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@philandstuff
philandstuff / codemesh2015.org
Last active November 16, 2015 19:37
Code mesh 2015 notes

Kush, an introduction to schedulers

about me

  • I work for GDS
  • Cabinet Office
  • we started by building GOV.UK
    • replaced older sites like direct gov, business link
  • we’re not just fixing websites
    • we also build and run digital services
    • working with depts across the country
    • eg: register to vote
@Changaco
Changaco / btrfs-undelete
Last active May 4, 2025 06:42
btrfs-undelete
#!/bin/bash
# btrfs-undelete
# Copyright (C) 2013 Jörg Walter <[email protected]>
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
# the term of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.
if [ ! -b "$1" -o -z "$2" -o -z "$3" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 <dev> <file/dir> <dest>" 1>&2
echo
@postmodern
postmodern / rip_dvd
Last active September 16, 2024 00:09
Script to automate ripping DVDs using Handbrake-CLI and mkvmerge
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Author: postmodern
# Description:
# Rips a DVD to a H.264 MKV file, with chapters and tags. Ignores any
# bad blocks or sectors on the DVD.
# Dependencies:
# * gddrescue
# * handbrake-cli
# * mkvtoolnix
@tonymorris
tonymorris / fuck-you.md
Last active February 26, 2016 01:30
Ignorance has real-world practical effects.

I was just sitting in a doctor surgery 45 minutes ago with an orthopaedic spine surgeon, who is one of the few who has worked out how to use software to his advantage. We were measuring a deformity that the previous surgeon has created. After 20 minutes of drawing lines and measurements all over this DICOM image, the following happened

Access Violation at address 0xGOFUCKYOURSELF

…so now I have to go back in two weeks while he can restart a plan for a difficult corrective surgery.

@vrischmann
vrischmann / .credentials
Last active January 20, 2023 11:57
Running SBT with a Nexus proxy with authentication
realm=Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager
host=nexus.company.com
user=admin
password=admin123
@viktorklang
viktorklang / Future-retry.scala
Last active July 23, 2023 23:48
Asynchronous retry for Future in Scala
import scala.concurrent.duration._
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext
import scala.concurrent.Future
import akka.pattern.after
import akka.actor.Scheduler
/**
* Given an operation that produces a T, returns a Future containing the result of T, unless an exception is thrown,
* in which case the operation will be retried after _delay_ time, if there are more possible retries, which is configured through
* the _retries_ parameter. If the operation does not succeed and there is no retries left, the resulting Future will contain the last failure.
@lisamelton
lisamelton / encode.sh
Last active March 31, 2024 21:13
This is the shell script I use to drive HandBrakeCLI to re-encode video files in a format suitable for playback on Apple TV, Roku 3, iOS, OS X, etc.
#!/bin/bash
# encode.sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2013 Don Melton
#
# This version published on June 7, 2013.
#
# Re-encode video files in a format suitable for playback on Apple TV, Roku 3,
# iOS, OS X, etc.