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Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

Twitter

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import java.util.HashMap;
import spark.Filter;
import spark.Request;
import spark.Response;
import spark.Spark;

/**
 * Really simple helper for enabling CORS in a spark application;
 */
public final class CorsFilter {

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perl -ne'if(/[\w\.\-\_]+@([\w\-\_]+\.)+[A-Za-z]{2,4}/g){print "$&\n"}' email_to_delete.txt | sort | uniq > delete_these.txt

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# after appcleaner does his magic, do this

sudo rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/Paragon Software/"
sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.paragon-software.installer.plist
sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.paragon-software.ntfs.loader.plist
sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.paragon-software.ntfsd.plist
sudo rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.paragon-software.ntfs.notification-agent.plist
sudo rm -rf /Library/Filesystems/ufsd_NTFS.fs/
sudo rm -rf /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.paragon-software.installer
sudo rm -rf /Library/Extensions/ufsd_NTFS.kext/

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What happened?

Recently, I did a bit of shuffling around with my devices. My dad wanted wifi he can carry around. So I gave him the Huwaie portable router and my brother got my wall plugged 3G dongle and I was left with my trusty ol' TP-LINK-MR3020. Since I use 3G myself, I decided I would utilise the TP-LINK and so got a NETGEAR dongle without inbuilt wifi instead of a new 3g/4G dongle (cause it was cheaper and won't interfere with TP-LINK's wifi signal). Then in a hurry to get my router to work I flashed it with the upgrade firmware and something went wrong along the way and it bricked the device (3 lights blinking intermittently).

The way to prop it back to life is to to get a serial connection from the device. This involves prying open the device (voids warranty but the concept of warranty itself is mostly useless anyway).

How to?

There are two ways to go about this:

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import Up from './index'

declare module '@ioc:Adonis/Core/HttpContext' {
  interface HttpContextContract {
    up: Up
  }
}