Jonathan Hult jhult

Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

Most VPN Services are Terrible

Short version: I strongly do not recommend using any of these providers. You are, of course, free to use whatever you like. My TL;DR advice: Roll your own and use Algo or Streisand. For messaging & voice, use Signal. For increased anonymity, use Tor for desktop (though recognize that doing so may actually put you at greater risk), and Onion Browser for mobile.

This mini-rant came on the heels of an interesting twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/591074055018582016

Hacking the SamKnows Whitebox

The SamKnows Whitebox is a free router (TP-Link TL-WDR3600) provided by SamKnows to gather internet speed statistics. Ok that's great, but any person with a small amount of hacker's spirit will want to hack it to install some custom firmware to take advantage of the two gigantic antennas on the back, the USB ports and everything else.

Step 1 : Debug mode

Root access can be obtained via a "debug mode" on the router giving you a direct root shell via telnet, amazingly simple.

Disconnect the Whitebox from the internet.
Connect your computer directly to the Whitebox via Ethernet to one of the four ethernet ports on the Whitebox.
Configure your computer's IP settings to "Manual" setting the computer's IP address to 192.168.1.2, the Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0 and the Gateway to 192.168.1.1.
Turn off the Whitebox.

	// Usage:
	// Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread
	// then use as follows:
	//
	// query(term \| [term, term, ...], term \| [term, term, ...], ...)
	//
	// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and"
	//
	// Term is of the format:
	// ((-)text/RegExp) ( '-' means negation )

	package com.collokia.webapp.routes;


	import io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpHeaders;
	import io.vertx.core.net.SocketAddress;
	import io.vertx.ext.web.RoutingContext;
	import io.vertx.ext.web.Session;
	import sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.NotImplementedException;

	import javax.servlet.*;

	(function() {
	function createNode(text) {
	var node = document.createElement('pre');
	node.style.width = '1px';
	node.style.height = '1px';
	node.style.position = 'fixed';
	node.style.top = '5px';
	node.textContent = text;
	return node;
	}

	// Simple JS snippet to bulk unwatch (stop watching, un-watch) issues in JIRA.
	// Written and tested for JIRA 5.2, but should work for all 5+ versions.

	// WHAT IT DOES:
	// 1. Gets list of issues you watch using JQL search via REST API. You can modify JQL per your needs.
	// 2. For each issue found, triggers REST API call to unwatch this issue for current user.

	// HOWTO:
	// 1. Go to JIRA in your browser, log in.
	// 2. Open your browser JavaScript console.

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Auto Check-In to Southwest Flights
	// @namespace http://www.ryanizzo.com/southwest-auto-check-in/
	// @version 1.8
	// @author Nicholas Buroojy (http://userscripts.org/users/83813)
	// @contributor Ryan Izzo (http://www.ryanizzo.com)
	// @contributor JR Hehnly (http://www.okstorms.com @stormchasing)
	// @contributor Trevor McClellan (github.com/trevormcclellan)
	// @description Automatically check in to Southwest Airline flights at the appropriate time.
	// @include https://www.southwest.com/air/check-in/index.html*