NicoMancinelli

Theming Slack for OSX

So, you love Slack, but you hate applications with large white backgrounds? Why not use Dark Mode!

Unfortunately, Slack does not have a Dark Mode, although it's on their list of possibilities.

But, don't fret - there is a solution! Because the slack native desktop apps are just wrappers around a web app, we can inject our own CSS to customize the application to our liking.

How to (OSX Only)

How to download streaming video

Streaming just means a download that they don't want you to keep. But Chrome's developer tools make it easy to access what's really going on under the hood.

Open Developer Tools

From the page where you want to download some things, go into your chrome menu to open the developer tools. You can either:

1.  (On a mac): Command-option-J
2. (On a PC): Control-alt-J

Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a dashboard server with Dashing

Why the heck did I do this?

I wanted to set up one of my Raspberry Pi's as a data dashboard, pushing sensor data to a web interface that's easy to digest. I decided to use Shopify's Dashing framework. Dashing is based on Sinatra, and is pretty lightweight.

Dashing does require Ruby 1.9.3 to run. In addition, it makes use of the execjs gem, which needs to have a working Javascript interpreter available. Originally, I tried to get therubyracer working, but decided to switch over to Node.js when I ran into roadblocks compiling V8.

One warning: The RPi is a very slow system compared with modern multi-core x86-style systems. It's pretty robust, but compiling all this complex software taxes the system quite a bit. Expect that it's going to take at least half a day to get everything going.

	$file = Get-Content "c:\test\test.txt"
	$WshShell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell
	$Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut("c:\test\test.lnk")
	$Shortcut.TargetPath = "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe"
	$Shortcut.IconLocation = "%SystemRoot%\System32\Shell32.dll,21"
	$Shortcut.Arguments = ' '+ $file
	$Shortcut.Save()

	:: Install choco .exe and add choco to PATH
	@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

	:: Install all the packages
	:::: Browsers
	choco install googlechrome -fy
	choco install firefox -fy

	:::: Text editors / IDEs
	choco install atom -fy

	#!/bin/bash

	if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
	echo "This script must be run as root"
	exit 1
	else
	#Update and Upgrade
	echo "Updating and Upgrading"
	apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

	global mac_path, win_path

	tell application "Finder"
	try
	set theFilePOSIX to POSIX path of (selection as string)
	on error
	display dialog "Please select a file on a server volume before running this script." buttons {"OK"} default button "OK" with icon 0 with title "Error - Nothing Selected"
	return
	end try
	set TempTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# coding: utf-8
	# vim:ts=4 sts=4 tw=100:
	# pylint: disable=C0103
	# pylint: disable=C0301
	# pylint: disable=C0411
	# pylint: disable=C0413
	# pylint: disable=W0611
	# pylint: disable=W0612
	# pylint: disable=W0702


	"""
	This is a simple script showing how you can used plexpys notifications system to kill a stream

	Possible plexpyargs: -tk {transcode_key} -u {username} -td {transcode_decision} -t 20:20 -ln Secret_tash

	Instructions:

	1. Save the script somewhere on your computer as kill_a_stream.py.

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	# sample usage: checksites.py eriwen.com nixtutor.com yoursite.org

	import pickle, os, sys, logging
	from httplib import HTTPConnection, socket
	from smtplib import SMTP

	def email_alert(message, status):
	fromaddr = '[email protected]'