When starting to type in the address bar the shown list often holds too many unrelated items. With a few shortcuts it can be a much better experience.
They’re to be typed directly in the address bar (press F6) in front of the search terms:
These I find the most useful:
% search only open tabs
^ search only history
* search only bookmarks
These are probably useful for other people:
+ search only tagged bookmarks
# search only in titles and tags
$ search only in URL
? show only (search engine) suggestions
It’s also possible to remove unwanted items in the list by selecting them and then press SHIFT+DELETE although it sometimes doesn’t work for me on FF82.
I like last.fm from since back when Pandora became geofenced. One thing, which is kind of annoying, is that you have to jump through hoops to get your favorite tag started. I exclusively want that one tag as station and instead of just setting a bookmark, I wanted to have a go with GreaseMonkey to have a seamless ‘built-in’ experience. And not just changing the window.location but having a button left of the ‘<<‘ (previous) at the always visible player.
With very little exposure to javascript before, I was pleasantly surprised about the ease of finding information. Sadly from multiple decades, different styles, versions, …
Right-click and “Inspect Element” on the player yielded:
Aha, the player is an <ul> (unordered list) in HTML, and is of class ‘media-controls’. The button to play the tag is more interesting:
Three classes, custom attributes.
It took about 30 min. to patchwork something together by searching the web for things like “greasemonkey button insertion” “javascript select by class” and the like. Debugging seems a lot easier today with the browser console, if it were available at the start of this millenium maybe I could’ve had a more thorough dip into JS.
Now, on all pages at last.fm I have an extra button for my alternative-rock-tag. Nice.
// ==UserScript==
// @namespace aoe
// @name lastfm play Alternative tag
// @version 1.0
// @description Add button to play Alternative-tag
// @include https://www.last.fm/*
// @include http://www.last.fm/*
// @run-at document-start
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
//the above comments are interpreted by Greasemonkey, the
//@include https://www.last.fm/* enables the script on all pages
(function(){
'use strict'
window.addEventListener('load', () => {
addButton();
})
function addButton() {
//create new button as list element
let liel = document.createElement('li');
let btn = document.createElement('button');
//add the details learned from inspecting, classes and attributes
//exchange button class with 'player-bar-btn' otherwise it looks
//weird, try yourself to see
btn.classList.add('player-bar-btn');
btn.classList.add('stationlink');
btn.classList.add('js-playlink-station');
//insert link of real button
btn.setAttribute("data-station-url", "/player/station/tag/alternative+rock");
btn.setAttribute("data-analytics-action", "StartStation");
btn.setAttribute("data-analytics-label", "tag");
//grab the player element and put the created button first
let controls = document.getElementsByClassName("media-controls")
liel.appendChild(btn);
controls[0].insertBefore(liel, controls[0].childNodes[0]);
}
}())
You’re in a field where it’s mandatory to keep up-to-date? Just subscribe to podcasts of some experts in the field. Most of those will churn out a 1 hour long audio once a week.
For those of us who have no long commutes it might be impossible to listen to all of them. It would really help if they had (even bad automatic) transcripts of the talks. Skimming over it is so much better.
Let’s be honest:
most topics are covered by multiple sources
most talks sacrifice considerable time for chitchat
most podcasters seemingly expect you to have a lot of time and a recurring interest in their favorite drink/keyboard(-mapping)/anecdotes of childhood
To the occasional listener that all might be not only ok, but even pleasant. Not for me.
Now to the “can’t believe that in this time and age …”: There are free services for al lot of (not) useful things. But apparently the big exception is transcriptions. There are quite a few services for the creators, which can be expensive, billed by words or time. The free options tend to enforce specific platforms. But literally no usable ones for listeners.
Of course you can always play back the podcast in realtime and “record” it with google docs, but how cumbersome is that?
Fun fact: Google transcribes all entries in https://podcasts.google.com/, so that they’re discoverable by content in the search. But not to be viewed. Argh!
@ECHO OFF
IF [%1] == [/?] GOTO USAGE
IF [%1] == [/h] GOTO USAGE
IF %1 NEQ +%1 GOTO USAGE
GOTO PROCESSING
:USAGE
ECHO Sudoku (killer difficulty) downloader, loads from https://sudoku-drucken.de
ECHO and assembles to single file, ready to be printed.
ECHO Dependencies are wget and pdftk, those need to be available on the PATH.
ECHO.
ECHO usage: sudoku [N]
ECHO N - Number of Sudoku pages, default 20 if omitted
GOTO END
:PROCESSING
SETLOCAL
SET FOLDER=%TEMP%\SUDOKU
MD %FOLDER%
CD /D %FOLDER%
SET PAGES=20
IF NOT %1==[] SET PAGES=%1
FOR /L %%N IN (1, 1, %PAGES%) DO (
wget -q -O %%N.pdf "https://sudoku-drucken.de/component/sudoku/?task=print_sudoku&level=killer"
ECHO Downloaded page %%N
)
ECHO Combining %PAGES% to a single PDF
pdftk *.pdf cat output sudoku.pdf
CALL sudoku.pdf
CD \
RMDIR /S /Q %FOLDER%
ENDLOCAL
:END
The script checks whether the next day is Saturday, if yes it configures the rtcwake command to wake on Monday instead (skipping Sunday). On my systems computer time equals local time. If you have a different setup (rtc set to UTC) there are paramteters for both date and rtcwake to use either the one or the other so that your dates align.
rtcwake is used with powerstate off which equals ACPI S5, apparently some very old systems don’t support that. If you happen to be in that situation use something else like standby (S1), mem (S3) or disk (S4) and comment below I’d be interested to know.
If using Java11+ thejavax.annotation package is no longer part of the distribution, as per JSR-175 missing annotations do not trigger “missing class” or similar exceptions. So look out when updating from sub-Java11 to there. Solution? Add
Freshly unpacked Netbeans 10 won’t run with either JDK 8 or 11 in PATH and JAVA_HOME.
Solution, either:
run netbeans with jdkhome parameter, pointing to your jdk-base folder, e.g.
netbeans64 --jdkhome c:\jdks\jdk11
for a more permanent solution go to subfolder “etc” and open netbeans.conf search the line with netbeans_jdkhome and set the folder there (also uncomment/ remove hashsign) like so