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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@bendc
bendc / functional-utils.js
Last active September 15, 2023 12:12
A set of pure ES2015 functions aimed to make functional JavaScript more idiomatic.
// array utils
// =================================================================================================
const combine = (...arrays) => [].concat(...arrays);
const compact = arr => arr.filter(Boolean);
const contains = (() => Array.prototype.includes
? (arr, value) => arr.includes(value)
: (arr, value) => arr.some(el => el === value)
// p = require('./extract_meteor_deps');
// Package = p.Package;
// getPackageDeps = p.getPackageDeps; depsByPackage = p.depsByPackage;
//
// > getPackageDeps('spacebars')
// ['htmljs', 'blaze', 'observe-sequence', 'templating']
// > depsByPackage
// {"spacebars": ['htmljs', 'blaze', 'observe-sequence', 'templating']}
var Package, api, depsByPackage, getPackageDeps, mockApiUse, _;
@imjasonh
imjasonh / get.sh
Last active October 28, 2021 06:19
#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -x
LIMIT=10000
for h in `seq 0 23`
do
for d in `seq 1 7`
@pnc
pnc / observer.md
Last active September 9, 2023 23:32
Using Erlang observer/appmon remotely

Using OTP's observer (appmon replacement) remotely

$ ssh remote-host "epmd -names"
epmd: up and running on port 4369 with data:
name some_node at port 58769

Note the running on port for epmd itself and the port of the node you're interested in debugging. Reconnect to the remote host with these ports forwarded:

$ ssh -L 4369:localhost:4369 -L 58769:localhost:58769 remote-host
@kevincennis
kevincennis / v8.md
Last active March 2, 2024 21:50
V8 Installation and d8 shell usage

Installing V8 on a Mac

Prerequisites

  • Install Xcode (Avaliable on the Mac App Store)
  • Install Xcode Command Line Tools (Preferences > Downloads)
  • Install depot_tools
    • $ git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
    • $ nano ~/.zshrc
    • Add path=('/path/to/depot_tools' $path)
input {
file {
path => "/var/log/nginx/access.log"
type => "nginx-access"
sincedb_path => "/var/log/.nginxaccesssincedb"
}
}
input {
file {
path => "/var/log/nginx/error.log"
@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active April 25, 2024 02:01
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"

Results

@grantslatton
grantslatton / hngen.py
Last active September 27, 2021 11:07
A program that uses Markov chains to generate probabilistic Hacker News titles.
import urllib2
import re
import sys
from collections import defaultdict
from random import random
"""
PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS QUOTED CODE FOR THE SAKE OF daemonology's SERVER, IT IS
NOT MY SERVER AND I FEEL BAD FOR ABUSING IT. JUST GET THE RESULTS OF THE
CRAWL HERE: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=nqpsnTtW AND SAVE THEM TO "archive.txt"