Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/29
Het overkomt te vaak dat barcodes beschadigd of overplakt zijn (hallo Too Good to Go, hallo “samen minder verspillen” van Jumbo en vergelijkbare acties)
Daarom wat barcodes van producten die je er overheen kunt plakken:
Gerelateerd: Generating EAN-13 barcode EPS files for your article numbers – die had ik al eerder bijgewerkt met gearchiveerde links.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/29
Now that Python 2 has been dead for long enough (has it been unsupported for 5 years? yes it has: [Wayback/Archive] Status of Python Versions), it was finally time to change my alias for running a local web-server to serve files from a directory (:
So, from [Wayback/Archive] What is the Python 3 equivalent of “python -m SimpleHTTPServer” – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] ryanbraganza, [Wayback/Archive] k.avinash and [Wayback/Archive] Petr Viktorin):
python -m http.server 8000, it will start the server on port 8000
Docs with the migration hints: [Wayback/Archive] 20.19. SimpleHTTPServer — Simple HTTP request handler — Python 2.7.18 documentation
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/27
This case, it was C# accessing a SQL back-end, but the responses to the Tweet how so many more examples not even related to software development.
Remember that plane crashing because they overloaded while they thought the fuel load numbers were in Imperial pounds where in fact they were in metric kilograms?
That’s why naming things that contain numbers should contain the unit in their name!
Related blog post: Watch “Felienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to read” on YouTube
Tweet: [Wayback/Archive] Nick Craver on Twitter: “Troubleshooting a hanging test suite and godDAMMIT. “In seconds”. Integer timeouts should be a felony offense punishable by an indeterminate amount of seconds/milliseconds/hours/fortnights/whatever the judge chooses.”
var csb = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(TestConfig.Current. SQLServerConnectionString) { ConnectTimeout = 2000 }; int SqlConnectionStringBuilder.ConnectTimeout { get; set; } Gets or sets the length of time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to the server before terminating the attempt and generating an error. Returns: The value of the SqlConnectionStringBuilder, ConnectTimeout property, or 15 seconds if no value has been supplied.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/26
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The below example is in Excel, but it holds for many other drawing tools in other office suites as well (like the ones in OpenOffice and successors like LibreOffice, Apple Pages in iWork, and others from the list of office suites):
- Insert a shape
- Move the corners so it covers the area you want a screenshot in
- Modify the shape background to contain the screenshot as background
(you can exchange steps 2 and 3 if you wish, and even go for more complex shapes – including ones where you can add corner points – to better fit the area where you want the distorted screenshot to appear).
Example in (typo was indeed in the tweet) [Wayback/Archive] Excel Dictionary on X: “Are you ready for this Excel tip? Get ready to learn how to easily scew images. 🤯”: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/23
If I ever need old Geocities material then I should check back at oocities and other archival efforts as they have archived a truckload of it and (unlike the the Archive.org geocities arvhive) are indexed by public search engines.
Their archive home page is [Wayback/Archive] Geocities Archive Geocities Mirror / The 90s Archive (1990s 2000s nineties) / The Early web of which I quote a few bits:
- Special Thanks goes to all the editors and webmasters who made this project alive by updating their old links every day
from * geocities.com/*
to *.oocities.com/*
- oocities.com/org, geocities.ws, reocities.com, internetarchaeology.org, webcitation.org, deletedcity.net
Adding some domains from Yahoo! GeoCities: Archiving efforts – Wikipedia, these are publicly indexed archival sites that have parts of old Geocities content (part of which might be gone by the time you read this: web sites and their content become increasingly ephemeral):
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 