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Hugo, a static website engine written in Go: I might eventually switch WordPress to it

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/23

A long time ago, when just recovering from my december 2019 rectum cancer radiation treatments, I asked what Hugo was, to which tiara fan Jenn happily replied “[Archive] Jenn on Twitter: “It is a static website engine written in Go, … ““.

Like me, writing down or trying stuff is her way to remember things: [Archive] Jenn on Twitter: “For some reason, handwriting terminal commands helps to cement them in my head.… “

In 2021, Isotopp moved over to Hugo and I kindly asked if in the future he would help me out if I wanted to move from WordPress to Hugo.

The thread:

I will need to find a way to schedule posts though.

Note I archived Isotopp’s full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @isotopp on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App.

–jeroen

https://twitter.com/geekgalgroks/status/1213574787785744384

It is a static website engine written in Go, https://t.co/msgP26rYRM

Related tweets in August 2020:

https://twitter.com/isotopp/status/1299319847617286146

Wo ich arbeite scheint alles auf ein Markdown im Git und eine Variante von Hugo, Jekyll oder ähnlich zu konvergieren.

https://twitter.com/mausdompteur/status/1299320903524851713

Gitlab Pages für Gitlab Häuser, die nicht schon Jira haben. Mit Web IDE ist das online und Inline zu bedienen.

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Migration from Twitter to Mastodon | ads’ corner

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/22

Yet another interesting post (I think it is via [Wayback/Archive] isotopp, but I cannot find the original message any more): [Wayback/Archive] Migration from Twitter to Mastodon | ads’ corner.

–––jeroen

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A while ago I bumped into some GPI Mojibake examples, but soon found out I should use the ftfy test cases

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/22

I have been into more and more Mojibake example pages like [Wayback] Mojibake: Question Marks, Strange Characters and Other Issues | GPI

Have you ever found strange characters like these ���  when viewing content in applications or websites in other languages?

They made me realise that all these (including the Mojibake examples on my blog) are just artifacts, but the real list of examples is the set of ftfy test cases at [Wayback/Archive.is] python-ftfy/test_cases.json at master · LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy

I got reminded when Waternet moved from paper mail using “Pyreneeën” to email using “Pyreneeën“. Not as bad as Waterschap AGV did earlier: they took it one level further and made “Pyreneeën” out of it, see Last year, a classic Mojibake was introduced when Waterschap Amstel, Gooi en Vecht redesigned their IT systems.

This seems like a trend where newer systems perform worse than older systems. I wonder why that is.

BTW: the trick on the [Wayback/Archive] Python.org shell to run ftfy (which is not installed by default) is first dropping to the shell (see my post How do I drop a bash shell from within Python? – Stack Overflow), then starting python again:

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Posted in CP850, Development, Encoding, ftfy, ISO-8859, Mojibake, Python, Scripting, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8, UTF8 | Leave a Comment »

Polderman: “Alsjeblieft: mijn magische sinterklaasgedichtengenerator!… “

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/21

Voor een jaar waarin corona voorbij is en we toch een Sinterklaasgedicht nodig hebben:

[Archive] Polderman, beslisbomenmaker des vaderlands 🌳 on Twitter: “Alsjeblieft: mijn magische sinterklaasgedichtengenerator!… “

Er is ook een [Wayback/Archive] groot plaatje door [Archive] Bart van der Linden on Twitter: “.@Poldermanie zat te denken, waarom zou ik Nederland niet een magische sinterklaasgedichtengenerator schenken…… “.

Via [Archive] Ionica Smeets on Twitter: “Echt jammer dat ik niet het lootje van Gert-Jan heb.… “.

–jeroen

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Kris helped me motivate to enter the Fediverse, so here I am: @wiert@mastodon.social

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/18

Given Elon Musk taking over Twitter, I decided to create an account in the federated social network Mastodon part of the Fediverse realm. In my case it is [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers (@wiert@mastodon.social) – Mastodon (which you can visit at mastodon.social/@wiert).

Right now the account is rudimentary. More meta-data and media will be added later.

Mastodon is open source at [Wayback/Archive] mastodon/mastodon: Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community and you can join via [Wayback/Archive] Mastodon – Decentralized social media (joinmastodon.org) after choosing a Mastodon server/website. I have chosen [Wayback/Archive] Home – Mastodon (mastodon.social).

Given a Mastodon has a trunk, messages on Mastodon are called “Toots”.

For now some of the Tweets and links that Kris ([Wayback/Archive] Kris (@isotopp@chaos.social) – chaos.social) posted helping me to start on Mastodon.

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I switched from SysInternals’ TcpView to NirSoft’s CurrPorts (cports)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/18

I was a long time user of SysInternals‘ TcpView, but a while back I switched to NirSoft‘s CurrPorts (cports).

The main reason is that TcpView does not support filtering, which in the long past was not a problem since few Windows applications keep TCP connection open.

But nowadays with so many network dependencies, especially when using cloud services like DropBox/OneDrive/GoogleDrive/backblaze, these clutter the view a lot.

NirSoft’s CurrPorts (actually the executable is called [Wayback/Archive] cports.exe) can filter for both inclusion/exclusion on the open ports list based on many parameters (search for the “Using Filters” section in the cports.exe documentation: it’s a little bit below the version history).

The filtering syntax is extensive, and for ease of use, the context menu of the open ports list allows adding include/exclude filters on various parameters. After doing that, you can inspect the filter list to get an idea of possibilities and syntax.

For me, the easiest way to install CurrPorts is through [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CurrPorts 2.65.

I found CurrPorts when trying to figure out how to use filters in TcpView: [Wayback/Archive] tcpview filter by process – Google Search

–jeroen

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.NET: programmatically cutting and pasting files (as opposed to copy/pasting them)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/17

Some notes for my link archive.

A long time ago, I asked [Wayback/Archive] c# – Console application using Clipboard.GetFileDropList: how to check if that came from a cut or copy operation? – Stack Overflow.

Back then, the use case had disappeared, so I didn’t follow up. But a new use case might appear soon, so here it goes:

–jeroen

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Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/16

A long time ago, I posted one of the answers to [Wayback/Archive] Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow

So for my link archive, these are the main ways of assembling an (always incomplete, as only partially documented) list:

–jeroen

Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, EKON, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi | Leave a Comment »

WordPress.com gets it consistently wrong, Twitter has it right: posting time stamps

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/15

UTC and time zones are both hard, especially with respect to scheduling.

The easiest would be to schedule things and store the time zone offsets together with the timestamp, just as ISO 8601 has UTC-relative time zone designators, or alternatively store the region in addition to the timestamp (which can be more user friendly).

When a scheduling system uses local time for schedules, you can expect these will adhere to your local time when the schedule becomes in effect.

So I schedule my posts for 06:00, 12:00 and 18:00 local time during weekdays.

Look what happens:

  1. [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Pro-tip for @wordpressdotcom : fix the scheduler so when you schedule in your local time zone, there is no shift during daylight saving time changes. I schedule all my posts to appear at 06:00 12:00 and 18:00 in my local time. 1/… “
  2. [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “That works fine during winter time, which is ~5 out of 12 months, for example https://t.co/banrMebk2A 2/… “
  3. [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “However 7 out of 12 months, they get posted at 07:00 13:00 and 19:00 local time, for example  3/3… “

Via [Archive.is] Colin Nederkoorn on Twitter: “Pro tip: Don’t schedule recurring meetings in UTC if you live in a place with daylight savings.… “ (which I do not agree with, see my post UTC and ISO 8601, or GTFO).

–jeroen

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Online Familieberichten; Overleden: Leonardus Hendricus Cornelis “Leo” Koelewijn (14-11-2021)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/14

Ter herinnering:

[Wayback/Archive] Online Familieberichten; Overleden: Leonardus Hendricus Cornelis “Leo” Koelewijn (14-11-2021)

[Wayback/Archive] Online Familieberichten; Overleden: Leonardus Hendricus Cornelis “Leo” Koelewijn (14-11-2021)

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Wat een prachtige betrokken vader was dit bij het kanovaren van Stichting de Zevensprong.

–jeroen

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