| What I Worked On | |
| February 2021 | |
| Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories. My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters with strong feelings, which I imagined made them deep. | |
| The first programs I tried writing were on the IBM 1401 that our school district used for what was then called "data processing." This was in 9th grade, so I was 13 or 14. The school district's 1401 happened to be in the basement of our junior high school, and my friend Rich Draves and I got permission to use it. It was like a mini Bond villain's lair down there, with all these alien-looking machines — CPU, disk drives, printer, card reader — sitting up on a raised floor under bright fluorescent lights. | |
| The language we used was an early version of Fortran. You had to type programs on punch cards, then stack them in the card reader and press a |
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash -x | |
| export PATH="${PATH}:/opt/homebrew/bin" | |
| for f in "$@"; do | |
| ABSOLUTE_F=$(readlink -f "$f") | |
| # Check if the file is an image | |
| MIME_TYPE=$(file --mime-type -b "$ABSOLUTE_F") | |
| EXT="${ABSOLUTE_F##*.}" |
| ffmpeg -i demo.mov \ | |
| -vf "fps=5,scale=1280:-1:flags=lanczos,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" \ | |
| -y demo.mp4 |
| #!/bin/bash | |
| for profile in baseline main high; do | |
| for level in 30 31 32 40 41 42 50 51 52; do | |
| echo output-$profile-$level.mp4 | |
| ffmpeg -i high-res.mov \ | |
| -c:v h264_videotoolbox -profile:v $profile -level $level \ | |
| -c:a aac \ | |
| -y \ | |
| output-$profile-$level.mp4 |
| [authelia] | |
| enabled = true | |
| port = http,https,9091 | |
| filter = authelia | |
| logpath = /var/log/authelia/authelia.log | |
| maxretry = 3 | |
| bantime = 1d | |
| findtime = 1d | |
| chain = DOCKER-USER |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/ui | |
| previous=$(npm version | grep rating-ui | awk -F"'" '{ print $4 }') | |
| tickets=$(git log --oneline ./ | awk '{ print tolower($2) }' | sort | uniq | grep -i -E -o 'MX-[0-9]+' | wc | awk '{ print $1 }') | |
| patch=$(($tickets % 10)) | |
| minor=$(($tickets % 100)) | |
| minor=${minor:0:1} | |
| major=$(($tickets % 1000)) | |
| major=${major:0:1} |
| modelJson='' | |
| get_value() { | |
| val=$(echo $modelJson | grep "$1" | awk -F: ' { print $2 }' | sed 's/[,]//' | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]//') | |
| echo "${val//[^a-zA-Z0-9_ ]/}" | |
| } | |
| nighthawk() { | |
| modelJson=$(curl -sL http://192.168.1.1/api/model.json) | |
| rssi=$(get_value rssi) | |
| battChargeLevel=$(get_value battChargeLevel) |
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