Noah Petherbridge kirsle

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Motivational Speech Alarm Clock

This is the code I used to make an alarm clock out of a Raspberry Pi (model 1 B+, 512MB RAM) that plays motivational speeches at 6:30 in the morning to get my ass out of bed.

At first I was using a CLI YouTube client, but it would hang after a while due to not running on an interactive console (being launched by crond), and the audio support on Pi's have always been somewhat flaky.

I ended up using youtube-dl to pre-download a playlist and using omxplayer for its hardware-accelerated decoding support. Works pretty well, except omxplayer has no support for things like "playlists" or "shuffling" so I needed

This describes my setup for using DigitalOcean Volumes (disk images attached to my VPS) for off-site backups and keeping them encrypted-at-rest when I'm not actively writing or reading to the disk image.

Basically it consists of:

A DigitalOcean virtual private server.
An extra Volume attached to the VPS (100GB or so), this presents itself as a block storage device in Linux.
LUKS encrypted partition on the Volume.

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	# Problem: sending a binary download in ExpressJS.
	#
	# I was trying to proxy download a binary file from S3 and serve it to the user with a different name.
	# Using the `request` module didn't work; text files came back fine but binary files would be corrupted
	# in strange ways (see attached diff).
	#
	# I ended up using the built-in `https` module and doing it the hard way.
	#
	# My theory: the request module expects to only work with text and was performing some UTF-8 coercion

	# minimal example of linking RiveScript to Twilio (untested)
	from flask import Flask, request, redirect
	from rivescript import RiveScript
	import twilio.twiml

	app = Flask(__name__)

	bot = RiveScript()
	bot.load_directory("brain")
	bot.sort_replies()

	# Function that prints the branch name.
	git_branch() {
	branch=`git branch 2> /dev/null \| sed -e '/^[^]/d' \| perl -pe 's/^\\s+//g'`
	if [ "$branch" != '' ]; then
	echo -n " ($branch)"
	fi
	}

	# Integrate it into your $PS1 prompt.
	# Would look like: [user@localhost myapp (master)]$

	/home//logs/.log {
	daily
	missingok
	rotate 14
	size 50M
	compress
	delaycompress
	notifempty
	create 0640 www-data adm
	sharedscripts