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Recursing / take_screenshot.py

Last active December 7, 2025 20:29

Take a screenshot on GNOME on Wayland, there must be a better way but it works. Written by Claude Opus 4.5

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	# /// script
	# requires-python = ">=3.10"
	# dependencies = ["PyGObject", "pillow"]
	# ///
	"""
	Take a screenshot on Wayland using xdg-desktop-portal.

	Usage:
	uv run take_screenshot.py -f output.png

Recursing / acceptedLanguages.ts

Created August 30, 2023 16:43

Parse accept-language header. Somehow I couldn't find a good enough implementation.

	// Adapted from https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/dda62b693e3e9cf9fd566085e7372c46c16fa14a/packages/next/src/server/accept-header.ts#L13

	interface Selection {
	pos: number
	q: number
	token: string
	}

	export function acceptedLanguages(rawHeader: string) {
	const header = rawHeader.replace(/[ \t]/g, '')

Recursing / EA Forum Summary Bookmarklet.js

Last active August 5, 2023 15:06

Writes a 10 bullet point summary for posts on https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/ Copy it here: https://mrcoles.com/bookmarklet/ You'll need an API key from OpenAI https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys

	(async function () {
	const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";
	const SYSTEM_PROMPT = "Summarize the following article in 10 bullet points:";

	async function getSummary(text) {
	const API_URL = "https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions";
	const data = {
	model: "gpt-3.5-turbo-16k",
	messages: [
	{

Recursing / read_selection_bookmarklet.js

Created April 29, 2023 17:56

	function getSelectedText() {
	return window.getSelection().toString();
	}

	let restartTimeout = null;
	function restartPeriodically() {
	window.speechSynthesis.pause();
	window.speechSynthesis.resume();
	restartTimeout = setTimeout(restartPeriodically, 5000);
	}

Recursing / openaibot.py

Last active March 8, 2023 14:54

	import tempfile
	import subprocess
	import openai

	from telegram import Update, InlineQueryResultArticle, InputTextMessageContent

	from telegram.ext import (
	filters,
	MessageHandler,
	ApplicationBuilder,

Recursing / STL.md

Created May 20, 2022 09:15

TIL github markdown can render STLs

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  outer loop
   vertex 0.682297 0.3 0.493181
   vertex 0.678269 0.325431 0.493181
   vertex 0.6 0.3 0.5
  endloop
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 facet normal 0.0744894 0.0379543 0.996499

Recursing / extract_biomarkers.py

Last active May 24, 2022 20:44

Extract biomarkers from pdf

	import re
	import os
	import pdfminer.high_level as pdf_reader
	import csv


	PATTERNS = [
	re.compile(p, re.M)
	for p in [
	r"^Tumor Mutational Burden\s+([^\s]+\|Not Evaluable)\s+mutations-per-megabase$(?:\n\|\s)+Microsatellite Instability(?:\n\|\s)+([^\n]+)$",

Recursing / mosco pdf extractor.py

Last active May 24, 2022 20:27

Pdf to excel

	import re
	import os
	import pdfminer.high_level as pdf_reader
	import csv

	ignore_list = ["GENE", "MSI-High", ""]


	def get_pattern(text: str) -> re.Pattern[str]:
	if "FMI Sample ID" in text:

Recursing / Multiple string replacement.py

Created March 30, 2022 12:16

	for path in cwd.rglob("*.py"):
	if 'pipstrap' in str(path):
	continue
	if str(path).count('/dev/') > 1:
	continue
	text = path.read_text()
	if 'analytics_view_id' not in text:
	continue
	print('replacing in ', path)
	for k, v in d.items():

Recursing / characteristic_words.py

Created September 14, 2021 18:35

	import collections
	import typing
	import unicodedata
	import json
	import re


	T = typing.TypeVar("T")
	K = typing.TypeVar("K")
	Message = typing.Any

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