Snawoot

Poor Man's Global Traffic Manager

Sometimes we need to add redundancy to some service or server which happen to be a public-facing entry point of our infrastructure. For example, imagine we want to add a high availability pair for a load balancer which sits on the edge of network and forwards traffic to alive backend servers.

                                             ┌─────────────┐
                                             │             │
                                      ┌─────►│  Backend 1  │
                                      │      │             │
                                      │      └─────────────┘

bxparks

#!/bin/bash
#
# Self-contained command line processing in bash that supports the
# minimal, lowest common denominator compatibility of flag parsing.

# -u: undefined variables is an error
# -e: exit shell on error
set -eu

function usage() {

al45tair

The Zoom install package for macOS is mad. Rather than actually using the installer to install things, it does everything in the preinstall script. That's bonkers, and also means that the system won't have a list of the files it installed, because it's doing it using shell script.

The script appears to install two items, namely:

/Applications/zoom.us.app
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin

If the user opening the package isn't an administrator, it looks like it will install the app in the user's home folder instead. If they are an administrator, Zoom will delete the ZoomUsPlugIn.plugin from /Library if it's there, but it still installs to ~/Library.

It also adds Zoom to your Dock automatically, without asking.

jayliew

# Props to user brechmos for sharing the code here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=55100

# Tested with the following barcode scanner
# macbook# ioreg -p IOUSB 
# <snip>
#   | +-o WIT 122-UFS V2.03@14200000  <class AppleUSBDevice, id 0x10000c3c4, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (6 ms), retain 14>

#        WIT 122-UFS V2.03:
#          Product ID: 0x1010
#          Vendor ID: 0x05fe  (CHIC TECHNOLOGY CORP)

gboudreau

Generating Authy passwords on other authenticators

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*update: TBC, but this new might affect how easy it is to use this technique past August 2024: Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August

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This gist, based in part on a gist by Brian Hartvigsen, allows you to export from Authy your TOTP tokens you have stored there.
Those can be "standard" 6-digits / 30 secs tokens, or Authy's own version, the 7-digits / 10 secs tokens.

timpulver

var exec = require('child_process').exec;
var chokidar = require('chokidar');

/*
 * Watches a folder for changes in markdown (*.md) files and compiles them to ICML (Adobe InDesign CC / InCopy format)
 *
 * Dependencies:
 *  - Install Pandoc: pandoc.org
 *  - Run "npm install chokidar"
 *

jarmitage

import urllib
import datetime as dt
import pytz
from PIL import Image
import numpy as np
import subprocess
import socket
import os

dir = '/FULL/PATH/TO/SCRIPT/DIR'

jesperronn

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in One Move

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

Installing Pandoc

On a mac you can use homebrew by running the command brew install pandoc.

The Solution

andyscott

#!/usr/bin/osascript

# usage: zoom <room-number> [room-password] [--name=NAME]

on split(theString, theDelimiter)
	set oldDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to theDelimiter
	set theArray to every text item of theString
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelimiters
	return theArray

aembleton

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in One Move

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

Installing Pandoc

On a mac you can use homebrew by running the command brew install pandoc.

The Solution