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jay3sh / guard-my-mabook-when-i-am-away.sh
Created March 30, 2016 16:46
Guard My Macbook When I'm Away
#!/bin/bash
#
# When you are working on your macbook sitting in cafe and you have to go pee,
# you need some way to guard you machine.
#
# Start this script, remove any earphones, and go do the job.
# The assumption is the thief will close the lid of the laptop before taking it away.
# This script detects the closing of the lid and plays some loud audio that will
# likely distract the thief and/or grab attention of nearby people, making the
@HaleTom
HaleTom / print256colours.sh
Last active May 2, 2024 14:43
Print a 256-colour test pattern in the terminal
#!/bin/bash
# Tom Hale, 2016. MIT Licence.
# Print out 256 colours, with each number printed in its corresponding colour
# See http://askubuntu.com/questions/821157/print-a-256-color-test-pattern-in-the-terminal/821163#821163
set -eu # Fail on errors or undeclared variables
printable_colours=256
@fasiha
fasiha / no-hackerrank.md
Last active August 7, 2023 11:47
A prospective employer invited me to do a HackerRank test. Here's my proposed alternative.

Well, that was unexpected. In the following, I’m trying to follow Jon Evans’ advice from “The Terrible Technical Interview”.


To: recruitment@EmployerABC.com
From: Ahmed Fasih
Subject: Re: Programming Test Invitation

Hi there! Thanks for offering to let me take a HackerRank test for ABC, I appreciate the vote of confidence.

@dylanmckay
dylanmckay / facebook-contact-info-summary.rb
Last active March 12, 2024 22:46
A Ruby script for collecting phone record statistics from a Facebook user data dump
#! /usr/bin/env ruby
# NOTE: Requires Ruby 2.1 or greater.
# This script can be used to parse and dump the information from
# the 'html/contact_info.htm' file in a Facebook user data ZIP download.
#
# It prints all cell phone call + SMS message + MMS records, plus a summary of each.
#
# It also dumps all of the records into CSV files inside a 'CSV' folder, that is created
@bbqtd
bbqtd / macos-tmux-256color.md
Last active May 20, 2024 04:07
Installing tmux-256color for macOS

Installing tmux-256color for macOS

  • macOS 10.15.5
  • tmux 3.1b

macOS has ncurses version 5.7 which does not ship the terminfo description for tmux. There're two ways that can help you to solve this problem.

The Fast Blazing Solution

Instead of tmux-256color, use screen-256color which comes with system. Place this command into ~/.tmux.conf or ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf(for version 3.1 and later):

@IanColdwater
IanColdwater / twittermute.txt
Last active May 23, 2024 18:37
Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit.
Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords
ActivityTweet
generic_activity_highlights
generic_activity_momentsbreaking
RankedOrganicTweet
suggest_activity
suggest_activity_feed
suggest_activity_highlights
suggest_activity_tweet
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/t/tmux-256color
tmux-256color|tmux with 256 colors,
OTbs, OTpt, am, hs, km, mir, msgr, xenl, AX, G0,
colors#256, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#32767, U8#1,
acsc=++\,\,--..00``aaffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, civis=\E[?25l,
clear=\E[H\E[J, cnorm=\E[34h\E[?25h, cr=^M,
csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H,
cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=^J, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\EM,