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Got Retweets?

Even though Twitter's statuses/retweets API endpoint is limited to the last 100 retweets it is possible to use the search/tweets endpoint to search for the retweets using the text of the tweet. Caveat: This is only possible for tweets that have happened in the last 7 days, which is furthest back Twitter allow you to search for tweets in.

For example here is how you can get the retweets for this tweet and analyze the users in a spreadsheet.

@danihodovic
danihodovic / main.tf
Created January 8, 2017 20:48
Terraform - static site using S3, Cloudfront and Route53
variable "aws_region" {
default = "eu-west-1"
}
variable "domain" {
default = "my_domain"
}
provider "aws" {
region = "${var.aws_region}"
@ralphschindler
ralphschindler / README.md
Last active February 25, 2026 11:12
Docker For Mac Host Address Alias To Enable PHP XDebug (10.254.254.254 Trick)

Docker (Mac) De-facto Standard Host Address Alias

This launchd script will ensure that your Docker environment on your Mac will have 10.254.254.254 as an alias on your loopback device (127.0.0.1). The command being run is ifconfig lo0 alias 10.254.254.254.

Once your machine has a well known IP address, your PHP container will then be able to connect to it, specifically XDebug can connect to it at the configured xdebug.remote_host.

Installation Of IP Alias (This survives reboot)

Copy/Paste the following in terminal with sudo (must be root as the target directory is owned by root)...

@bmershon
bmershon / .block
Last active September 27, 2023 10:12
Hofstadter's G Sequence
border: no
height: 960
license: gpl-3.0
@Faheetah
Faheetah / Jenkinsfile.groovy
Last active April 3, 2026 17:34
Jenkinsfile idiosynchrasies with escaping and quotes
node {
echo 'Results included as an inline comment exactly how they are returned as of Jenkins 2.121, with $BUILD_NUMBER = 1'
echo 'No quotes, pipeline command in single quotes'
sh 'echo $BUILD_NUMBER' // 1
echo 'Double quotes are silently dropped'
sh 'echo "$BUILD_NUMBER"' // 1
echo 'Even escaped with a single backslash they are dropped'
sh 'echo \"$BUILD_NUMBER\"' // 1
echo 'Using two backslashes, the quotes are preserved'
sh 'echo \\"$BUILD_NUMBER\\"' // "1"
@matmoody
matmoody / live_face.py
Last active September 12, 2017 04:21
Live Face Recognition With Nest Cam And Project Oxford
import json
import requests
class LiveFace():
# Connect To Nest Cam REST Streaming API
def get_stream(self, cam_url):
# Manipulate the response so we can detect if motion was detected
DATA_PREFIX = 'data: '
@curran
curran / README.md
Last active August 12, 2026 08:16
The Iris Dataset

This is the "Iris" dataset. Originally published at UCI Machine Learning Repository: Iris Data Set, this small dataset from 1936 is often used for testing out machine learning algorithms and visualizations (for example, Scatter Plot). Each row of the table represents an iris flower, including its species and dimensions of its botanical parts, sepal and petal, in centimeters.

The HTML page provides the basic code required to load the data and display it on the page (as JSON) using D3.js.

For a more up to date code example with React & D3, see (VizHub: Stylized Scatter Plot)[https://vizhub.com/curran/3d631093c2334030a6b27fa979bb4a0d?edit=files&file=index.js].

@chadrien
chadrien / README.md
Last active April 23, 2026 14:00
Debug PHP in Docker with PHPStorm and Xdebug

Debug your PHP in Docker with Intellij/PHPStorm and Xdebug

  1. For your local dev, create a Dockerfile that is based on your production image and simply install xdebug into it. Exemple:
FROM php:5

RUN yes | pecl install xdebug \
&& echo "zend_extension=$(find /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/ -name xdebug.so)" > /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini \
@karpathy
karpathy / min-char-rnn.py
Last active July 21, 2026 18:39
Minimal character-level language model with a Vanilla Recurrent Neural Network, in Python/numpy
"""
Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
BSD License
"""
import numpy as np
# data I/O
data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file
chars = list(set(data))
data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars)
@dpryden
dpryden / ClassLoaderLeakExample.java
Created October 20, 2014 00:01
Example of a ClassLoader leak in Java
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URLClassLoader;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.Path;
/**
* Example demonstrating a ClassLoader leak.
*
* <p>To see it in action, copy this file to a temp directory somewhere,