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drdrang / gist:7858623

Created December 8, 2013 15:00

Get the URL of the top item in a Squarespace blog.

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import json, urllib2

	r = urllib2.urlopen('http://wrappedthoughts.com/?format=json-pretty').read()
	j = json.loads(r)
	print j['items'][0]['urlId']

drdrang / Cleanbar Side by Side.py

Created November 16, 2013 03:32

Create a new image from two screenshots chosen from the Camera Roll. Clean the statusbars of both screenshots using the Cleanbar.py module (https://gist.github.com/drdrang/7365980).

	import Image
	from Cleanbar import cleanbar
	import console, photos

	s1 = cleanbar(photos.pick_image())
	s2 = cleanbar(photos.pick_image())

	w = s1.size[0] + s2.size[0] + 60
	h = max(s1.size[1], s2.size[1]) + 40
	ss = Image.new('RGB', (w,h), '#888')

drdrang / Cleanbar.py

Last active July 6, 2017 20:28

Clean up the statusbar of an iOS screenshot. The time in the statusbar is maintained, but all other graphics are stripped out and replaced with graphics that show full battery and signal strength. The cellular provider is replaced with the Apple logo, . All graphics are built into the script, which works for any Retina iOS device in any orienta…

	#!/usr/bin/python

	import Image
	import base64, zlib

	# Jay Parlar convinced me to turn this data structure
	# from a dictionary into an object.
	class PackedImage(object):
	def __init__(self, mode, size, data):
	self.mode = mode

drdrang / simple-mathjax.html

Created December 5, 2012 03:27

Simple MathJax example

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>MathJax Test</title>
	<meta name="generator" content="BBEdit">
	<script type="text/javascript"
	src="https://c328740.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML">
	</script>
	</head>

	<body>

drdrang / pyplot-contents.html

Created November 28, 2012 01:29

Hyperlinked table of contents for matplotlib's pyplot library.

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>matplotlib.pyplot contents</title>
	<style type="text/css">
	table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
	}

	table th {
	padding: .5em 1em .25em 1em;

drdrang / rss-subscribers.sh

Created September 29, 2012 04:42

Bash script to parse Apache log for a count of RSS subscribers and email it to you

	#!/bin/bash

	# Schedule this to run once a day with cron. Doesn't matter what time since it parses yesterday's hits (by default).
	# I only tested this on the Marco.org server, which runs CentOS (RHEL). No idea how it'll work on other distributions, but it's pretty basic.

	# Required variables:
	RSS_URI="/rss"
	MAIL_TO="[email protected]"
	LOG_FILE="/var/log/httpd/access_log"

drdrang / smarten.js

Created November 18, 2010 14:51

A very simple quote and dash smartener in JS. Used to make my tweets look nicer.

	// Change straight quotes to curly and double hyphens to em-dashes.
	function smarten(a) {
	a = a.replace(/(^\|[-\u2014/(\[{"\s])'/g, "$1\u2018"); // opening singles
	a = a.replace(/'/g, "\u2019"); // closing singles & apostrophes
	a = a.replace(/(^\|[-\u2014/(\[{\u2018\s])"/g, "$1\u201c"); // opening doubles
	a = a.replace(/"/g, "\u201d"); // closing doubles
	a = a.replace(/--/g, "\u2014"); // em-dashes
	return a
	};

drdrang / Open URLs in Safari Tabs.pl

Created August 7, 2010 02:36 — forked from gruber/Open URLs in Safari Tabs.pl

Alteration of Gruber's script to work with other browsers. See http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2010/08/open-urls-in-default-browser/

	#!/usr/bin/env perl

	# Description: http://daringfireball.net/2010/08/open_urls_in_safari_tabs
	# License: See below.
	# http://gist.github.com/507356

	use strict;
	use warnings;
	use URI::Escape;

drdrang / Open URLs in Default Browser

Created August 4, 2010 13:11

	#!/usr/bin/env perl

	# Description: http://daringfireball.net/2010/08/open_urls_in_safari_tabs
	# License: See below.
	# http://gist.github.com/507356

	use strict;
	use warnings;
	use URI::Escape;

drdrang / URL escaping in AppleScript & Python

Created February 12, 2009 17:33

	-- A function for escaping URLs and skeleton code for a test.

	on URLescape(myURL)
	set myURL to quoted form of myURL
	set myURL to text from character 2 to -2 of myURL
	set cmd to "
	from urllib import quote
	print quote(\"" & myURL & "\", \"/:\")
	"
	--return cmd

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