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Google/Blogger Image URL Parameters

This is an effort to document what is known about Google's (Blogger's/Blogspot's) image URL parameters. Some of these options were taken from existing first or third party documentation (see the links at the end of this document), but the majority is based off my own investigations.

Where to use them?

On Blogger's image URL's: 2.bp.blogspot.com/-OF7u67HQE1M/VHc8S8qJTDI/AAAAAAAACxI/UD-11c63diQ/s1600/005.png
On just about any googleusercontent image URL: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Jvmz11cLrvNIHG_LWjVO9B-UV2IN4Cfk1pycbhWZl6IriMgCAGCOFuBRtoHaiZ6xeVGqCugZcCql=w176-h176-n-o

Replace the bolded parts with the parameters.

If you're using a high-end bluetooth headset on your Macbook Pro it's likely your mac is using an audio codec which favors battery efficiency over high quality. This results in a drastic degradation of sound, the SBC codec is the likely culprit, read more about it here.

Find out what codec you're using

Play a song on your headphones
Option (⌥) click the Bluetooth button at the top of your screen
If you're using AAC or aptX, you can stop here—those are the highest quality codecs.

Change your codec to AAC or aptX

Taken from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7411851/12158779

In normal mode:

a: append

b: beginning (of current or previous word)

c: change

The PATH is an important concept when working on the command line. It's a list of directories that tell your operating system where to look for programs, so that you can just write script instead of /home/me/bin/script or C:\Users\Me\bin\script. But different operating systems have different ways to add a new directory to it:

Windows

The first step depends which version of Windows you're using:

If you're using Windows 8 or 10, press the Windows key, then search for and

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	require 'slack-ruby-client' # first, make sure you do: gem install slack-ruby-client
	require 'date'

	# Add your Slack API token here
	token = [YOUR TOKEN HERE]

	Slack.configure do \|config\|
	config.token = token
	end

	// List of language tags according to RFC 5646.
	// See <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646> for info on how to parse
	// these language tags. Some duplicates have been removed.
	var RFC5646_LANGUAGE_TAGS = {
	'af': 'Afrikaans',
	'af-ZA': 'Afrikaans (South Africa)',
	'ar': 'Arabic',
	'ar-AE': 'Arabic (U.A.E.)',
	'ar-BH': 'Arabic (Bahrain)',
	'ar-DZ': 'Arabic (Algeria)',

	var express = require('express');
	var cookieParser = require('cookie-parser');
	var session = require('express-session');
	var flash = require('express-flash');
	var handlebars = require('express-handlebars')

	var app = express();
	var sessionStore = new session.MemoryStore;

	// View Engines

	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
	#
	# Description: This file holds all my BASH configurations and aliases
	#
	# Sections:
	# 1. Environment Configuration
	# 2. Make Terminal Better (remapping defaults and adding functionality)
	# 3. File and Folder Management
	# 4. Searching
	# 5. Process Management


	git log --author="Linus Torvalds" --date=iso \| perl -nalE 'if (/^Date:\s+[\d-]{10}\s(\d{2})/) { say $1+0 }' \| sort \| uniq -c\|perl -MList::Util=max -nalE '$h{$F[1]} = $F[0]; }{ $m = max values %h; foreach (0..23) { $h{$_} = 0 if not exists $h{$_} } foreach (sort {$a <=> $b } keys %h) { say sprintf "%02d - %4d %s", $_, $h{$_}, ""x ($h{$_} / $m 50); }'