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The confusing case of two Android “NFC TagInfo” apps

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/15

For a long time, I had an “NFC TagInfo” app on my phone. It worked well, and combined simplicity with straightforward easy use.

To my dismay, when upgrading to a new phone, the icon had been copied over, but the app was unavailable as per the cropped¹ image on the right.

The important message there was “Your device isn’t compatible with this version” which, as I quickly discovered, means “This app has not been updated to be compatible with the Android version you run” (without telling up until which Android version it would run on).

What I however initially missed on the screenshot was the [Wayback/Archive] Michael Roland bit (this is his Stack Overflow profile link where he, as on [Wayback/Archive] User Michael Roland – Stack Exchange, explicitly mentions [Wayback/Archive] NFC TagInfo – Apps on Google Play²).

However, when you search you get another NFC TagInfo app: NFC TagInfo by NXP.

The confusing bit

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skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/15

This is a cool library which I missed when it was introduced while recovering from my extensive cancer treatments:

[Wayback/Archive] skia4delphi/skia4delphi: Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi platforms based on Google’s Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images.

Skia4Delphi is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for Delphi based on Google’s Skia graphics library.

The foundation is the cross platform Google 2D Skia Graphics Engine:

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From 2023: It’s Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated – miguelgrinberg.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/14

I forgot how I bumped into this, but a while ago I found this interesting 2023 post: [Wayback/Archive] It’s Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated – miguelgrinberg.com explaining naive (without time zone) and aware (with time zone) date time objects.

It reminded me of Delphi, where NowUTC – as Delphi does have neither naive or aware date time objects – returns  a floating point value (yes, it has a separate TDateTime type, but it represents the number of days that have passed since December 30, 1899 which in face stems from the Windows OLE Automation era* (OLE Automation is a subset of COM), see [Wayback/Archive] DateTime.ToOADate Method (System) | Microsoft Learn.

That method is mentioned in [Wayback/Archive] Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide – YouTube and Delphi deserves a way better infrastructure of date and time handling.

So this post is also a reminder to myself: figure out if there is an object oriented DateTime library for Delphi yet, and if not see if there is interest to create one similar to [Wayback/Archive] Noda Time | Date and time API for .NET by Jon Skeet.

Delphi references

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Algorism and algorithm are named after Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, founder of algebra (via @annefleurdd)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/14

I was in my 50s when I learned that both algorism and algorithm are named after the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi who founded algebra.

Related:

Via:

–jeroen

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Draad van @Walrathis expert in psychotraumatologie on Thread Reader App – over crisisrespons tijdens Oktoberfest 2025

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/13

Een inzichtvolle draad: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @Walrathis on Thread Reader App

Enkele onderwerpen:

  • tijdlijn
  • opschalen
  • compartimenteren
  • regie hebben en houden
  • communicatie
  • suicide postventie
  • briefing/debriefing
  • evenementen

Uiteraard dit: Denk je aan zelfmoord? Neem contact op met 113, dat kan altijd gratis en anoniem: bellen via 113 of 0800-0113, of via de chat of teletolk op [Wayback/Archive] Homepage | 113 Zelfmoordpreventie.

Gerelateerd

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Domotica/IoT: Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/13

Interesting ideas about home automation, domotics and IoT:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Tweakers
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verlichting – Tweakers
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huishoudelijke taken – Tweakers
  4. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Huisgenoten en -dieren – Tweakers
  5. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Verwarming, klimaat en energiegebruik – Tweakers
  6. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Multimedia – Tweakers
  7. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers
  8. [Wayback/Archive] Smarthometweaks uit de community – Platform en automatiseringsfilosofie – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Figuring out the RSS feed of a web-site

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/10

RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)

RSS feed icon (source: Wikipedia)

The main way I consume news is through RSS feeds using Feedly as reader (after Google killed one of their best products: Google Reader in 2013). Many web-site do not show an RSS link or RSS icon on their home pages or other pages.

Below samples of sites followed by steps on how to find RSS Feeds.

From local examples I encountered most didn’t show they had RSS feeds or had not RSS feed at all:

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I was in my 50’s discovering Panopticlick 3.0 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/10

Boy, I must have lived under a stone as it took me some 6 years to discover [Wayback/Archive] Panopticlick 3.0 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Check your browser and settings at [Wayback/Archive] Cover Your Tracks.

More information at [Wayback/Archive] Cover Your Tracks: See how trackers view your browser.

Via

–jeroen

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ibm midrange – Syntax higlighters for RPG And CLP that generate HTML and/or RTF? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/09

In case I ever need this for the future: [Wayback/Archive] ibm midrange – Syntax higlighters for RPG And CLP that generate HTML and/or RTF? – Stack Overflow

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] aaronbartell and [Wayback/Archive] Mike Wills for your answers there.

Oh, an if you wonder what these ancient abbreviations mean:

--jeroen

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auroraoss.com: AuroraStore can help to bypass Google Play Store region blocks

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/09

[Wayback/Archive] auroraoss.com

Via:

–jeroen

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