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@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active May 10, 2024 05:14
Big list of http static server one-liners

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
@peteryates
peteryates / guide.md
Last active May 6, 2024 10:49
How to stop adverts appearing on your Samsung TV

I'm getting adverts in my TV's UI, help!

Samsung's otherwise excellent 2016 range of UHD TVs received an update that added advertisements to the UI. This has been complained about at great length on Samsung's forums and repeatedly, Samsung have refused to add an option to remove them.

The ads interrupt the clean UI of the TV and are invasive. Here's an example of how they look:

one two

This guide was originally posted on Samsung's TV forums but unfortunately, that site is a super-slow and barely accessible unusable mess.

@johntyree
johntyree / getBlockLists.sh
Last active March 9, 2024 12:32
Make one large blocklist from the bluetack lists on iblocklist.com
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# Download lists, unpack and filter, write to stdout
curl -s https://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php \
| sed -n "s/.*value='\(http:.*=bt_.*\)'.*/\1/p" \
| xargs wget -O - \
| gunzip \
| egrep -v '^#'
@morewry
morewry / compass-config-with-png-compression.rb
Created November 26, 2012 20:14 — forked from kswedberg/snippet.rb
Compass config with pngquant, pngout, and optipng to compress sprite
compiletype = environment
project_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/"
utils_dir = "utilities/"
utils_path = project_path + utils_dir
# callback - on_sprite_saved
# http://compass-style.org/help/tutorials/configuration-reference/
on_sprite_saved do |filename|
if File.exists?(filename)
if (compiletype == :production)
@stuartsierra
stuartsierra / fresh-chrome.sh
Last active October 13, 2020 16:07
Launch new instances of Google Chrome on OS X with isolated cache, cookies, and user config
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# fresh-chrome
#
# Use this script on OS X to launch a new instance of Google Chrome
# with its own empty cache, cookies, and user configuration.
#
# The first time you run this script, it will launch a new Google
# Chrome instance with a permanent user-data directory, which you can
# customize below. Perform any initial setup you want to keep on every
@alicial
alicial / mock-service-example.js
Last active June 10, 2019 14:26
AngularJS: Setting up a mocked service to use in controller unit tests.
// Mocked Service
angular.module('mock.users', []).
factory('UserService', function($q) {
var userService = {};
userService.get = function() {
return {
id: 8888,
name: "test user"
}