Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/09
I used the tips at [Archive.is] Digitally Free: Censor An Image In GIMP to ensure some sensitive information was redacted from a picture I published on the internet.
dfree got much further than I needed, so I stayed at a Gaussian Blur with an 80 pixel radius which was more than enough to blur out a few rectangular areas but still show the user-experience of the underlying controls.
–jeroen
Source: Digitally Free: Censor An Image In GIMP
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/09
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/08
This week I learned that two people I had known from the early Delphi and C# days have passed away recently:
It’s tough to digest their passing right when starting radiation therapy next week, preparing for surgery in a few months time, my wife having surgery next week, and all of us already having a tough year behind us.
I wish to express my condolences to the families and friends of Mark and Pepijn, especially in the months to come when the world at large has moved on, but the sudden memories and pain still violently kick in.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/06
For my link archive:
Normally you can’t obtain bootable media of macOS. OS X was a different story, but also you had to pay for those versions. As an owner of a MacBook Pro, it’s slightly unsettling that I …
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hdiutil create -o /tmp/HighSierra.cdr -size 5200m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J hdiutil attach /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg -noverify -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/install_build mv /tmp/HighSierra.cdr.dmg ~/Desktop/InstallSystem.dmg hdiutil detach /Volumes/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra hdiutil convert ~/Desktop/InstallSystem.dmg -format UDTO -o ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso mv ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso.cdr ~/Desktop/HighSierra.iso |
If you want it on USB in stead, the steps are simpler (the link below also links to other OS X and MacOS versions):
If you do not have the full ~5 gigabyte install, then:
Many Mac users who are attempting to download macOS High Sierra from the Mac App Store will find that a small 19 MB version of “Install macOS High Sierra.app” downloads to the /Applicat…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/06
With Google Sites, you you can attach it to your domain like example.org.
In practice the
example.orgdomain is not bound to Google Sites, but everywhere in this post, please substituteexample.orgwith your own domain name.
In Google Sites, you can design web-sites and create “web address mapping” entries for it. However, you can only add a site mapping for a sub-domain.
But what if you want your www.example.org also to be visible as from example.org?
Then you get a nice error message “Required field must not be blank”:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/06
A while back I had a 
after 
.
The problem is that after a successful “Provisioning your Google Cloud Shell machine”, the “Establishing connection to your Google Cloud Shell” did not go away, while the Cloud Shell Code Editor did work:
It was an awful situation, as the mobile reception was bad (so I could not start a hotspot), and the WiFi did not allow for SSH or VPN connections: exactly the situation where Google Cloud Shell is designed for.
A day later it was fine, so I am still not sure what went wrong, nor how I could get it to work if it ever fails again.
Anyone with an idea?
These are inconclusive:
It is a different problem than [WayBack] Google App Engine – cloud shell where both the shell and the code editor failed at the same time.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/05
Interesting: [WayBack] Playing around with semantic typing in Oxygene: https://github.com/carlokok/semantictyping adding operators and methods to type aliases to store distin… – Carlo Kok – Google+
Playing around with semantic typing in Oxygene: https://github.com/carlokok/semantictyping adding operators and methods to type aliases to store distinct types like distance, speed, acceleration while storing them as floats.
Check the repository linked; It essentially has types like Kelvin, Celsius ( https://github.com/carlokok/semantictyping/blob/master/SemanticTyping/Temperature.pas ), and Speed, Velocity, Acceleration ( https://github.com/carlokok/semantictyping/blob/master/SemanticTyping/Physics.pas ) using standard Oxygene features.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/05
This is a reminder to myself to checkout [WayBack] RAD Studio Custom Editor Sub-views – Dave’s Development Blog and see if his [WayBack] Browse and Doc It plugin now supports the editor sub-views.
He also has a great free tool for Delphi: [WayBack] IDE Explorer – Dave’s Development Blog
–jeroen
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/05
Over 1200 people work at bol.com and our IT department consists of more than 350 engineers, clustered into 60 cross-functional teams. These teams are all grouped in fleets and spaces. Staying organized at this scale is definitely a challenge. To make this happen, we optimize for autonomy, mastery, purpose and ownership
Bol.com has posted three videos on how they organise their IT made by [WayBack] Jurriaan Kamer.
It is a quite interesting series to watch and compare it to the organisation(s) you work for.
Source: [WayBack] Video: How does IT work? – Bol.com Techlab
Via: [WayBack] “Staying organized at this scale is definitely a challenge. To make this happen, we optimize for autonomy, mastery, purpose and ownership.” – Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/04
[WayBack] Ingo Philipp on Twitter: “Top ten songs for #testers and #developers at #StarWest. I suggest “I see fire” (Ed Sheeran).… “
Top 10 songs for testers Top songs for developers
Via [WayBack] Top ten songs for #testers and #developers at #StarWest. I suggest “I see fire” (Ed Sheeran). – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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