Kurt Madsen damenleeturks

How to program the ATTiny85 on MacOS Sierra

Check MacOS version

$ sw_vers 
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.11.6
BuildVersion:	15G1611

Gmail Filters

Catch newsletters and junk

Matches: ("opt-out" OR unsubscribe OR "viewing the newsletter" OR "privacy policy" OR enews OR "edit your preferences" OR "email notifications" OR "update profile" OR smartunsubscribe OR secureunsubscribe OR yahoogroups OR "manage your account" OR "group-digests") Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "Work/Newsletters"

Keep pesky calendar invites out of inbox

Matches: (subject:("invitation" OR "accepted" OR "rejected" OR "updated" OR "canceled event" OR "declined") when where calendar who organizer) Do this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "GTD/Follow up"

Keep 90% of Sales emails out of Inbox

Open iTerm iTerm2 from Finder

The code and instructions in this gist are from http://peterdowns.com/posts/open-iterm-finder-service.html. I've had to do this a few times and wanted to distill it the basics. Update: Replaced the first script with one from http://hohonuuli.blogspot.de/2016/02/iterm2-version-3-open-iterm-here-script.html (thanks @smith64fx for the link)

Open Automator
Create an Application
Choose Actions > Utilities > Run Applescript
Paste the contents of open_in_iterm.app into the window.
Save the script somewhere convenient

2019 update: this essay has been updated on my personal site, together with a followup on how to get started

2020 update: I'm now writing a book with updated versions of all these essays and 35 other chapters!!!!

1. Learn in public

If there's a golden rule, it's this one, so I put it first. All the other rules are more or less elaborations of this rule #1.

You already know that you will never be done learning. But most people "learn in private", and lurk. They consume content without creating any themselves. Again, that's fine, but we're here to talk about being in the top quintile. What you do here is to have a habit of creating learning exhaust. Write blogs and tutorials and cheatsheets. Speak at meetups and conferences. Ask and answer things on Stackoverflow or Reddit. (Avoid the walled gardens like Slack and Discourse, they're not public). Make Youtube videos

 (function() {
 function getSelectionText() {
     // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5379120/get-the-highlighted-selected-text
     var text = "";
     if (window.getSelection) {
         text = window.getSelection().toString();
     } else if (document.selection && document.selection.type != "Control") {
         text = document.selection.createRange().text;
     }
     return text;

	if input volume of (get volume settings) = 0 then
	set level to 90
	display notification "On" with title "Mic"
	tell application "System Events"
	tell appearance preferences
	set dark mode to false
	end tell
	end tell
	else
	set level to 0

	javascript:
	/! ReadingMode © Xavi Esteve /
	(function (d) {
	var el = d.getElementsByTagName("*");
	var htmlDiv = d.createElement("div");
	var readingModeMenu = d.createElement("div");
	var readingModeAlert = d.createElement("div");
	var title = d.title;
	var rmSettings = {};

	@-moz-document url-prefix("https://mail.google.com/mail/") {

	/*
	*****
	This style is based off of Nicer New Gmail but it's really more of a slash and burn approach.
	NO COLORS except tiny bit of red and yellow and some blue I can't get rid of.
	I know just enough CSS to be dangerous and not enough to really make things work correctly. Some things it
	chokes on:
	- tabs! I don't use them so who cares what they look like
	- hangout/chat tab - I disabled this as soon as they added it, maybe it's blue, I don't know

	; acceleration_enabled = {acceleration_enabled}
	; acceleration_infill = {acceleration_infill}
	; acceleration_ironing = {acceleration_ironing}
	; acceleration_layer_0 = {acceleration_layer_0}
	; acceleration_prime_tower = {acceleration_prime_tower}
	; acceleration_print = {acceleration_print}
	; acceleration_print_layer_0 = {acceleration_print_layer_0}
	; acceleration_roofing = {acceleration_roofing}
	; acceleration_skirt_brim = {acceleration_skirt_brim}
	; acceleration_support = {acceleration_support}