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TRURL – Free Pascal wiki: a class library for Object Pascal supporting the creation of virtual calculators with reverse Polish notation

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/15

On my list of libraries to play around with: [Wayback/Archive] TRURL – Free Pascal wiki

TRURL is a class library for Object Pascal supporting the creation of virtual calculators with reverse Polish notation (RPN). It comes with demo projects and several ready-to-use calculators for macOS, Linux and Windows.

TRURL is an acronym for “TRURL is a Reusable Universal RPN Library”.

Repositories:

Via [Wayback/Archive] TrurlTeam (@teamtrurl.bsky.social) — Bluesky.

--jeroen

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Rust Playground

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/15

Cool when learning Rust: [Wayback/Archive] Rust Playground.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “trying out something new with my rust advent of code learning — every time I run into a type error I really don’t understand, I’m trying to reproduce it in play.rust-lang.org, save it, and write up some quick notes about what I learned from that error”

A related tweet with blog post is [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “a couple of Rust error messages jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/02/a-couple-of-rust-error-messages: [Wayback/Archive] A couple of Rust error messages

More Rust coverage by b0rk via [Wayback/Archive] from:@b0rk rust – Twitter Search.

–jeroen

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ISD: Nieuwe zorgaanbieders Hulp bij het Huishouden per 1 september 2025

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/14

[Wayback/Archive] ISD: Nieuwe zorgaanbieders Hulp bij het Huishouden per 1 september 2025.

De belangrijkste punten per 1 september 2025:

  • Er is een contract met: Actief Huiszorg BV, Alfa & Zorg BV,
    Centrum Zorg & Welzijn BV, Coöperatie Zorg en Plezier UA, Flexibel Zorg en Welzijn BV, Groenoord Zorgt BV, MIEP BV, Stichting ActiVite, Stichting DSV, Tzorg BV, We Take Care en Zorg Ondersteuning Nederland BV.
  • Er geldt voor Hulp bij het Huishouden dat alleen nog sprake is van Hulp bij het Huishouden met indicaties op basis van tijd. Dat betekent dat er geen sprake meer is van Schoon en Leefbaar

--jeroen

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How to change the ringtone on your doorbell – The Verge

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/14

[Wayback/Archive] How to change the ringtone on your doorbell – The Verge (quote for my Ring camera as I always forget their link):

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Posted in Hardware, IoT Internet of Things, LifeHacker, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Ring Doorbell/Chime (Amazon) | Leave a Comment »

Pushing the Limits: Ultimate Upgrade Journey of a Macintosh SE/30 – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/11

Cool: almost maxed out!

[Wayback/Archive] Pushing the Limits: Ultimate Upgrade Journey of a Macintosh SE/30 – YouTube

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Igor Brigadir posted a few useful Twitter search tips a while back: searching tweets, users, disable auto-URL, embedding media, etc

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/11

For my link archive:

Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

What is the purpose of the ‘figure’ tag in html? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/10

Not being a front-end web-developer, I hadn’t seen¹ the figure element in HTML code before, so here are some links:

TL;DR – figure it is like a div element, but context specific: it groups elements that logically for one figure, including an optional description in the figcaption.

The group can be moved outside the main content flow without changing the meaning of that flow.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] what is a html figure for – Google Search

--jeroen

¹ I surely am not the only one, as the figure element isn’t even on the element usage graph in the [Wayback/Archive] HTML Study – AWR SEO Guide.

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badamczewski/PowerUp: ⚡ Decompilation Tools and High Productivity Utilities ⚡

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/10

Below is a really cool tool-set for Visual Studio Code of which its development started when I was recovering from life-saving bowel-surgery during the series of procedures to get rid of my metastasised rectum cancer.

It supports decompilation of various languages (.NET C# and F#, GO, Rust and clang) into either x86 assembler or IR (Intermediate Representation, on the .NET side often also called IL for Intermediate Language) to research how well a compiler stack behaves.

[Wayback/Archive] badamczewski/PowerUp: ⚡ Decompilation Tools and High Productivity Utilities ⚡:

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[OpenWrt Wiki] MikroTik

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/09

I wasn’t aware that [Wayback/Archive] [OpenWrt Wiki] MikroTik was available. Many devices are incomplete in support, but it is good to know there is an alternative to the buggy scripting interface of RouterOS.

For the hEX series, support seems good enough to give it a try this summer, but I need to figure out of the hEX PoE RB960PGS is supported. I have good hopes as other models of the RB9* series are.

A few warnings from the below links:

  • First Things First: Don’t Lose Your RouterOS License
  • OpenWrt is not compatible with the bootloader of RouterOS v7. Do NOT upgrade the firmware on your device to RouterOS v7 or, if you did, downgrade to RouterOS Firmware v6 before installing OpenWrt. RouterOS doesn’t allow to downgrade below factory firmware version, but OpenWrt boots and works fine with versions up to 6.49.10 or beyond. Confirmed working: 6.47.10 (tested on SXTsq 5 ac), 6.49.10 (tested on SXTsq 2nD).
  • If the installation fails, you might need to upgrade/downgrade to RouterOS 6.49.2
  • Warning: Don’t upgrade RouterOS packages & bootloader to 7.2.1 otherwise ‘sysupgrade image’ install will fail!
  • If latested release of RouterOS does not work, try an older version. 6.45 is reportet to work as a first debrick, you can upgrade later with the Winbox Software to latest release

These hEX related models are supported on the web-site (which also explains major differences with Fast Ethernet (100 Mbit/s) and Gigabit Ethernet (1 Gbit/s) models:

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Alex’s Bookmarklets – New Twitter RSS Bookmarklet, Font Bookmarklet

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/09

Some entries for my inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] Alex’s Bookmarklets – New Twitter RSS Bookmarklet, Font Bookmarklet

–jeroen

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