is?) big in Germany for household appliances and industrial products.
The not so cool thing is that by now it seams to mean:
- Ausschalten
- Einschalten
- Geht nicht
as about a year ago some AEG microwave appliance models show errors F606 and F254 after a firmware update: they now think they are steam ovens but cannot find the correct steam hardware:
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Some 10 years later, most backers received it: Oscilloscope Watch by Gabriel Anzziani » Progress. Almost there… — Kickstarter
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/26
Via
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Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/25
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum.
- Asking your end users to white list your email address and the Sendgrid IP (
167.89.58.99) can help alleviate the issues.
I didn’t know the above but bumped into an issue because I didn’t know a supplier had moved to vBulletin Cloud, my account password stopped being accepted and my account password reset messages would not arrive.
So I wrote this as part of a mail to sort this out, and it was confirmed to be correct:
Then I re-checked a few connection refusals that appeared close to the password reset tries. Not sure if this a pattern, but a few of them had this:2022-02-20T19:41:42.999415+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: connect from o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99]
2022-02-20T19:41:43.015958+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: dns 99.58.89.167.bl.spamcop.net. => 127.0.0.2
2022-02-20T19:41:43.016442+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net, arg2=127.0.0.2, relay=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99], reject=553 5.3.0 Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?167.89.58.99
2022-02-20T19:42:29.527789+01:00 snap sendmail[23814]: 21KIeTfo023814: engine10.uptimerobot.com [69.162.124.231] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTAFrom the linked page I got to https://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=167.89.58.99 indicating167.89.58.99 listed in bl.spamcop.net (127.0.0.2)
If there are no reports of ongoing objectionable email from this system it will be delisted automatically in approximately 13 hours.
Causes of listing
- System has sent mail to SpamCop spam traps in the past week (spam traps are secret, no reports or evidence are provided by SpamCop)
Express-delisting is not available
Listing HistoryIn the past 44.4 days, it has been listed 12 times for a total of 13.3 days
Can you check if the forum software uses sendgrid?
The confirmation linked to the first post in this blog entry on how to whitelist the SendGrid outgoing IP-address.
One thing I wonder: why does SendGrid use a single outgoing IP-address? If it gets blacklisted, many of their clients have problems.
Anyway: before adding the entry to my whitelist, the problem had resolved itself, and the blacklist entries were done:
- [Wayback/Archive] SpamCop.net – Blocking List ( bl.spamcop.net )
Information about the reasons for IP listing (blocking) your mail server (167.89.58.99)
- [Wayback/Archive] SpamCop.net – blcheck – 167.89.58.99
Query
bl.spamcop.net–167.89.58.99…
167.89.58.99not listed inbl.spamcop.net
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Forum Move – Scooter Forums
We’ve moved our forums to vBulletin Cloud.
New forum URL: https://forum.scootersoftware.com/
Links to the old forum will be redirected to the new URL.
If you notice any problems after the move, please let us know.
[Wayback/Archive] Forums – Scooter Forums
–jeroen
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Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?”
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/24
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?” / Twitter
From the languages that I have been using most:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids Delphi having had virtual constructors since version 1. Wrote a blog post only years after it was introduced as too few developers (still!) realise the power of it: …” / Twitter
- [Wayback/Archive] Marco Wobben on Twitter: “@redrapids @jpluimers Perhaps not terribly unique, but definitely my favorite: Strong typing in Delphi/Pascal.” / Twitter
- [Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids C#: extension methods on interfaces. Without this, things like LINQ would have been impossible. ” / Twitter
- [Wayback/Archive] c# – Can extension methods be applied to interfaces? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Greg and [Wayback/Archive] Aaronaught):
Of course they can; most of Linq is built around interface extension methods.Interfaces were actually one of the driving forces for the development of extension methods; since they can’t implement any of their own functionality, extension methods are the easiest way of associating actual code with interface definitions.See the Enumerable class for a whole collection of extension methods built aroundIEnumerable<T>. To implement one, it’s the same as implementing one for a class
- [Wayback/Archive] c# – Can extension methods be applied to interfaces? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Greg and [Wayback/Archive] Aaronaught):
It was a kind of follow-up on his earlier tweet that also sparked nice responses at [Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What is a #programming technique or construct that other people like but you think is overused?” / Twitter.
In my respons I phrased my decades long pet peeve [Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids OOP: inheritance over composition. This leads to deep hierarchies that eventually nobody understands.” / Twitter.
Whereas with OOP (object-oriented programming) one should use composition over inheritance, often the reverse is true.
Actually my take can be generalised into two directions as these hierarchies:
- often crowd a single namespace, so: crowding namespaces is bad.
One does see this outside the Object Oriented realm a well.
JavaScript for instance takes the crowded global namespace one step further by many libraries taking
$q,$_or$x, which is part of my take[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@redrapids Mutation of global state followed by an overly crowded global namespace. Example on the JavaScript side: too many libraries and projects using the global `$` and `_` symbols.”.
- often have many levels of indirection, so: overdoing indirection is bad
One does see this outside the Object Oriented realm a well, just not as pronounced.
[Wayback/Archive] joao on Twitter: “@redrapids But to be more specific, I think sometimes there’s too much indirection with very deep class hierarchies. In the same vein those rules of “functions should have at most 6 arguments and 5/10/20 lines” can lead to a ton of indirection chasing the subfunctions being called”.
–jeroen
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Some notes on the WordPress Press-This bookmarklet
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/23
I want to improve my WordPress blogging experience especially since most of the pages I link also have two extra links of the archived pages in the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.
The WordPress Press-This bookmarklet does not always cut it. It is slow too as it does a POST request to the WordPress site which then renders a new page.
It is also highly minified, so below are some links that will hopefully allow me to research it further to see if I either could improve it for my own workflow, or need to start from scratch.
- I think the
window.pt_urlparameter is the URL-Encoding of the Press-This base URL (for my blog, it is"https:\/\/wiert.wordpress.com\/wp-admin\/press-this.php?v=8"in the JavaScript source of the bookmarklet, which – unencoded – is https://wiert.wordpress.com\/wp-admin\/press-this.php?v=8). - Potentially most recent versions in the WordPress core code:
- [Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/4.8/src/wp-admin/js/bookmarklet.js
- [Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/4.8/src/wp-admin/js/bookmarklet.min.js
- [Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/tree/4.9/src/wp-admin/js WordPress 4.9 removed it, but after backlash it got into a Press This plugin, see below
- Older SVN versions via [Wayback/Archive] “pt_url” “WordPress” – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] Changeset 31609 – WordPress Trac
- [Wayback/Archive] Changeset 31584 – WordPress Trac
- [Wayback/Archive] Changeset 31565 – WordPress Trac
- [Wayback/Archive] Changeset 31534 – WordPress Trac
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31609
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31609&order=name
- [Wayback/Archive] trunk/src/wp-admin/js/bookmarklet.js (log) – WordPress Trac: rev=31609
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31584
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31565
- [Wayback/Archive] bookmarklet.js in trunk/src/wp-admin/js – WordPress Trac: rev=31534
- Other GitHub versions
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/blob/add/cs/assets/bookmarklet.js
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/blob/add/cs/assets/bookmarklet.min.js
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/commit/0f7e59d8f10477b7e8399b1ab1c8906229b799d4
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/pull/29 – restore bookmarklet feature
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/pull/29/commits/bbe42d896937bbf199c7d3e7c1df8d1dde405260 (has restored
bookmarklet.jsandbookmarklet.min.js) - https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/pull/29/commits/557bf59f24be9a0c8f2e859f423b8c9fe009c40a (documentation including the version 4.9 remark I mentioned above)
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/blame/trunk/assets/bookmarklet.js – just one commit; need to figure out where the history is on core
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/issues/15 – restore bookmarklet issue
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/issues/17 – on the extraction process of Press-This from the WordPress Core into a separate plugin (that by default is included on WordPress.com blogs)
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/commits/trunk – main branch
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/commits/improve/bookmarklet – newer than main
- https://github.com/WordPress/press-this/blob/improve/bookmarklet/assets/bookmarklet.js (there is no
bookmarklet.min.js)
- Gists
- Documentation
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This (which documents the parameters)
-
Technical Note
Using this bookmarklet to publish posts does not pass the $_POST['post_type'] variable with the value of “post”.
The bookmark calls
http://example.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=&t=&s=&i=u= the url of the current paget= the title of the current pages= the text selection from the current pagei= url of an image file
-
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Press_This (which documents the parameters)
- Git and GitHub related questions:
- My earlier blog posts:
I want to figure out:
- what the values of the
v=version parameter were (I know aboutv=8andv=4, there are likely more) - which commits were involved
- can I get more information (like summary, first heading or first paragraph of a page too)
- what techniques are used for opening new windows/tabs
TODO: make diffs of the various versions
–jeroen
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Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/22
TL;DR:
javascript:{h=location.href;open('https://archive.is/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(h));location.href='https://web.archive.org/save/'+(h)}
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