aparrish

Python ITP Group Regular Expressions Tutorial

I'll be working from these notes:

• Regular expressions (I used to use these notes in RWET)
• Strings and regular expressions (from a class I teach at Columbia, "Data and Databases"---scroll down to "regular expressions")

Source texts we'll use (download these to your working directory):

• Sea Rose by H.D.

kylemcdonald

Today F.A.T. Lab shut its doors with this lovely note from Magnus Eriksson and Evan Roth.

But the "we lost to them" narrative is only one perspective. As a "virtual research fellow" since 2011, I had the opportunity to both look up to F.A.T. as an outsider for its first half, and get the inside scoop for the second half. But my first project appears on page 20 of the blog's 200+ pages. With that in mind, here are some other stories about why F.A.T. "lost":

1. F.A.T. lost its rowdy juvenile edge when almost everyone got married, had kids, got (mostly) real jobs. The biggest producers from early F.A.T. effectively "retired" from producing F.A.T.-style work.
2. There was not enough new energy to replace these retired members. To fix this, sometimes a member would propose adding someone. Inevitably, someone else would suggest they "weren't F.A.T. enough", or just thinking about how many inactive members we had, and how much of a boys club it was, would get us down and discussion woul

michaellee

One of the features that made me fall in love with Jekyll was how super simple it was to start a new project. With one command jekyll new project_name you've got a brand new Jekyll project to start working on.

Posts

If your new Jekyll project is going to be used for blogging, you'll want to create posts for your new blog.

Jekyll by default provides a folder in which all your posts live. Within the Jekyll project, you'll find a folder called _posts. To create a new post you'll need to create a new markdown file with a file name in this format:

YYYY-MM-DD-title.markdown

Ammaraf

aparrish

Writing Poetry with Procedure: A Workshop

Led by Allison Parrish

Description

Practitioners in the field of procedural writing have been using rules, procedures and computer programs to create innovative literary work since the invention of the digital computer. Far from the bland imitation evoked by the phrase "computer-generated poetry," these techniques facilitate the creation of work with aesthetic and emotional affordances sometimes difficult to achieve through conventional compositional techniques: serendipitous beauty, precisely imitative satire, vertiginous wonder at the infinite. In this workshop, participants will learn about the history of computer-generated writing and sample a range of off-the-shelf, freely-available tools on the web to create their own—without writing any actual lines of code. No previous programming experience is required.

Outline

afeld

This list has been superseded by Public APIs. Check there for APIs with Auth: No, HTTPS and CORS Yes.

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List of data APIs that require no server-side auth or private credentials, and are thus good for small browser-only JS projects.

• 3taps (information)
• Adobe Creative SDK (image editing)
• App.net
• Bing Maps

benmccormick

" A minimal vimrc for new vim users to start with.
"
" Referenced here: http://vimuniversity.com/samples/your-first-vimrc-should-be-nearly-empty
"
" Original Author:	     Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
" Made more minimal by:  Ben Orenstein
" Modified by :          Ben McCormick
" Last change:	         2014 June 8
"
" To use it, copy it to

nickrw

#!/bin/bash

function usage() {
  echo "usage: $0 <volume (0-100)> <say args...>"
  echo
  echo "Unmutes and sets the system volume to volume%, passing the remaining"
  echo "arguments to the OSX \`say' command, restoring volume / mute setting"
  echo "to previous values after the speech has completed."
  exit 1
}

evanwill

PocketCHIP stuff

Utility

build in calculator: xcalc

use the built in browser: surf http://google.com (need help, man surf)

get a text browser: sudo apt-get install lynx

r00k

" A minimal vimrc for new vim users to start with.
"
" Referenced here: http://www.benorenstein.com/blog/your-first-vimrc-should-be-nearly-empty/

" Original Author:	 Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
" Made more minimal by:  Ben Orenstein
" Last change:	         2012 Jan 20
"
" To use it, copy it to
"     for Unix and OS/2:  ~/.vimrc