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Orangetronic / spongecase.js
Last active June 22, 2022 22:09
a crYoTPGRApHicaLly rEVeRsIBle SPoNGebOb-casE alGORiThm
/*
* Cryptographically reversible spongebob-case text transformation
*
* Sometimes you want to encode some text in a way that is not completely
* secret, but is quite hard to read. But what if you need to decode it again?
*
* Now you can!
*
* to De-sponge some text, simply pass the sponged text back through the sponge
* function
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Orangetronic / autocorrects.md
Last active November 21, 2023 23:57
A list of autocorrections I have witnessed my telephone make on my behalf.

autocorrects

being a list of instances where autocorrect has mangled my meaning

  • if to orb
  • of to if
  • ill to i’ll
  • reindexes to Reindeer’s
  • already visited to pressured visiting
  • colour to collie
  • this to these
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Orangetronic / vec2 stuff
Created November 21, 2020 23:35
Dump this in an iOS playground, and click around to simulate what would be index finger point tracking
//: A UIKit based Playground for presenting user interface
import UIKit
import PlaygroundSupport
import CoreGraphics
import simd
/// # Some Convencience Extensions
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Orangetronic / description.md
Last active May 30, 2019 15:49
use-pausable-timeout

This is a React hook that creates a timeout, and provides functions for pausing, resuming, and resetting that timeout.

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Orangetronic / for_each_db.js
Created May 30, 2019 13:10
run a command across all the databases in mongo from the Studio 3T mongo shell
db = db.getSiblingDB("admin");
dbs = db.runCommand({ "listDatabases": 1 }).databases;
// Iterate through each database and get its collections.
dbs.forEach(function(database) {
db = db.getSiblingDB(database.name);
});
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Orangetronic / iterable-tree.md
Last active May 21, 2019 10:05
Iterable tree class by @Orangetronic

Instantiate this class around a tree-like object, e.g.

const filetree = new IterableTree({
  name : "Desktop",
  children : [
   { name : "funny.gif" },
   { name : "resume.pdf" },
   { name : "memes",
     children : [
 { name : "distracted-boyfriend.png" },
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Orangetronic / outgenius.css
Last active March 27, 2016 03:36
/*
ADD THESE LINES TO YOUR SITE'S STYLESHEETS TO HIDE THE GENIUS WEB ANNOTATOR STUFF.
*/
genius-back-page, genius-back-page-mobile-clickjacker, genius-pre-annotation-prompt {
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
opacity: 0;
position: absolute;
left: -10000px;
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Orangetronic / gist:9997325
Last active August 29, 2015 13:58

RESUMÉ: David Miller

Profile

Designer/developer fascinated by the promise of the web. Front end proficiency strong. Some excursions through full-stack development/deployment. Four years running successful freelance business. Youth educator in media-literacy focussed summer program. Fascinated by the way we use technology to engage with the world around us. Philosophy B.A. with breadth and depth of hands-on technical experience in design, complex problem-solving and analysis, and online technologies. Managerial and team experience as editor of student publications. Occasional musician.

Professional Experience

Freelance designer/developer, orangetronic.com — 2006 - present

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Orangetronic / mod_rewrite gold
Last active December 22, 2015 23:49
Helpful mod_rewrite snippets: 1. Apache mod_rewrite rule to fake virtualhost in shared hosting environments where apache config files are not accessible.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomainname\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.mydomainname\.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subfoldername/
RewriteRule (.*) /subfoldername/$1
#from http://stackoverflow.com/a/11090555/2776197
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Orangetronic / .shellthings
Last active December 17, 2015 22:29
shell functions and bash bits!
# Download all the images from a webpage
# Usage: imagegrab URL
function imagegrab () {
wget -nd -r -l 2 -A jpg,jpeg,png,gif $1
}
# Grab all the colours from a stylesheet and dump them in a snippets file
# Totally useless with minified stylesheets.
# Usage: stylegrab styleSheetURL styleExpression
function stylesgrab () {