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FFmpeg Commands

see video information

# see all information
ffmpeg -i input.mp4
# format resolution nicely
ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width,height -of csv=s=x:p=0 input.mp4

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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

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Bash Graphs

• Line graphs 📈📉
• Bar graphs 📊

Line Graphs

Plot graphs using the terminal. E.g.,

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#!/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

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#!/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

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#!/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

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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

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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

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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)

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"""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"