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Lewiscowles1986 / src\ReadingTime.php
Last active December 29, 2015 06:29
PHP Estimated Read Time
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<?php
namespace lewiscowles\utils\cms;
class ReadingTime {
protected static function _read_time( $text, $wordsPerPage = 200.00, $decimalPlaces = 2 )
{
$words = str_word_count( strip_tags( $text ) );
$min = floatval( $words ) / $wordsPerPage;
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echo time()."\r\n";
var_dump( microtime_str() );
var_dump( microtime_str() );
var_dump( microtime_str() );
var_dump( microtime_str() );
var_dump( microtime_str() );
var_dump( microtime_str() );
var_dump( microtime_str() );
var_dump( microtime_str() );
var_dump( microtime_str() );
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Lewiscowles1986 / ra-7601U-USB-build-inst.sh
Last active September 3, 2019 23:31
install ralink 7601U USB N+150 wireless driver (Ubuntu 14.04 or Kernel 3.13+)
View ra-7601U-USB-build-inst.sh
#!/bin/sh
#setup dependencies
sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-generic build-essential
#get patched drivers
wget http://www.lewiscowles.co.uk/dls/MT7601U-14.04-patched.tar -O - | tar -x
cd MT7601U-14.04-patched
# build and install
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Lewiscowles1986 / getWP.sh
Created October 3, 2014 18:35
install / update wordpress
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#!/bin/sh
sudo apt-get update && apt-get install unzip
wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
unzip -o -u latest.zip
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Lewiscowles1986 / test.dt.human.php
Created December 9, 2014 03:43
Testing Human date / time
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<?php
//
// setup
//
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
//
// code to test
//
$post_time = get_the_time( 'U' );
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Problem #1

God algorithms, God solutions etc, God methods etc often add unnesecarry complexity with very little benefit. There is no God, get over that...

Shipow: Even if I don't support religions, I'm pretty ok with the idea of an omnipotent mind as it stay in the context of narration. And I guess that even someone very trustfull will never imagine God as web/app designer ;)

Problem #2

Lack of evidence for decisions... I could understand iteratively improving a design because nobody gets "sign up", "sign in"... if it EVER happened! Jeff even admits there is little evidence against "sign up" / "sign in", and the link seems to be to some stackoverflow o similar upvoting thread (thus promoting over-simplification, lack of engagement and pack mentality common on such services)... The truth is "sign up", "sign in" is not confusing, unless you do not speak english, then you have bigger problems than "sign up", "sign in"... You know like using any of the interface...

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Lewiscowles1986 / Random.php
Last active August 29, 2015 14:13
fantastic secure random bytes from native PHP
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<?php
namespace lewiscowles\security {
Class Random {
const SECRANDSRC = '/dev/urandom';
const DEFAULT_RANDOM_BYTES = 16;
public static function getTrueRandomBytes( $cnt=16 ) {
$out = '';
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Lewiscowles1986 / TextColorHelper.php
Created January 18, 2015 07:09
PHP Bash colour re-factor...
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<?php
namespace {
use \lewiscowles\nix\terminal\bash\TextColorHelper;
$bashTxt = new TextColorHelper();
$bashTxt->setString( 'Normal Text' )
->output()
->setString( 'Less Normal Text', 'light_purple' )
->output()
->setString( 'Success', 'light_green' )
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Lewiscowles1986 / lc-svg-upload.php
Last active August 4, 2016 13:45
SVG Media Plugin for WordPress (Works since 4.1.2!)
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<?php
// Please see https://github.com/Lewiscowles1986/WordPressSVGPlugin from now on
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Lewiscowles1986 / tag_cloud.html
Created June 23, 2015 02:06
Tag Cloud Include for Jekyll
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{% assign all_tags = site.tags|size %}
<div class="tagcloud">{% for tag in site.tags %}
{% assign tag_name = tag|first %}
{% assign tag_count = tag|last|size %}
{% assign tag_avg = tag_count | div: all_tags %}
<span class="tag" style="font-size: {{ tag_avg | times: 100 }}%;">{{ tag_name }}</span>{% if false %} ({{ tag_count }}){% endif %}
{% endfor %}</div>