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Reminder to self: check if other internet providers can deliver over the “Open” Dutch Fiber network

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/06

When “Open” Dutch Fiber (ODF) builds a fiber network, the internet provider Odido (ex T-Mobile Netherlands) gets a year exclusive use of the infrastructure.

In practice that is longer (see below tweets why), and for me it might become almost 2 years after ODF announced they would start building the local fiber network in the area where I live: [Wayback/Archive] [Odido Glasvezel] Ervaringen & Discussie – Internet en hosting – GoT.

You really do not want Odido, as they do NOT support IPv6 (I have Does Odido (the old T-Mobile Netherlands) which took over Tweak Internet (they supported IPv6) already support IPv6? scheduled on that).

Currently Odido does a lot of colportage, even threatening that copper will be phased out – yeah, that is going to take years! – likely because their exclusivity period is about to end. Which is a reminder for me to check if other providers can already deliver over the ODF network.

Dates to remember:

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Wanneer de papierkliko stuk of gestolen is: Ik heb een vraag of melding over mijn rolcontainer. Waar kan ik terecht? – Gemeente Amsterdam

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/06

Voor mijn link-archief: [Wayback/Archive] Ik heb een vraag of melding over mijn rolcontainer. Waar kan ik terecht? – Gemeente Amsterdam

--jeroen

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On my list of tools to check out RustDesk (as replacement for TeamViewer, Remote Desktop and similar)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/05

For non-Windows systems, I have used TeamViewer in the past and when they started being obnoxious reverted mostly to VNC derived alternatives. For Windows, I’d usually combined VPN with Remote Desktop.

Recently, I found out that during my first rectum cancer year (and for others, the first COVID-19 year), the development of RustDesk – which can be self-hosted – started as an open source project on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – rustdesk/rustdesk: An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer. with their first commit being [Wayback/Archive] Initial commit · wabarc/wayback@650ea87 · GitHub.

I got pointed to this in [Wayback/Archive] Your Remote Desktop SUCKS!! Try this instead (FREE + Open Source) – YouTube.

One of the main things to figure out is how reliably RustDesk does firewall hole punching*.

Another personal interest is to learn more about Rust and Dart, the main programming languages in which RustDesk is written.

Here are some links:

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html – How to display an unordered list in two columns? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/05

For a, I wanted to a HTML ul list the SQL keywords in multiple columns I was afraid this would be a tough CSS job, but in practice it was way easier than even explained in the below Stack Overflow answers that made me find

[Wayback/Archive] columns – CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN

The columns [Wayback/Archive] CSS shorthand property sets the number of columns to use when drawing an element’s contents, as well as those columns’ widths.

TL;DR:

  • I used <ul style="columns:3">...</ul>
  • For setting column width, this failed in Chrome <ul style="column-count: 2; column-width: 15em;">...</ul>
    but this worked: <ul style="column-count: 2; width: 480px;">...</ul>

Here are the answers:

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Kevlin Henney on encapsulating and restricting Mutability of State to improve software quality

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/04

Important read (5 minutes or so): [Wayback/Archive] Restrict Mutability of State. When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change… | by Kevlin Henney | Feb, 2025 | Medium

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Kevlin Henney on X: “Blogged: Restrict Mutability of State “What appears at first to be a trivial observation turns out to be a subtly important one: a great many software defects arise from the (incorrect) modification of state.” “

--jeroen

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b0rk on Twitter about getting unstuck: “debugging strategy: do the annoying thing”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/04

Not just about getting unstuck during debugging: making progress is often about doing “the annoying thing”.

[Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “debugging strategy: do the annoying thing”:

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Tom Sydney Kerckhove on Twitter: “I haven’t found any programming tasks that an LLM could do even barely correctly. What kind of code are you all writing?!”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/03

Interesting responses [WaybackSave/Archive] Tom Sydney Kerckhove on X: “I haven’t found any programming tasks that an LLM could do even barely correctly. What kind of code are you all writing?!” and later

They all come down to

  • excuses for using LLM without any substantial result (most of the results come down to one having to become the tester and fixer of the generated code without newer generated code being improved: the opposite of coaching an apprentice)
  • become better at prompting (which is basically regarding the prompt as a new programming language: been there, done that)

[WaybackSave/Archive] One of the “become better at prompting” replies referred to a blog post disguising prompting as writing lots of unit tests: [Wayback/Archive] The Cline AI Assistant is Mesmerizing · mtlynch.io

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“How come these shapes are so DIFFICULT??”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/03

Cool video about how developers feel when others (like QA) test or use the software they have just built:

[Wayback/Archive] Devs watching QA test the product – YouTube

I got to the video via [Wayback/Archive] sanja zakovska 🌱 on Twitter: “Devs watching QA test the product… “ to which the author responded with

[Wayback/Archive] Alison Burke on Twitter: “@sanjazakovska Incase anyone needs the resolution 😂😂 follow me on tiktok! vm.tiktok.com/ZMJKeK29a“

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Software Downloads: Download UniFi Network Server – Ubiquiti: also known as UniFi Network application and apparently the successor of the UniFi Controller

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/02

After moving, I wanted to install new UniFi access points and upgrade the firmware of my existing ones.

The Cloud Key running the UniFi Controller software had long died (bringing that to market was a really bad idea from Ubiquiti in my view), so I started looking for UniFi controller software I could run locally.

From past contacts with other UniFi users, I knew there was some kind of Docker solution, but I hard a hard time finding it.

It looks like UniFi has been busy though and have three download lists coming back with essentially the same software, heck even point to the same release notes ([Wayback/Archive] UniFi Network Application 8.6.9 | Ubiquiti Community)

The actual download of the most recent version is at [Wayback/Archive] Software Downloads: Download UniFi Network Server – Ubiquiti.

If I understand [Wayback/Archive] Self-Hosting a UniFi Network Server – Ubiquiti Help Center correctly, what they mean is that the UniFi Network Application is an implementation of a UniFi Network Software that runs on MacOS/Windows/Linux.

You will likely have to download by hand as – especially on Windows – the package managers are versions behind. At the time of writing the version available above was V8.6.9 released 2024-11-06. This is what was on the package managers:

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Lars Boelen op Twitter: hoe koel je je woning ‘s nachts voor als voorbereiding van een hittegolf – laat je huis als schoorsteen werken en voer de warme lucht af

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/02

Een paar jaar terug kwam dit interessante bericht langs van [Wayback/Archive] Lars Boelen 🍃 on Twitter: “Dat kan! En wel door je woning ‘s nacht voor te koelen. Dat doe je door ‘s nachts beneden een raam of deur inbraakveilig open te zetten (dat zal soms wat creativiteit vragen) en zo hoog mogelijk in huis een raam. Het huis gaat daardoor als schoorsteen werken”

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