Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@afontenot
afontenot / mastodon-replace-emoji.css
Created December 8, 2022 08:52
A CSS snippet to replace the hardcoded Twitter emoji on Mastodon with the local font
/* NOTES:
*
* Obviously, for this to work, you will need to have an emoji font installed
* locally. You will need to block e.g. static-cdn.mastodon.social/emoji in
* your ad blocker of choice. I suggest uBlock for this.
*
* This uBlock filter will work around uBlock's "hide placeholders" option:
* ||static-cdn.mastodon.social/emoji/*$empty
*
* Furthermore to load the background image, you'll need to upload it to your
@afontenot
afontenot / election_night_live_model.R
Created October 31, 2020 22:25 — forked from elliottmorris/election_night_live_model.R
A live election-night prediction model using The Economist's pre-election forecast
#' Description
#' This file runs a live election-night forecast based on The Economist's pre-election forecasting model
#' available at projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president.
#' It is resampling model based on https://pkremp.github.io/update_prob.html.
#' This script does not input any real election results! You will have to enter your picks/constraints manually (scroll to the bottom of the script).
#'
#' Licence
#' This software is published by *[The Economist](https://www.economist.com)* under the [MIT licence](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). The data generated by *The Economist* are available under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
#' The licences include only the data and the software authored by *The Economist*, and do not cover any *Economist* content or third-party data or content made available using the software. More information about licensing, syndication and the copyright of *Economist* content can be fou
/* ==UserStyle==
@name Github redesign fixes
@namespace github.com/openstyles/stylus
@version 1.5.5
@description Fixes various issues with Github's redesign
@author afontenot/LunarTwilight
@preprocessor less
@var color background "Readme header background color" #f1f8ff
@var color border "Readme header border color" #e6e4e4
@var text padding "Amount of padding used on the header" 18vw
@afontenot
afontenot / sd.py
Created March 31, 2020 01:30
snippet reproducing a bug in shapely's polylabel function
import cartopy.crs as ccrs
import cartopy.io.shapereader as shpreader
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from shapely.ops import polylabel
shapename="admin_1_states_provinces_lakes_shp"
states_shp = shpreader.natural_earth(
resolution='50m',
category='cultural',
name=shapename