Alex Chan alexwlchan

drangreader

This is a set of scripts for aggregating RSS feeds. It's based on a script originally written by Dr. Drang: http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/11/simpler-syndication/

Download all the files from this Gist. Put them all in a directory, create a virtualenv and install requirements:

	on open some_images
	repeat with my_image in some_images
	try
	rescale_and_copy(my_image)
	end try
	end repeat
	end open

	to rescale_and_copy(my_item)
	tell application "Image Events"

	tell application "iTerm"
	activate

	-- Change this if you want to find a different process
	set myprocess to "irssi"

	set procrunning to false

	-- Count the number of terminal windows open
	set mytermcount to count of terminal

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import sys
	import os, shutil
	import subprocess
	import os.path
	from datetime import datetime

	######################## Functions #########################

	"""The cURL command line tool allows you to specify multiple URLs in a
	single string. For example:

	http://site.{one,two,three}.com
	ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[1-100].txt
	ftp://ftp.numericals.com/file[001-100].txt (with leading zeros)
	ftp://ftp.letters.com/file[a-z].txt

	This module can take a string in this format, and return the list of strings
	that it specifies. The exact syntax can be seen in the examples on the cURL man

	#!/usr/bin/python
	"""A script for managing a dictionary of acronyms. For context, see the
	associated blog post: http://alexwlchan.net/2014/12/acronyms/

	Invoke with the -h or --help flag for a usage message:

	$ ./acronyms.py -h

	Invoke with the -a or --add flag to add an acronym:

	#!/usr/bin/python
	"""elapsed.py - a script for providing a human-readable string of how much time
	has elapsed since a given date, implemented only using the standard library.
	Modelled on the style of dates used on Stack Overflow posts.
	"""

	from datetime import datetime, timedelta

	def print_date(date, incl_year=True, short_months=True):
	"""Prints a datetime object as a full date, stripping off any leading

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	"""
	A quick script for tidying up data from the HealthKit export file.

	To get an export file:
	1) Open the Health app on iOS
	2) Under "Health Data", select "All"
	3) Use the share button to get a copy of your data in XML format

	This script allows you to get data for one particular value, and turn it into

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	"""
	This is a script designed to be "safe" drop-in replacements for the
	shutil move() and copyfile() functions.

	These functions are safe because they should never overwrite an
	existing file. In particular, if you try to move/copy to dst and
	there's already a file at dst, these functions will attempt to copy to
	a slightly different (but free) filename, to avoid accidental data loss.

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import urllib2
	import json

	HOSTNAME = "example.tumblr.com"
	API_KEY = "abcdefg"

	URL = "http://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/{host}/posts?api_key={key}".format(host=HOSTNAME, key=API_KEY)