Richard Watt botsmack

Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

ESPN's hidden API endpoints

Football

College Football

Latest News: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/news

Latest Scores: http://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/football/college-football/scoreboard

Transcoding video on Windows, the Don Melton way

Don Melton provides some amazing scripts that wrap HandBrake to produce high quality, portable versions of Blu Ray rips. The tools Don provides are written in Ruby, and they're packaged as a Ruby Gem. All the tools are cross platform, requiring only the Ruby runtime to be installed. But they do depend on external programs to get anything useful done. These dependencies are cross platform as well, but Windows has no standard package management system (de facto or otherwise), so installing these dependencies for Windows can be a bit of a pain. But it is possible! Here's how

Downloads

HandBrakeCLI
Get version 1.0.1
ffmpeg, the actual download page for Windows is here
Get the 3.2.2 'static' release.

	authority letsencrypt {
	api url "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory"
	account key "/etc/acme/letsencrypt-privkey.pem"
	}

	# example.net
	domain example.net {
	alternative names { www.example.net }
	domain key "/etc/ssl/private/example.net.key"
	domain certificate "/etc/ssl/example.net.crt"

	import board
	import neopixel
	import usb_hid
	import touchio
	import time
	from time import sleep
	from adafruit_hid.mouse import Mouse
	from random import randint

	HOW_LONG = 10 # How long between jiggles in seconds

	{
	"live_retry_timeout": 60,
	"preferred_language": "en",
	"check_updates": true,
	"save_logs": true,
	"log_location": "",
	"horizontal_layout": false,
	"theme": {
	"background_color": "#000000",
	"border_color": "#0CA597",

	tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mail"
	set mainWindow to a reference to the first window
	set rootSplitter to a reference to the first splitter group of the mainWindow
	set firstSplitter to a reference to the last splitter group of the rootSplitter
	set scrollArea to a reference to the last scroll area of the firstSplitter
	set scrollGroup to a reference to the first group of the scrollArea

	if number of groups of the scrollGroup is greater than 1 then
	set maybeRemoteContentGroup to a reference to the first group of the scrollGroup

	#!/bin/vbash

	# CONFIG
	wan=dhcp
	lan=192.168.1.1
	lan_segment=192.168.1.0
	vpn_segment=192.168.5.0
	domain=apertoire.org
	lease_start=192.168.1.200
	lease_stop=192.168.1.245

	defaults write com.apple.Dock appswitcher-all-displays -bool true
	killall Dock

	from ctypes import CDLL

	loginPF = CDLL('/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/login.framework/Versions/Current/login')
	result = loginPF.SACLockScreenImmediate()