miketahani

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# scrape complex systems article pdfs
# requires bs4: `pip install beautifulsoup4`
import os
import re
import json
from urllib import urlopen as get, urlretrieve as save
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs

miketahani

/* post-fx pass by blending a solid white fullscreen quad, no texture required */

/*uniform*/ float fmin = 0.7;

void main(void)
{
    float fmod = mod(gl_FragCoord.y, 2.0);
    float fstep = fmin + (1.0 - fmin) * fmod;
    gl_FragColor = vec4(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, fstep);
}

miketahani

#!/usr/local/bin/python3
# one-off scraper for egghead.io videos in a series
# usage: chmod +x grabber.py && ./grabber.py <series stub>
# requires youtube-dl (`brew install youtube-dl`)
import os
import subprocess
import json
import argparse
from urllib.request import urlretrieve

miketahani

One-line Tree in Python

Using Python's built-in defaultdict we can easily define a tree data structure:

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

That's it!

miketahani

• XCode CLI
• iTerm2
• Python
• Node/nvm
• PostGIS
• GDAL
• TileMill
• QGIS + OpenLayers, mmqgis
• Sublime Text 3
• Firefox + LastPass, Disconnect, uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, Auto Tab Discard, React Devtools, Decentraleyes, Neat URL, Weasel WebSocket Client, Multi-Account Containers, Cookie AutoDelete

miketahani

import re
from datetime import datetime as dt

fake_dates = '10-Jan-2011, 01-Feb-02, ##-Bla-##, 01-Bla-2014'

# you can probably do some lookahead assertion at the end of the regex to only capture 2 digits or the last 2 digits
# instead of the mess below [1]
date_finder = re.compile('(\d{2}-(?:Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)-\d{2,4})')
dates = re.findall(date_finder, fake_dates)

miketahani

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

miketahani

import React, { Component } from 'react'

class Blink extends Component {
  constructor () {
    super()
    this.state = { visible: true }
    this.blink = this.blink.bind(this)
    this.interval = null
  }
  blink () {

miketahani

import re
from sys import argv
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
from pyquery import PyQuery as pq
from lxml import etree

filename = argv[-1]
anchors = re.compile('<a.+?>.+?<\/a>', re.DOTALL|re.I)

with open(filename, 'r') as infile:

miketahani

const radians = deg => deg * Math.PI / 180

// @param {Number} z  Offset from radius
export default function convertLatLngToSphere (lat, lng, baseRadius, z) {
  // radians
  const phi = radians(lat)
  const theta = radians(lng - 180)
  
  const radius = baseRadius + z