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How to make a small tweak to free software

The target audience for this is people who are beginners at software engineering and using linux. A lot of the information here may be obvious or already known to you. The language involved is C but you do not need to know any C to read this tutorial. I used mg to write this blog post. I used vs code to edit the source code.

This post is also available on gopher://tilde.team:70/0/~river/tweak-free-software

If you use a piece of free software and it's 99% perfect but there's just this one thing it does that annoys the hell out of you.. you can in theory just fix it! Here's a look at what doing that is like. Hopefully it inspires you, or you pick up a could tricks on the way!

Step 0: Have a problem

AnatomicJC

Backup android app, data included, no root needed, with adb

Note: This gist may be outdated, thanks to all contributors in comments.

adb is the Android CLI tool with which you can interact with your android device, from your PC

You must enable developer mode (tap 7 times on the build version in parameters) and install adb on your PC.

Don't hesitate to read comments, there is useful tips, thanks guys for this !

johnsinco

fuck all this https://media.giphy.com/media/O1IDb3Wo98iGY/giphy.gif

angry panda https://media.giphy.com/media/1hiVNxD34TpC0/giphy.gif

Failure http://i.imgur.com/cWX4Fjf.gifv

TayTay http://i.giphy.com/Lk9SktDAGzYUU.gif

obama holdup https://media.giphy.com/media/Gubfnt4gJtnOw/giphy.gif

RangerDane

# nonsense.rb
# a markov chain of varying depth
# USAGE: make a new nonsense tree, add lines, then chain!
# > non = Nonsense.new 2
# > non.add_line "What is happening"
# > non.add_line "The world is on fire"
# > non.chain
# => "What won hat woren ire worenis hape"

class Nonsense

nbouvrette

/**
 * Stand alone polyfill allow only numbers on input of type number.
 *
 * While input filtering is already supported by default by some browsers, maximum length has not been implemented by
 * any. This script will solve both issue and make sure that only digits can be entered in input elements of type
 * number. If the optional attribute `max` is set, it will calculate it's length and mimic the `maxlength` behavior on
 * input of type text.
 *
 * Supports:
 *

benlinton

Multiple MySQL Versions for Development

Options included below:

• Using Docker docker-compose
• Using Homebrew brew

Using Docker (recommended)

This gist was originally created for Homebrew before the rise of Docker, yet it may be best to avoid installing mysql via brew any longer. Instead consider adding a barebones docker-compose.yml for each project and run docker-compose up to start each project's mysql service.

bitops

module Foo
  def self.included(base)
    base.extend(ClassMethods)
  end
  
  module ClassMethods
    def bar
      puts 'class method'
    end
  end

tristanbes

# If you open your Ressource monitoring under OSX, you'll see that the
# Process "Spotify Helper" is eating between 20% and 30% of CPU constantly
# It means that when you're on battery, it'll drain it faster.

# To prevent the Spotify Helper (which are basically ads for spotify) from spawning process, 
# you should disable access to the app doing this (close Spotify first) :

sudo chmod 000 "/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spotify Helper EH.app"
sudo chmod -N "/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Frameworks/Spotify Helper EH.app"

rolftimmermans

#target photoshop

/* Open the given file, and compress with TinyPNG. */
function compressFile(file) {
  var document = open(file);

  if (document.mode == DocumentMode.INDEXEDCOLOR) {
    document.changeMode(ChangeMode.RGB);
  }

Stanback

#
# CORS header support
#
# One way to use this is by placing it into a file called "cors_support"
# under your Nginx configuration directory and placing the following
# statement inside your **location** block(s):
#
#   include cors_support;
#
# As of Nginx 1.7.5, add_header supports an "always" parameter which