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30+ years of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines from 1985 (and earlier Lisa / Apple II equivalents)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25

I hope someone has also archived all these in the Internet Archive as this is a great collection of historic material: [WaybackSave/Archive] GitHub – gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, et al.

If you have more of them: add them via a pull-request.

Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion : Apple : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A client that went belly up in the early 1990s had all these and similar books. In retrospect, I though have found a way to obtain them but back then I didn’t value the uniqueness of them enough and didn’t have the storage space for it (I lived in a 30m² apartment).

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Tefal secure 5 neo snelkookpan – Lauriekoek

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25

Op de wensenlijst: [Wayback/A] Tefal secure 5 neo snelkookpan – Lauriekoek

De pan lijkt goedkoper in Duitsland dan in Nederland.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Terug van nooit echt weggeweest: de snelkookpan – Lauriekoek.

EU Amazon prijzen [Wayback/Archive] HotEuDeals Search Result – Tefal secure 5 neo

--jeroen

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bash alias to decode email Quoted-Printable stdin data

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25

Perl isn’t my strength, so I was glad to find the below links that inspired me to add this bash function to my profile decoding Quote-Printable email data (for instance used by sendmail and postfix to store SMTP message files):

# https://superuser.com/questions/1452249/fix-revert-wrong-encoding-of-file
function sendmail-decode-quoted-printable-from-stdin() {
  perl -0777 -ne 'use MIME::QuotedPrint; print decode_qp($_)'
}

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Perl, Power User, Python, Scripting, sendmail, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Kanovaartochten langs Lisse en Sassenheim

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/24

Wat verderop kanoroutes met her en der met genummerde stappen rondom Lisse en Sassenheim.

Maar eerst wat linkjes die helpen gegevens over obstructies en hoogtes van bruggen te vinden:

De Kanovereniging Lisse verhuurt geen kano, maar via [Wayback/Archive] Kanoën tussen de bollenvelden in Lisse en Hillegom – Travel Blondie NL bedacht ik me dat er meerdere verhuurmogelijkheden zijn, waaronder:

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GitHub – geerlingguy/retro-computers: Retro Computers – Info and status for all my retro Macs, PCs, gaming systems…

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/24

Interesting, especially the early classic Macintosh and Apple II machinery: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – geerlingguy/retro-computers: Retro Computers – Info and status for all my retro Macs, PCs, gaming systems…

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Saving my Aunt’s 1991 Mac Classic: Tear it apart, don’t turn it on! – YouTube

--jeroen

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Some notes on Wikipedia tags for references, citing URLs that are archived like in the Wayback Machine

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/24

Used it for instance for this edit: [Wayback/Archive] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: verschil tussen versies – Wikipedia.

–jeroen

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mutool: all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/23

Sometimes I feel like having lived under a rock for ages despite trying to live the command-line life as much as possible.

Anyway: not that long ago I learned about [Wayback/Archive] mutool: all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier

It is part of [Wayback/Archive] Package mupdf – man pages | ManKier which also has [Wayback/Archive] mupdf: MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer written in portable C | mupdf Commands | Man Pages | ManKier.

MuPDF – a kind of sibling to GhostScript – lives at [Wayback/Archive] MuPDF: The ultimate library for managing PDF documents.

The below query got me to [Wayback/Archive] mupdf/docs/man/mutool.1 at master · ccxvii/mupdf · GitHub in the “wrong” repository [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ccxvii/mupdf: mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git

The actual repositories are at:

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433 MHz is not dead! Using an ESP32 board with LoRa module to talk to 433 MHz sensors – CNX Software

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/23

This was a cool post: [Wayback/Archive] 433 MHz is not dead! Using an ESP32 board with LoRa module to talk to 433 MHz sensors – CNX Software

433MHz LoRa Transceiver-based ESP32 board work with regular 433 MHz sensors found on the market. This gives end users a simple off-the-shelf solution for receiving these signals without having to use a soldering iron and making a circuit.

This opens many doors regarding 433 MHz sensor readings with one device, including weather stations, doors, PIR, TPMS, temperature, and BBQ sensors.
Recommended reading!

Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making your RF 433mhz sensors and devices communicate with your home automation, gateways comparison

–jeroen

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Coronaprik najaar 2025: periode van 15 september tot en met 5 december 2025

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/22

Sinds vorige week tot 5 december 2025 kun je weer een Covid-19 vaccinatie krijgen.

Iedereen die wil kan een afspraak maken via telefoonnummer 0800-7070 of via de eerste link hieronder.

Linkjes:

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Dr. Christopher Kunz: “To whom it may concern: It is …” – chaos.social

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/22

[Wayback/A] Dr. Christopher Kunz: “To whom it may concern: It is …” – chaos.social

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