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@aembleton
aembleton / docx2md.md
Last active May 17, 2023 07:04 — forked from vdavez/docx2md.md
Convert a Word Document into MD

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

@koreno
koreno / README.md
Last active April 1, 2020 10:44
'rebaser' improves on 'git rebase -i' by adding information per commit regarding which files it touched.

Prebase

git-prebase improves on 'git rebase -i' by adding information per commit regarding which files it touched.

  • Each file gets an alpha-numeric identifier at a particular column, a list of which appears below the commit list. (The identifiers wrap around after the 62nd file)
  • Commits can be moved up and down safely (without conflicts) as long as their columns don't clash (they did not touch the same file).

Installation

Add the executable to your path and git will automatically expose it as

@obfusk
obfusk / break.py
Last active November 10, 2025 05:32
python "breakpoint" (more or less equivalent to ruby's binding.pry); for a proper debugger, use https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html
import code; code.interact(local=dict(globals(), **locals()))
#!/bin/sh
BOOT2DOCKER_CERTS_DIR=/var/lib/boot2docker/certs
CERTS_DIR=/etc/ssl/certs
CAFILE=${CERTS_DIR}/ca-certificates.crt
for cert in $(/bin/ls -1 ${BOOT2DOCKER_CERTS_DIR}); do
SRC_CERT_FILE=${BOOT2DOCKER_CERTS_DIR}/${cert}
CERT_FILE=${CERTS_DIR}/${cert}
HASH_FILE=${CERTS_DIR}/$(/usr/local/bin/openssl x509 -noout -hash -in ${SRC_CERT_FILE} 2>/dev/null)
#!/system/bin/sh
set -u
## ========================================================================================
## alfred : manages an ArchLinux rootfs for enable LXC usage on Android
## ========================================================================================
PROGNAME="alfred"
PROGVERS="0.0.6"
PROGCONF="/data/$PROGNAME"
PROGHELP="Usage: $PROGNAME [cmd]
@ThisIsMissEm
ThisIsMissEm / handler.js
Created November 25, 2014 18:53
The better way to execute Go on Amazon Lambda (see: http://blog.0x82.com/2014/11/24/aws-lambda-functions-in-go/)
var child_process = require('child_process');
exports.handler = function(event, context) {
var proc = spawn('./test', [ JSON.stringify(event) ], { stdio: 'inherit' });
proc.on('close', function(code){
if(code !== 0) {
return context.done(new Error("Process exited with non-zero status code"));
}
@complexsplit
complexsplit / dl-vmworld-2014-content-v.01.rb
Last active August 29, 2015 14:07
Download VMworld 2014 Content
# replace names and emails with your own.
require 'watir-webdriver'
require 'phantomjs'
require 'open-uri'
require 'progressbar'
b = Watir::Browser.new :phantomjs
b.goto 'http://www.vmworld.com/community/sessions/2014'
# possibly repalce url w/ http://vmware.mediasite.com/mediasite/Catalog/Full/daea26ff56894512a04687ead2afc51821 to escape frames
#!/bin/bash
JQPATH=$(which jq)
if [ "x$JQPATH" == "x" ]; then
echo "Couldn't find jq executable." 1>&2
exit 2
fi
set -eu
shopt -s nullglob
@ei-grad
ei-grad / haproxy.cfg
Last active April 3, 2018 08:29
Trivial haproxy config for tcp port forwarding
listen l1
bind 0.0.0.0:80
mode tcp
timeout connect 4000
timeout client 180000
timeout server 180000
server srv1 192.168.1.1:80
global
user "nobody"
"UserData": {
"Fn::Base64": { "Fn::Join":["", [
"#!/bin/bash -ex\n",
"apt-get update\n",
"apt-get -y install python-setuptools\n",
"mkdir aws-cfn-bootstrap-latest\n",
"curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/aws-cfn-bootstrap-latest.tar.gz | tar xz -C aws-cfn-bootstrap-latest --strip-components 1\n",
"easy_install aws-cfn-bootstrap-latest\n",
"/usr/local/bin/cfn-init --stack ", { "Ref":"AWS::StackName" }, " --resource WebServer", " --region ", { "Ref": "AWS::Region" }, "\n",
"\n",