mndrix

// A proxy for sending/receiving SMS via IRC
//
// This code is part of our family IRC server whose code is available at
// https://gist.github.com/mndrix/7947009178e4a18c247b4bd25821661f
//
// This file won't compile by itself because it's only one file from
// my larger family server (movie hosting, Asterisk dialplan, Git
// hosting, personal assistant, etc).
//
// Copyright 2018 Michael Hendricks

haasn

Firefox bullshit removal

Updated: Just use qutebrowser (and disable javascript). The web is done for.

Vestride

Encoding Video

Installing

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus

lelandbatey

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

tavlima

<?php

// From http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_names_and_code_elements_txt.htm
// Last update: 2013-02-14
// Every word in country names begin with uppercase letters, except for prepositions and alike

$countries = array(
'AF' => "Afghanistan",
'AX' => "Åland Islands",
'AL' => "Albania",

dergachev

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.

Instructions

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

madc

Copyright (c) 2015 Matthias Esterl


Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

1wErt3r

;SMBDIS.ASM - A COMPREHENSIVE SUPER MARIO BROS. DISASSEMBLY
;by doppelganger (doppelheathen@gmail.com)

;This file is provided for your own use as-is.  It will require the character rom data
;and an iNES file header to get it to work.

;There are so many people I have to thank for this, that taking all the credit for
;myself would be an unforgivable act of arrogance. Without their help this would
;probably not be possible.  So I thank all the peeps in the nesdev scene whose insight into
;the 6502 and the NES helped me learn how it works (you guys know who you are, there's no 

mbbx6spp

Best UNIX Shell tools

These are a list of usages of shell commands I can't live without on UNIX-based systems.

Install

Mac OS X

Using Homebrew (yes, I am opinionated) you can install the following tools with the following packages:

jeffkreeftmeijer