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dnagir / rspec-syntax-cheat-sheet.rb
Created November 5, 2010 09:29
RSpec 2 syntax cheat sheet by example
# RSpec 2.0 syntax Cheet Sheet by http://ApproachE.com
# defining spec within a module will automatically pick Player::MovieList as a 'subject' (see below)
module Player
describe MovieList, "with optional description" do
it "is pending example, so that you can write ones quickly"
it "is already working example that we want to suspend from failing temporarily" do
pending("working on another feature that temporarily breaks this one")
@simonmichael
simonmichael / gist:1185421
Created September 1, 2011 03:59
ghc-pkg-clean, ghc-pkg-reset
# unregister broken GHC packages. Run this a few times to resolve dependency rot in installed packages.
# ghc-pkg-clean -f cabal/dev/packages*.conf also works.
function ghc-pkg-clean() {
for p in `ghc-pkg check $* 2>&1 | grep problems | awk '{print $6}' | sed -e 's/:$//'`
do
echo unregistering $p; ghc-pkg $* unregister $p
done
}
# remove all installed GHC/cabal packages, leaving ~/.cabal binaries and docs in place.
@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active June 16, 2024 13:44
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

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"

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@wkjagt
wkjagt / audio-book-reader.md
Last active April 12, 2024 14:18
How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

#How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

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Last year, when visiting my family back home in Holland, I also stopped by my grand-parents. My grand-father, now 93 years old, had always been a very active man. However, during the presceding couple of months, he'd gone almost completely blind and now spent his days sitting in a chair. Trying to think of something for him to do, I suggested he try out audio books. After finally convincing him -- he said audio books were for sad old people -- that listening to a well performed recording is actually a wonderful experience, I realized the problem of this idea.

####The problem with audio devices and the newly blind. After my first impulse to jump up and go buy him an