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camerahacks/rpilocator-rss-feed: rpilocator RSS Feed Notifications

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/04

On my list to experiment with is [Wayback/Archive] camerahacks/rpilocator-rss-feed:

This is the official rpilocator.com and hwlocator.com RSS feed reader and push notification scripts and Node-RED flows. The RSS feed is checked every minute and the script/flow sends a push notification when a product comes in stock.

Send ntfy, Pushbullet, Pushover or Gotify notifications to your device.

I only knew one of the above services, so here I have listed links to all of them:

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Launch Settings Pages using ms-settings URL shortcuts » Winhelponline

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/03

This post from 2023 [Wayback/Archive] Launch Settings Pages using ms-settings URL shortcuts » Winhelponline

This list will tremendously help me quickly navigating directly to Windows settings pages.

In case the list is not complete, there are others lists – like [Wayback/Archive] Windows 11 ms-settings Commands (Settings URI Shortcuts) – which I found via the second query.

Maybe one day, I will merge the results of a few of those results. If so, a new blog post will follow.

Got the first via a late edit of my blog post gsudo (sudo for windows).

Queries:

--jeroen

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Buddy (software) – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/03

Interesting: Buddy (software) – Wikipedia

Buddy (also known as Buddy.Works) is a web-based and self-hosted continuous integration and delivery software for Git developers that can be used to buildtest and deploy web sites and applications with code from GitHubBitbucket and GitLab. It employs Docker containers with pre-installed languages and frameworks for builds, alongside DevOps, monitoring and notification actions.

On my list of things to try in case built-in GitGub and GitLab functionality does not suffice my needs any more.

I wonder how well it runs on ARM architecture.

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Containers, Continuous Integration, Development, DevOps, Docker, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, GitLab, Infrastructure, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Weerstand van koperdraad – Koperdraad: Gegevens – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/02

Voor warmteontwikkeling in koperkabel was ik benieuwd wat de weerstand voor diverse diameters was.

Gelukkig heeft de Nederlandse pagina Koperdraad: Gegevens – Wikipedia deze tabel (let op weerstand is per 100m!)¹

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Badger 2040 – Badger + Accessory Kit – Pimoroni

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/02

An image of Badger 2040Want: [Wayback/Archive] Badger 2040 – Badger + Accessory Kit – Pimoroni

A hackable, programmable badge with E Ink® display, powered by Raspberry Pi RP2040.

Via

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A Practically Invisible remote Microphone… – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/01

Interesting tiny battery powered remote Lavalier microphone with USB-C receiver: [Wayback/Archive] It’s Practically Invisible…

The video covers the Hollyland LARKM2S.

I wonder about other devices like it.

--jeroen

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Security alarm provider Woonveilig/Egardia really needs to work on their notifications towards end-users: outages are too frequend and not communicationed on to their customers

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/01

This was no incident:

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “Als zowel @WoonVeilig als @Egardia op 2 verschillende systemen een systeemtest failure geven en de apps 500-errors weet je dat hun infrastructuur plat ligt. Al een paar uur geleden, dus heel benieuwd hoe snel ze hun engineers wakker kunnen bellen.”

One of the problem is that Egardia/Woonveilig sees their social media channels as a broadcast-only. You can for instance se this when searching doing a [Wayback/Archive] egardia – Twitter Search or [Wayback/Archive] woonveilig – Twitter Search: no answers from them.

There were similar incidents in the past which I did not document on Twitter, but this outage was so large I had to documented it. So I started the [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App with these images:

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Is this the ultimate XKCD “Dependency” derivative?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29

xkcd modern digital infrastructure torn down by a satisfied looking cat

Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:

  • fiber outage of the Internet Archive
  • DoS of Cloudflare by itself
  • AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
  • Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
  • framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
  • many more¹

Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:

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Solving problems with iCloud Keychain syncing between devices

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/28

Query: [Wayback/Archive] share keychain access over icloud multiple macbook – Google Search

--jeroen

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Karateka IBM PC Model 5150 Longplay – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/28

Karateka (which appeared way before the even more famous Prince of Persia which appeared 5 years later) memories of the past, for which I totally agree with the conclusion: the game on Apple ][ was way better:

[Wayback/Archive] 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕝𝕪 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕜𝕚𝕟💾 on Twitter: “@textfiles Jordan’s opinion on the IBM version”

JULY 31, 1986 Just looked at the JULY 31, 1986
Just looked at the “final” version of PC Karateka. It seemed OK, I guessed, except for overall sluggishness, frequent disk accesses, and a few minor graphics glitches. Then I booted up the Apple version to compare… and it was so smooth, it made me want to cry.
The PC version is maybe 50% of what it should be. I can’t even tell these guys s what to fix… it’s a million little things, and they’re just not up to the hassle. That kind of attention to detail is why the Apple version took me two years. This version is probably the best I’ll ever get out of them.

You can play the PC version online at [Wayback/Archive] Karateka IBM Version 1986-01-30 (1986-02-04) (ID 0873) : Jordan Mechner : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Internal Alpha version (1986-01-30) of the IBM port of Karateka by Jordan Mechner.

It was ported to many platforms, and there was a great documentary too. So there are more YouTube links below than [Wayback/Archive] Karateka IBM PC Model 5150 Longplay – YouTube which has this great description:

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