Jeffrey Stanton jffry

If you are on OSX and have Chrome installed, you can use it to wrap apps so that they have their own app icon.

To quickly install it, download and run the script, or just open a terminal and run this command:

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jffry/239833b8f3598ebc6e03/raw/make-noisli-app.sh | bash

That will automatically install the app and run it, though subsequently it's like a normal OSX app and you don't need to run this script again.

Background

Recently the Late Show programmatically generated Happy Birthday videos for over 1000 different names, and uploaded them all to YouTube (for example, "Happy Birthday jeff").

I wanted a nice easy-to-search list of all the videos, so I cobbled together a little javascript in my browser window to do the trick.

Extraction

ng-conf tweeted that they had some easter eggs. YouTube annotations seemed like a good place to hide one, so I scraped the annotations from their videos.

First, can we programmatically get annotations? Yes! Googling around reveals URLs like https://www.youtube.com/annotations_invideo?features=1&legacy=1&video_id=QHulaj5ZxbI

Second, how to get a list of all their video IDs? Quick and dirty! I opened their channel's video list at https://www.youtube.com/user/ngconfvideos/videos and used my browser console to scrape out the video IDs:

	/*
	Shows the current Atlantic tropical weather outlook from the National Hurricane Center,
	which is a part of the US NOAA. Refreshes hourly to ensure the image is up to date
	(the actual forecast usually updates twice per day)

	Automatically sleeps between refreshes so this is extremely battery efficient.

	Written by Jeffrey Stanton; I release this code under the terms of CC0-1.0
	(https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0) in the hopes you will
	find something useful in here for your own cool projects!

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
	<title>puppy.jpg</title>
	<style>
	/* nothing to see here */
	img {
	width: 300px;

	;; Run me with:
	;; clojure -Sdeps '{:deps {org.jsoup/jsoup {:mvn/version "1.12.1"}}}' gen.clj

	(require '[clojure.string :as str])
	(import (java.time.format DateTimeFormatter)
	(java.time LocalDate LocalTime ZoneId ZonedDateTime)
	(java.util UUID)
	(org.jsoup Jsoup)
	(org.jsoup.nodes Document))

	[package]
	name = "advent-calendar"
	version = "0.1.0"
	authors = ["Jeffrey Stanton <[email protected]>"]
	edition = "2018"

	[dependencies]
	rand = "0.6"
	time = "0.1"

	(ns jffry.colors.ai)

	(defn rgb
	[r g b]
	(str "rgb(" r "," g "," b ")"))

	;first generation of neural net generated colors from
	;http://lewisandquark.tumblr.com/post/160776374467/new-paint-colors-invented-by-neural-network

	;first checkpoint - basic, valid RGB values

	#!/bin/bash
	#helper that gives the current unix time, in seconds
	function now() {
	date -u "+%s"
	}
	#helper that calculates elapsed ms
	START="$(now)"
	function elapsed() {
	NOW="$(now)"
	echo $((NOW-START))

	# controlling RPI GPIO pins
	# has to be run as root

	echo -ne 19 > /sys/class/gpio/export
	echo -ne out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio19/direction
	echo -ne 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio19/value
	echo -ne 0 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio19/value
	echo -ne 19 > /sys/class/gpio/unexport