alifeee

Factorio Map

Incremental explorable maps of a Factorio game played with 16 people and proximity chat using https://github.com/alifeee/Factorio-Proximity-Voice-Chat/

To create maps

Using https://github.com/L0laapk3/FactorioMaps as instructed.

With:

How to start blogging

You might not think you should blog. I think you should.

I like your thoughts! I want to be able to read them!

Here are some other reasons:

todepond's thoughts (122 words)
Max Böck's thoughts (1,565 words)

Common RSS URL extensions

I like blogs. I like RSS feeds. Often, blogs don't have an RSS feed link. Often, these blogs do have an RSS feed, thanks to whatever site generator they use.

Thus, I like to try and find the hidden feed. These are the URLs I usually put on the URL to try and find the feed.

For example, blog.alifeee.co.uk -> blog.alifeee.co.uk/feed.xml

/feed

How to run things as a service on Ubuntu

I run things on my server. I'd like to run them in the background, so they restart when the server restarts.

I was running them "in the background" with tmux, which I had to set up again every time the server restarted. This was annoying. So, here I run them as a service.

I had a vague knowledge of services, because some things I use are one, like nginx and murmur for mumble.

Firstly

Bash Graphs

Line graphs 📈📉
Bar graphs 📊

Line Graphs

Plot graphs using the terminal. E.g.,

Using Ruby on Linux

Install Ruby + Gems

sudo apt-get install ruby-full
gem install bundler
bundle config set --local path 'vendor/bundle'
bundle install

	"""create a histogram of "hours per week" from timesheets"""

	import csv
	import sys
	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
	from datetime import datetime, timedelta
	import numpy

	FNAME = "combined.csv"

	#!/bin/bash
	# combines SquareSpace RSS feeds
	# Squarespace default feed (e.g., https://www.treehousesheffield.com/events?format=rss) only returns the current month
	# This script fetches the current month and the next two months and combines them into a single RSS feed
	# The script is intended to be run as a cron job
	# It should work for any SquareSpace site (assuming they use the same query variable format)
	# usage e.g.,
	# ./combinerss.sh https://www.treehousesheffield.com/events?format=rss > /var/www/html/treehousesheffield.com/events.rss

	# get today month and year

	#!/bin/bash
	# convert a Gimp colour palette (.gpl) to a list of CSS variables
	# example:
	# ./gpl-to-css.sh my-palette.gpl > my-palette.css
	# converts
	# ----- my-palette.gpl -----
	# GIMP Palette
	# Name: My Palette
	# Columns: 3
	# 255 0 0 Red

	#!/bin/bash
	# converts a font (.woff) filename to a CSS @font-face and class-selector based on filename
	# example:
	# ./filename_to_css.sh "path/to/my-font.woff"
	# with multiple files
	# find path/to/fonts -name "*.woff" -exec ./filename_to_css.sh {} \;

	# get name from regex match
	name_regex='\/([^\/]*)\.woff$'
	if [[ $1 =~ $name_regex ]]; then