Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/28
Code quality courses have been an ancient art: this video turned 50 this year (:
[Wayback/Archive] Critical Program Reading (1975) – 16mm Film – YouTube
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Mac 💉💉🦠 on Twitter: “Critical Program Reading, a 16mm film from 1975 dug up by @TechConnectify about Structured Programming techniques … “Code unto others as you would have others code unto you.” (cc @KevlinHenney)” / Twitter
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/27
The tweet [WaybackSave/Archive] Jakub Kočí on X: “”Everybody should have an obsession with Lisp-like language at least once in their life” @KevlinHenney I’m glad that I had one with Clojure.” mentioned a great talk:
[Wayback/Archive] The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2024 – YouTube
The quote brought instant memories to my early computing days that I had almost forgotten: the muMATH (the muMATH-80 version on Apple II) computer algebra system which was based on muLISP (the German muLISP page has more detailed information), a LISP dialect.
In retrospect, I was way too young to really grasp LISP which was way harder than just using the muMATH wrapper. But it was also my first encounter to reasoning systems, or what we now collectively would call AI systems as back in the 70s there was a strong LISP connection to artificial intelligence . Do not confuse muMath with MuMath-Code however, that is a different LLM beast: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – youweihao-tal/MuMath-Code
So hopefully I will have a chance to revisit LISP with a LISP-like language one day, maybe even using the discontinued muMATH-83 on MS-DOS (also named “Microsoft LISP“), maybe even the (also discontinued) Derive 6.1 for Windows which is also based on muLISP, or even Clojure itself.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/27
The odd thing is that SourceForge has (sf.net) a GitHub project importer (for more than 10 years now!), but not vice versa. You can import a SVN repository in GitHub, but that’s far from importing a complete sf.net project.
More on the importer to import GitHub to SourceForge below, but first the other way around:
These steps worked to get xn-resource-editor.sf.net into github.com/jpluimers/XN-Resource-Editor-TWM (which I did because the GitHub web UI is so much better at browsing and searching commits and files than the SourceForge web UI):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/26
Last week I wrote about Example how not to return a HTPP-500 result: Amazon DE – Tut uns Leid!.
Today I found https://archive.is/undefined which consistently returns a HTTP 404 in the HTTP result.
It reminded me of an old (well, what is old anyway <g>) post Best 404 page ever. back in the days (returning both 404 in the HTTP result and page content) I did not yet archive outgoing links (it took me a few more years to realise many URLs are ephemeral and have queued up a post on that for early next year), and found out the site has changed since then. Time for archived and updated links, and a repository too as by now the source has been published on GitHub:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/26
Especially with the documentation for all versions of Delphi 2010 through the second-last version of Delphi have been killed from the docwiki (see The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.), I wish that Embarcadero would put effort into maintaining the [Wayback/Archive] List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow
Currently, the only alternative is the conditional defines from [Wayback/Archive] jedi/jedi.inc at master · project-jedi/jedi and (which in turn is included by for instance [Wayback/Archive] jcl/jcl.inc at master · project-jedi/jcl and [Wayback/Archive] jvcl/jvcl.inc at master · project-jedi/jvcl, but that one does not provide links to existing documentation.
Thanks to all the maintainers on Stack Overflow that have tirelessly edited this answer over and over again to keep it up to date on current and past Delphi versions, see [Wayback/Archive] Revisions to List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Server Overflow.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/25
[Wayback/Archive] XBlock Screenshot Labeller (@xblock.aendra.dev) — Bluesky
Hopefully documentation will be expanded beyond these two thin pages:
Via [Wayback/Archive] Post by @henkbulder.nl — Bluesky
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/25
I was looking for a way to measure Windows disk performance from the console as I was used to using the [Wayback/Archive] CrystalDiskMark GUI measurement tool.
So I was glad to learn a few years back at the end of 2022 that [Wayback/Archive] CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4c is based on [Wayback/Archive] DISKSPD 2.0.21a. Which back then was an older version as [Wayback/Archive] DISKSPD 2.1 had been released fall 2021.
I found this out via [Wayback/Archive] Performance benchmarking with CrystalDiskMark on Nutanix: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22
The innards of these devices and how those work are so cool: [Wayback/Archive] Inside a cheap set of eBay digital calipers – YouTube
It should be noted that the quiescent current of these devices is around 18uA, even when off (the display goes off until movement is detected).
Some users are reporting a very short battery life, but a typical 100mAh (0.1Ah) button cell should be able to supply 0.00002A for a very long time. (Theoretically 100’s of days.)The linear capacitive encoder in these units is very impressive. The physical encoder is seemingly very simple, with the bulk of the work being done by the ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit). It’s very similar in its cost optimisation to the cheap, but super-accurate weighing scales.
I’m really impressed by the accuracy of these units for their price. They are very common on eBay for as little as £5 (about $7 USD).
Via [Wayback/Archive] Discord | #3d-print-cnc-kleien-figuurzagen | Angrynerds Podcast
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22
Need to figure out where the ArchiveTeam will be uploading the below archive, as this will help me figure out which links in post blogs I will need to update.
Also, Google never got back to me with an answer what to do with various map and image related shortened URLs for which they themselves also use the goo.gl domain.
[Wayback/Archive] ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links – hckrnws
Related:
items 3.75B done + 0 to do data 286.57 TiB 81.95KiB/u
Query: [Wayback/Archive] ArchiveTeam goo.gl at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22
[Wayback/Archive] Privacy Policy – Bluesky
8. Personal Data We Collect
We process, or our third-party providers may process for us, different kinds of Personal Data:
- Personal Data you provide
- …
- Your Direct Messages. We store and process your direct messages so you can communicate directly with other users on the Bluesky App. These are unencrypted and can be accessed for Trust & Safety purposes.
- …
…
was part of an update set including these:
I tried using the Wayback Machine to compare these to previous versions, but that did not succeed. Check for instance this comparison.
--jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 