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Unicode spaces

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/25

For my link archive:

Via: [WyBack] Are there blank characters in unicode that have the same widths as period, comma and digits? – Lars Fosdal – Google+

Answer: no, though better fonts have period, comma, colon, semicolon and other punctuations the same width as the punctuation space.

The use-case:

Lars Fosdal
I wanted right justified text without having to do custom positioning/drawing – where the decimal zero is white space.

F.x. here 12 instead of 12.0

9.5
11.6
12 <– #$2008 and #$2007
13.4

I.e. PunctuationSpace and FigureSpace

I don’t want to deal with positioning/rendering since it happens inside a third party component.

–jeroen

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Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/25

[WayBack] Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

via:

–jeroen

Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Object Pascal, Pascal, Software Development | 4 Comments »

Dashcam Viewer – By Earthshine Software

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/24

Cool piece of software that allows you to view front and rear cameras in one view: [WayBack] Dashcam Viewer – By Earthshine Software:

Picture-in-picture front and rear camera displays for 2-channel dashcams ✔ ✔
Swappable front and rear camera views for 2-channel dashcams ✔ ✔

The free version is limited to play 5 files in succession (which is about 15 minutes).

–jeroen

 

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Fritz!Box – capture network packets in Wireshark (tshark/tcpdump) format or ISDN in dtrace format

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/24

You can capture network packets on a Fritz!Box for any interface by:

  1. appending `/html/capture.html` to the IP address of your Fritz!Box
  2. providing your credentials
  3. for ISDN traces optionally entering any dtrace parameters in the edit box
  4. pressing the Start button for the port you want to capture
  5. pressing the Stop button when you are finished capturing

Example URL: 192.168.178.1/html/capture.html

Note it’s ISDN [WayBack] Dtrace – Fritz!Box, not nx kernel [WayBack] DTrace – Wikipedia

I’ve seen this on these devices:

  • Fritz!Box 7360 running FRITZ!OS 06.30
  • Fritz!Box 7490 running FRITZ!OS: 06.83

Note there are tons of tools allowing to capture from various scripting languages:

–jeroen

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For Love of Software: Nano Server on AWS: Step by Step

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/24

Source: [WayBack] For Love of Software: Nano Server on AWS: Step by Step

Via: [WayBack] Ann Lynnworth – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Power User, Windows, Windows Server 2016 | Leave a Comment »

If you use Session Buddy, you might want to reconsider: it only saves the session infrequently

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/22

I was shocked reading [WayBack] An alternative to Session Buddy: “Tabs Backup & Restore” · Issue #742 · deanoemcke/thegreatsuspender · GitHub: the save frequency is about 1 per browser restart. Which is quite odd when you use it to protect against tabs messing up (it happens, right when you do not expect it, after which a “Restore” by chrome fails too).

So after years of using

[Archive.is] Session Buddy – Chrome Web Store: Manage Browser Tabs and Bookmarks with Ease

I have switched away to

[WayBack] Tabs Backup & Restore – Chrome Web Store: With ‘Tabs Backup & Restore’ you will never lose your work again! Backup an entire Chrome session (windows and tabs).

–jeroen

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pure-bash-bible/README.md – book for doing things in bash without external tools

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/21

[WayBack] pure-bash-bible/README.md at master · dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible · GitHub:

The goal of this book is to document known and unknown methods of doing various tasks using only built-in bash features. Using the snippets from this bible can help remove unneeded dependencies from scripts and in most cases make them faster. I came across these tips and discovered a few while developing neofetch, pxltrm and other smaller projects.

The snippets below are linted using shellcheck and tests have been written where applicable. Want to contribute? Read the CONTRIBUTING.md. It outlines how the unit tests work and what is required when adding snippets to the bible.

See something incorrectly described, buggy or outright wrong? Open an issue or send a pull request. If the bible is missing something, open an issue and a solution will be found.

Via:

—jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/21

Interesting tool:

I wrote a program to clean up scans of handwritten notes while simultaneously reducing file size.

Source: Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes [WayBack]

via:

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TJoe’s personal favorite in form, function, and simplicity… paper plane!

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/21


TJoe’s personal favorite in form, function, and simplicity.

Joe Heche is completely right:

  1. Just look at the plane.
  2. Then try to imagine how far it will go.
  3. Now watch the video below.
  4. Then compare it to how to build the longest flying paper plane building videos and flight videos after that.

Isn’t the one on the right brilliant?

Source: National Paper Airplane Day TJoe’s personal favorite in form, function, and simplicity…

Thanks Joe!

–jeroen

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20 things you didn’t know you could do with Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/20

After [WayBack] 20 years of Google: [WayBack] 20 things you didn’t know you could do with Search: Read the rest of this entry »

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