Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/02
On the very early adoption of the spacing in the typography:
Ooit wel eens stilgestaan bij het iets te grote gat tussen de woorden Heineken en Brouwerij op de Stadhouderskade? Of waarom de belettering op bruggen in de stad zo ‘Amsterdams’ aandoet? Waarschijnlijk niet. Typograaf Bas Jacobs deed dat wel. Zijn ontdekkingen bundelde hij in een speciale toeristengids.
A small book (just EUR 15) tells you more about his Amsterdam findings: Safari Typo Amsterdam
Source: [WayBack] Waar komt Heineken spatie Brouwerij eigenlijk vandaan? – AT5: de nieuwszender van Amsterdam en omgeving
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/01
Long read: [WayBack] Exclusive: The Silicon Valley quest to preserve Stephen Hawking’s voice – San Francisco Chronicle
Eric Dorsey, a 62-year-old engineer in Palo Alto, was watching TV Tuesday night when he started getting texts that Stephen Hawking had died. He turned on the news and saw clips of the famed physicist speaking in his iconic android voice – the voice that Dorsey had spent so much time as a young man helping to create, and then, much later, to save from destruction. Dorsey and Hawking had first met nearly 30 years earlier to the day. In March 1988, Hawking was visiting UC Berkeley during a three-week lecture tour. At 46, Hawking was already famous for his discoveries about quantum physics and black holes, but not as famous as he was about to be.
Via: [WayBack] Steven Hawkings last voice was a Pi. – Tim Rowledge – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/01
Find one of these in all levels:
See Waldo again [WayBack]
- On your computer, open Google Maps.
- Click Menu
Location sharing.
- Point to Waldo.
- Click Show on map.
Play Where’s Waldo in Google Maps
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/31
I both understand the [WayBack] Urgent security advisory – MikroTik and the users reluctant to upgrade: Mikrotik has a history of updates breaking existing behaviour and underdocumenting features and release notes.
The attack is over the www or www-ssl services which by default run on port 80 and 443. You can see on which networks they are bound using this example from the terminal:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/30
Now any of your Google Home devices can connect to other Bluetooth speakers so you can control your entertainment experience simply using the sound of your voice.
Multi-room audio through your Google Home device with “follow-me” behaviour: [WayBack] Google Home and Bluetooth speakers make the perfect pair.
Now if your smartphone could do the same…
Via: [WayBack] Now any of your Google Home devices can connect to other Bluetooth speakers so you can control your entertainment experience simply using the sound of y… – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/30
Cool interactive colour mixing:
The www.spectrumcolors.de site has way more interesting pages around colour spaces, colour press techniques (like colour separation, rasterising, etc). Worth visiting!
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/30
TL;DR: Connecting to Macs over Thunderbolt is easy and has transfer speeds way faster than other network connections.
Summary of steps from [WayBack] Connecting two Macs using Thunderbolt | Macworld
- Connect the Thunderbolt cable between two Macs
- In the Network Preferences find the self-assigned IP address on either side
- In that side, ensure you have File Sharing enabled
- On the other side, open a Finder, press Command-K, then the IP-address you noted and logon
- Transfer files
This also increases LAN sync speeds of DropBox, Google Drive and others.
Note the connection by default using SMB
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/29
[WayBack]FizzBuzz: One Simple Interview Question… Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+:
THE BASICS S1 • E2
FizzBuzz: One Simple Interview Question
Tom Scott
Published on Jul 31, 2017
There are a lot of opinions on how to hire coders, and most of them are terrible. The opinions, that is, not the coders. But a basic filter test to make sure someone can do what they say they can: that seems reasonable, and FizzBuzz is one of the more common tests. Even now, interviewers use it. Let’s talk about why it’s tricky, and how to solve it.
Imran’s blog post: [WayBack] Using FizzBuzz to Find Developers who Grok Coding | Imran On Tech
Other approaches for pretty much every language: [WayBack] FizzBuzz – Rosetta Code
…
In retrospect, I wasn’t really surprised Kristian Köhntopp commented these two:
–jeroen
– https://plus.google.com/+KristianKöhntopp/posts/jYKBAD4MHMj
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/29
Interesting to try:
The new generation Pascal programming language that combines simplicity of classic Pascal, a great number of modern extensions and broad capabilities of Microsoft .NET Framework
I didn’t know about it either.
–jeroen
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