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Kevlin Henney on “configuration is code” in his essay “Out of Control. An essay on paradigms, refactoring…”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/31

For my link archive [Wayback/Archive] Out of Control. An essay on paradigms, refactoring… | by Kevlin Henney | Dec, 2020 | Medium.

Neither because Kevlin describes how to refactor a basic algorithm to convert Roman numerals into Hindu-Arabic numerals (in part by using the fact that an if statement can be considered a bounded case of a while loop), nor because he splits the resulting algorithm in coded data and coded statements, or because he mentions the [Wayback/Archive] Gilded Rose Kata but because well, you should just read it in full.

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Not just for Delphi, but any environment: Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/30

The video is from a while back, but very relevant and shows in Delphi what I have been advocating to software developers for a very long time:

  • when timestamping use UTC
  • when storing the timestamp store both the UTC timestamp and optionally the UTC timezone/offset and optionally daylight saving indicator of the region it was recorded from

This holds for any environment, so .NET / C#, Python, Delphi and many others as well:

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From @forrestbrazeal: Boilerplate code through ChatGPT or Google slows development teams down similar to technical debt

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/30

Via [Wayback/Archive] Angie Jones on Twitter: “Chart by Forrest Brazeal” I found the original at [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: “Just saying. “ Read the rest of this entry »

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Dennard scaling – Wikipedia: finally learned why since 20 years, maximum CPU frequency stagnated at about 4 Ghz

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/29

Dennard scaling – Wikipedia

Since around 2005–2007 Dennard scaling appears to have broken down. As of 2016, transistor counts in integrated circuits are still growing, but the resulting improvements in performance are more gradual than the speed-ups resulting from significant frequency increases.[1][10] The primary reason cited for the breakdown is that at small sizes, current leakage poses greater challenges and also causes the chip to heat up, which creates a threat of thermal runaway and therefore further increases energy costs.[1][10] Since 2005, the clock frequency has stagnated at 4 GHz, and the power consumption per CPU at 100 W TDP.

Via [Wayback/Archive] What Happened to the Capacitors in 2002? – YouTube

--jeroen

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PowerShell: playing around with Get-PnpDevice filtering with -Class and -Status

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/29

I while ago I was playing around in PowerShell with Get-PnpDevice (which got introduced in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019):

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@jilles_com … this is the difference between only connected disks versus including ones that had been connected in the past.Output difference between Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive -Status OK Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive …” – Mastodon

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Filtering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/28

[Wayback/Archive] Filtering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

Always convenient for events like these:

[Wayback/Archive] Die™ar: “Doe mee met de Mastodon Wie is…” – Mastodon

…

#wieisdemol #wieisdemol2025 #WIDM

…

--jeroen

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Discover the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription benefits | Google Cloud Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/28

Hopefully by now discounts like this are still available: [Wayback/Archive] Discover the Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription benefits | Google Cloud Blog

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ACR Phone Dialer, Call Recorder, SIP client & Spam Blocker by NLL APPS official website

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/25

[Wayback/Archive] ACR Phone Dialer, Call Recorder, SIP client & Spam Blocker by NLL APPS official website:

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Needed a binary paste bin since GitHub gists and GitLab snippets cannot even contain non-picture small binaries

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/25

Most of what I share is in text or picture form but every once in a blue moon I need to share small binaries publicly in a way mere mortals can use.

Since neither GitHub gists nor GitLab snippets support other binary files than images*, and most Pastebin sites are text-only I queried [Wayback/Archive] binary pastebin – Google Search which got me to [Wayback/Archive] Binary pastebin | boltblog.

That in turn pointed to [Wayback/Archive] Pastebin (paste.c-net.org) which has a full page of help, including this important bit:

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Huis te koop: Wagenstraat 8 2161 ZM Lisse [Funda]

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/24

Friends were interested in this house: Wayback Huis te koop: Wagenstraat 8 2161 ZM Lisse [Funda]

Archived the links just in case they ever need part of it again.

Pictures in the order of their appearance on Funda:

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