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bcks / Calendar of Police Killings

Last active April 1, 2021 17:55

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8" />
	<title>Calendar of Police Killings</title>

	<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Fira+Sans:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

	<style>
	body { font-family: 'Fira Sans'; text-align: center; }

bcks / htmldiff.js

Created January 31, 2021 14:57

htmldiff

	(function() {
	var Match, calculate_operations, consecutive_where, create_index, diff, find_match, find_matching_blocks, html_to_tokens, is_end_of_tag, is_start_of_tag, is_tag, is_whitespace, isnt_tag, op_map, recursively_find_matching_blocks, render_operations, wrap;

	is_end_of_tag = function(char) {
	return char === '>';
	};

	is_start_of_tag = function(char) {
	return char === '<';
	};

bcks / nyt-banner-headlines.csv

Created January 6, 2021 21:13

A list of every banner headline appearing in The New York Times from its founding through the end of 2020. Collected for the visualization project https://backspace.com/bignews

We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: No commas found in this CSV file in line 0.

	Date
	1912-04-16
	1912-04-17
	1912-04-18
	1912-04-19
	1912-07-03
	1912-10-15
	1914-04-22
	1914-04-24
	1914-04-25

bcks / scrpt

Created June 27, 2020 17:11

Use AppleScript to export all open Safari Tabs into a BBEdit list

	(*
	Make a BBEdit list of all open Safari tabs

	Adapted by John Emerson, https://backspace.com
	from Jesse Squires, https://www.jessesquires.com
	who adapted it from http://veritrope.com/code/safari-tab-list-to-omnifocus/
	*)

	global allItems
	set allItems to {}

bcks / index.js

Last active November 27, 2020 07:36

tableau-covid-scraping

	// Works with Node v12.0 and puppeteer 4.0

	const URL = 'https://public.tableau.com/views/PPV_15924847800480/ppv_db?%3Aembed=y&%3AshowVizHome=no&%3Adisplay_count=y&%3Adisplay_static_image=n&%3AbootstrapWhenNotified=true&%3Alanguage=en&:embed=y&:showVizHome=n&:apiID=host0';

	const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');




	function parseDataDictionary(jsonParsed) {

bcks / #30DayMapChallenge.csv

Created November 30, 2019 18:37

Tweets from the #30DayMapChallenge, 2019

We can't make this file beautiful and searchable because it's too large.

	id,conversation_id,created_at,date,time,timezone,user_id,username,name,place,tweet,mentions,urls,photos,replies_count,retweets_count,likes_count,hashtags,cashtags,link,retweet,quote_url,video,near,geo,source,user_rt_id,user_rt,retweet_id,reply_to,retweet_date
	1200809611835707392,1192855827272675329,1575130296000,2019-11-30,11:11:36,EST,1192848641771393027,colmixe,Colmix,,"Día 30: Hogar / Tëk'äm

	¿Y cómo no pensar en el territorio y las comunidades mixes sin pensar en la música?

	El título de la obra musical es el título del mapa ¿Sabes cuál es?

	#30daymapchallenge pic.twitter.com/RoiBym0ahe",[],[],['https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKoh5_fWwAUNXMl.jpg'],0,0,0,['#30daymapchallenge'],[],https://twitter.com/Colmixe/status/1200809611835707392,False,,0,,,,,,,"[{'user_id': '1192848641771393027', 'username': 'Colmixe'}]",
	1200807377500545024,1200807377500545024,1575129763000,2019-11-30,11:02:43,EST,2198358416,tjukanov,Topi Tjukanov,,"If I would like to do some analysis and collect basic statistics for the #30DayMapChalle

bcks / gist:6f3c16ee0cec701c10ce67b104865517

Last active January 18, 2018 13:44

Make an image of text

	// a node.js method for creating images of text
	// as used in https://twitter.com/nytanon and https://twitter.com/wapoanon

	function makeImage(object, que, callback) {

	var text = object.text;

	var Canvas = require('canvas'),
	Image = Canvas.Image,
	canvas = new Canvas(200, 200),

bcks / catalogbot.js

Last active July 6, 2017 13:59

Cooper Hewitt Catalog Bot

	var fs = require('fs'),
	PDFDocument = require('pdfkit'),
	async = require('async'),
	ColorThief = require('color-thief'),
	colorThief = new ColorThief();


	var bookWidth = 430;
	var bookHeight = 343;

bcks / fisabot.js

Created October 7, 2015 19:57

FISAbot is a bot for expedited processing of FISA warrant requests via Twitter. Not officially affiliated with the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

	var Twitter = require('node-twitter');

	function getVerdict() {
	// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court
	var caseNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 33942) + 1;
	if (caseNumber <= 11) { return 'Application denied. Please submit appeal to the Court of Review.'; }
	else if ((caseNumber > 11) && (caseNumber <= 504 + 515)) { return 'Please modify your request and resubmit.'; }
	else { return 'I authorize this request.'; }
	}

bcks / brookyln_museum.js

Last active August 29, 2015 14:05

Brooklyn Museum Bot

	// runs under Node.js

	var fs = require('fs'),
	request = require('request'),
	Twitter = require('node-twitter');

	var twitterRestClient = new Twitter.RestClient(
	'CONSUMER_KEY',
	'CONSUMER_SECRET',
	'TOKEN',

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