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dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active May 17, 2024 02:53
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@mammadori
mammadori / source.py
Created October 15, 2012 09:17
Python: "source" a shell script and read variables
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from os import environ
def source(script, update=True, clean=True):
"""
Source variables from a shell script
import them in the environment (if update==True)
and report only the script variables (if clean==True)
"""
@billroy
billroy / jsonio.py
Created September 21, 2012 13:38
Read/write JSON object from file in python
import simplejson
import json
def put(data, filename):
try:
jsondata = simplejson.dumps(data, indent=4, skipkeys=True, sort_keys=True)
fd = open(filename, 'w')
fd.write(jsondata)
fd.close()
except:
@rgreenjr
rgreenjr / postgres_queries_and_commands.sql
Last active May 14, 2024 11:33
Useful PostgreSQL Queries and Commands
-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
ORDER BY query_start desc;
-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
@rsvp
rsvp / noise.sh
Last active April 18, 2024 14:18
noise : relaxing ambient Brown noise generator (cf. white noise) | Linux bash script using sox | CogSci notes
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# bash 4.1.5(1) Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Date : 2019-01-02
#
# _______________| noise : ambient Brown noise generator (cf. white noise).
#
# Usage: noise [minutes=59] [band-pass freq center=1786] [wave]
# ^minutes can be any positive integer.
# Command "noise 1" will display peak-level meter.
#
# Dependencies: play (from sox package)