James Tomasino jamestomasino

Best UNIX Shell tools

These are a list of usages of shell commands I can't live without on UNIX-based systems.

Using Homebrew (yes, I am opinionated) you can install the following tools with the following packages:

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

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

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus

Updated: Just use qutebrowser (and disable javascript). The web is done for.

	/*!
	* Dynamically changing favicons with JavaScript
	* Works in all A-grade browsers except Safari and Internet Explorer
	* Demo: http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/dynamic-favicons
	*/

	// HTML5™, baby! http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/document-head
	document.head \|\| (document.head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]);

	function changeFavicon(src) {

	;SMBDIS.ASM - A COMPREHENSIVE SUPER MARIO BROS. DISASSEMBLY
	;by doppelganger ([email protected])

	;This file is provided for your own use as-is. It will require the character rom data
	;and an iNES file header to get it to work.

	;There are so many people I have to thank for this, that taking all the credit for
	;myself would be an unforgivable act of arrogance. Without their help this would
	;probably not be possible. So I thank all the peeps in the nesdev scene whose insight into
	;the 6502 and the NES helped me learn how it works (you guys know who you are, there's no

	Copyright (c) 2015 Matthias Esterl


	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	<?php

	// From http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/country_names_and_code_elements_txt.htm
	// Last update: 2013-02-14
	// Every word in country names begin with uppercase letters, except for prepositions and alike

	$countries = array(
	'AF' => "Afghanistan",
	'AX' => "Åland Islands",
	'AL' => "Albania",