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dnicolson / youtube.sh

Last active February 24, 2019 23:26

After generating a new provisioning profile, this will re-sign and deploy the old YouTube app to an Apple TV

	#!/bin/bash

	# npm install -g applesign ios-deploy

	APPLE_TV=xxx
	YOUTUBE_IPA="YouTube 1.2.1.ipa"

	provision() {
	cd ~/Library/MobileDevice/Provisioning\ Profiles

dnicolson / weatherspect.rb

Last active December 17, 2019 00:11

A brew formula for weatherspect, the changes on line 99 fix an SSL issue but the weather parsing no longer works

	class Weatherspect < Formula
	desc "Virtual weather environment in ASCII"
	homepage "http://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/html/"
	url "http://robobunny.com/projects/weatherspect/weatherspect_v1.11.tar.gz"
	sha256 "6186b41c7db8529eaf98864c2760837a2664cf107d1fa53620beef686c2dc1b8"

	depends_on "openssl"

	resource "Curses" do
	url "https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GI/GIRAFFED/Curses-1.34.tar.gz"

dnicolson / iOSKeyboardEscapeKeyEnablerBluetooth.c

Created January 23, 2019 23:47

Support for the corner home button on an iOS keyboard to act as an escape key by analysing Bluetooth packets

	// clang -framework Carbon iOSKeyboardEscapeKeyEnablerBluetooth.c -o iOSKeyboardEscapeKeyEnablerBluetooth
	// sudo ./iOSKeyboardEscapeKeyEnablerBluetooth

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>

	void TriggerEscKey()
	{
	CGEventRef event;

dnicolson / github-commits.js

Created December 18, 2018 21:33

This reads the Link HTTP header and counts the pages of commits (the contributors and search API's do not give accurate commit counts).

	const fetch = require('node-fetch');
	const parse = require('parse-link-header');

	async function githubCommits(owner, repository) {
	const response = await fetch(`https://api.github.com/repos/${owner}/${repository}/commits`);

	let link;
	if (response.headers) {
	for (let pair of response.headers.entries()) {
	if (pair[0] === 'link') {

dnicolson / pixelsnap.rb

Last active July 3, 2019 20:17

This cask installs PixelSnap from a disk image in the current directory

	require 'uri'

	cask 'pixelsnap' do
	version '1.4.1'
	sha256 '13831053af6c1774107619b9419253a3127e2b4eb02e52f8099108e260dcf1d7'

	url "file://#{URI.encode(File.expand_path(File.dirname(ARGV[1] \|\| '')))}/PixelSnap-1.4.1.dmg"
	name 'PixelSnap'
	homepage 'https://getpixelsnap.com/'

dnicolson / dropbox-git.sh

Created November 4, 2018 16:35

Clone a bare git repo from Dropbox

	curl -L https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xxx/yyy > project.git.zip
	mkdir project.git
	unzip project.git.zip -d project.git
	git clone project.git
	rm project.git.zip
	rm -rf project.git

dnicolson / itunes-add-songs.js

Last active November 10, 2018 17:39

JXA to add songs to a playlist based on an artist and list of songs

	const ARTIST = ''
	let TRACKS = []

	const app = Application('iTunes')
	const destinationPlaylist = app.userPlaylists.whose({name: {_equals: ARTIST}})[0]

	TRACKS.forEach((name) => {
	const matchedNames = app.playlists.whose({name: 'Library'})[0].tracks
	.whose({name: {_equals: name}})

dnicolson / phoneview.rb

Last active July 3, 2019 20:17

If the PHONEVIEW_REGISTRATION_LINK environment variable is defined, this can be part of provisioning a new machine by using "brew cask install phoneview.rb"

	cask 'phoneview' do
	version :latest
	sha256 :no_check

	url do
	customer_center = ENV['PHONEVIEW_REGISTRATION_LINK']
	markup = `curl -L '#{customer_center}' 2>&1`
	markup.scan(%r{href="([^"]+.dmg)"}).flatten.first
	end
	name 'PhoneView'

dnicolson / incorrect-sentence-case.js

Last active February 18, 2018 18:48

JXA script to find songs with incorrect sentence case

	const lowercaseWords = ['a', 'an', 'and', 'at', 'but', 'by', 'for', 'in', 'nor', 'of', 'on', 'or', 'so', 'the', 'to', 'with']
	.map(word => ` ${word.toLowerCase().replace(/(^\| )(\w)/g, s => s.toUpperCase())} `).join('\|')

	const iTunes = Application('iTunes'),
	selection = iTunes.selection()

	let songsToFix = []
	selection.forEach((song) => {
	const newName = song.name(),
	newAlbum = song.album(),

dnicolson / update-itunes-track-count.rb

Last active October 11, 2017 14:58

	require 'json'
	require 'plist'
	require 'tempfile'
	require 'terminal-table'


	class Hash
	def without(*keys)
	copy = self.dup
	keys.each { \|key\| copy.delete(key) }

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