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March 26, 2020

archive.pl 2.0 released

Today I finally released the latest build of my archive.pl script. Due to its massive changes I decided to increase the main version, although there is no incompatibility to prior version calls. The main purpose of archive.pl is to store sets of URLs in the Internet Archive and store an index of them as Atom feed, HTML page or WordPress...

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February 18, 2020

biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅰ: JabRef

This is the first entry in a series of blog posts that aim to investigate how my biblatex-archaeology package interferes with software commonly used by its target audience. Since v2.2 was declared feature complete the objective of v2.3’s development is to enhance usability. JabRef is a very common reference manager in the LaTeΧ world. As of today the stable release...

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January 14, 2020

Cookiewarnung mit URL-Parameter: So nicht!

Cookiewarnungen sind ohne Zweifel eine Pest. Ich glaube auch nicht, daß sie nützen. Wegen ihrer großen Zahl werden sie vermutlich routinemäßig weggeklickt, ohne daß dabei irgendeine Informationsaufnahme beim Besucher stattfindet. Das dürfte denselben Effekt haben wie Alarmanlagen, die ständig Fehlalarme erzeugen. Ich vermeide daher das Setzen von hinweispflichtigen Cookies auf meinen Webseiten und benutze Browserplugins, die sie unterdrücken. Ich bevorzuge...

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January 8, 2020

archive.pl 1.8 released

Today a new version of my Perl script archive.pl has been released (version 1.8). There are three new features: The resulting index page can now automatically get posted to a WordPress blog. The Internet Archive has introduced a request limit (15 requests per minute). archive.pl therefore delays archiving to a reasonable extend (10 seconds as default). On the other hand,...

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December 31, 2019

biblatex-archaeology v2.2 released

Good news! Yesterday version 2.2 of my LaTeΧ package biblatex-archaeology was released, with which it comes close to feature completeness. There are no new features on my to-do list, only some minor improvements of existing features and better documentation. Unfortunately there was a huge delay in upgrading, and since the release of biblatex 3.14 biblatex-archaeology stopped working at all. I...

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April 25, 2017

The chess game “Hubert Dreyfus vs. Mac Hack Ⅵ” (1967) annotated

Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, a well-known AI critic, played a chess game against a program by Richard Greenblatt.

Chess/Games History/Software Comment: 1

April 16, 2017

Eitschess Live Broadcasting Chess Viewer

Demo page in the scope of my PGN replay test project.

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The biblatex-archaeology styles for German cultural anthropology

biblatex-archaeology is a LaTeΧ package that provides styles according to the referencing rules of the Römisch-Germanische Komission, since these serve in German prehistory & medieval archaeology as a template for verbose, numeric and author date styles.

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January 19, 2017

ChessBase Reader

A demo page of the ChessBase PGN replay script in the scope of my web PGN viewer test project.

Chess/Web Development Comment: 1

September 19, 2016

HTML Chess Demo Page

A demo page for HTML Chess in the scope of my chess replay utilities test project.