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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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Enable mouse support

/mouse enable

Encrypted password in sec.conf

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A Simple, Base16 Friendly, Weechat Setup

Scripts

• Some must-have scripts

  /script install buffers.pl beep.pl urlserver.py highmon.pl

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Python zipapp web apps

What's a zipapp?

This concept is very much like .jar or .war archives in Java.

NOTE: The built .pyz zipapp can run on both Python 2 & 3 but you can only build .pyz zipapps with Python 3.5 or later.

Initial setup

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How to join Twitch IRC w/ WeeChat

WeeChat terminal IRC client

• https://weechat.org

gen token

1. acccess to "OAuth Password Generator"; semi-official service

• https://twitchapps.com/tmi/
• http://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1302780-twitch-irc

2. push "Connect to Twitch"

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based on https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/24g8r8/italics_in_terminal_vim_and_tmux/

• Check if italic font is supported:

$ echo -e "\e[3mitalic\e[23m"

• Also check:

$ infocmp $TERM | grep sitm
 sgr0=\E(B\E[m, sitm=\E[3m, smacs=\E(0, smam=\E[?7h,

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A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

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tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

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104.198.102.93
104.198.101.253
52.40.240.176
63.251.239.123
52.42.44.79
209.239.121.82
104.197.17.180
130.211.193.234
104.197.136.10
104.197.42.178

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This should make True Color (24-bit) and italics work in your tmux session and vim when using Alacritty (and should be compatible with any other terminal emulator, including Kitty).

Tested successfully in bash and zsh with latest packages from Arch Linux (with exception of neovim built from source):

• 2019-07-07
• 2021-08-07

Notes

1. Don't use &t_8f, &t_8b and t_Co in your vim config
2. Don't set $TERM in your zshrc, bashrc, etc. Configure this in your terminal (alacritty).