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This describes my setup for using DigitalOcean Volumes (disk images attached to my VPS) for off-site backups and keeping them encrypted-at-rest when I'm not actively writing or reading to the disk image.

Basically it consists of:

• A DigitalOcean virtual private server.
• An extra Volume attached to the VPS (100GB or so), this presents itself as a block storage device in Linux.
• LUKS encrypted partition on the Volume.

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Motivational Speech Alarm Clock

This is the code I used to make an alarm clock out of a Raspberry Pi (model 1 B+, 512MB RAM) that plays motivational speeches at 6:30 in the morning to get my ass out of bed.

At first I was using a CLI YouTube client, but it would hang after a while due to not running on an interactive console (being launched by crond), and the audio support on Pi's have always been somewhat flaky.

I ended up using youtube-dl to pre-download a playlist and using omxplayer for its hardware-accelerated decoding support. Works pretty well, except omxplayer has no support for things like "playlists" or "shuffling" so I needed

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/home/*/logs/*.log {
	daily
	missingok
	rotate 14
	size 50M
	compress
	delaycompress
	notifempty
	create 0640 www-data adm
	sharedscripts

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# Function that prints the branch name.
git_branch() {
	branch=`git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' | perl -pe 's/^\*\s+//g'`
	if [ "$branch" != '' ]; then
		echo -n " ($branch)"
	fi
}

# Integrate it into your $PS1 prompt.
# Would look like: [user@localhost myapp (master)]$

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am kirsle on github.
• I am kirsle (https://keybase.io/kirsle) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is 03AC B9F9 5CE5 A920 871E 94C5 9255 42ED E2E7 1CDA

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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# minimal example of linking RiveScript to Twilio (untested)
from flask import Flask, request, redirect
from rivescript import RiveScript
import twilio.twiml
 
app = Flask(__name__)

bot = RiveScript()
bot.load_directory("brain")
bot.sort_replies()

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##
# Problem: sending a binary download in ExpressJS.
#
# I was trying to proxy download a binary file from S3 and serve it to the user with a different name.
# Using the `request` module didn't work; text files came back fine but binary files would be corrupted
# in strange ways (see attached diff).
#
# I ended up using the built-in `https` module and doing it the hard way.
#
# My theory: the request module expects to only work with text and was performing some UTF-8 coercion

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#!/usr/bin/env python

class WorkerBase(object):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        print "WorkerBase init"
        pass

class DBWorker(WorkerBase):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        print "DBWorker init"

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diff --git a/node/tcp-server.js b/node/tcp-server.js
index 22b383f..08e9c02 100644
--- a/node/tcp-server.js
+++ b/node/tcp-server.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 //
 // Run this and then telnet to localhost:2001 and chat with the bot!
 
+var fs         = require("fs");
 var net        = require("net");

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Save this code as ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and restart your XFCE panel with xfce4-panel -r

This file will set your panel text color to white (overriding the color setting from your current GTK theme). Change the #FFFFFF to another color if you want another color.

The engine "murrine" part will remove the text style for Murrine based themes (for example, a drop-shadow effect used in the Ubuntu Ambiance theme and Greybird).

style "panel"
{
 fg[NORMAL] = "#FFFFFF"