Kristian Freeman kristianfreeman

A simple TextExpander snippet for pasting a nice-looking version of your "Now Playing" from iTunes. Uses Applescript — if you have a different music player (Spotify, for example), it probably has similar Applescript support.

For example: ♫ "My Favourite Things" - John Coltrane (The Very Best of John Coltrane, 2000)

set the_string to ""

tell application "iTunes"
   if player state is playing then
      set the_string to "\"" & name of current track & "\""

if artist of current track is not "" then

Safari - Yup. I like Chrome, but I don't like Google. Lesser of two evils here, people.

Dropbox — all my documents are saved right into Dropbox. Nothing else. The retention length is long enough that I've literally never had a problem losing a file.

NValt - all my thoughts go here. Anything of any sort of length. My library card number? Hi NValt. My 10 page essay about Psychology? Hello NValt. All synced through Dropbox.

Transmission - things are acquired here. Don't ask questions.

Hazel - I have some complicated recipes being filtered through Hazel for keeping my Downloads folder relatively clean, as well as meticulously organizing my media collection for access from my Apple TV and other iOS devices.

The Apple TV has some nice pictures for screensavers, but there's only about ~20 on average for each screensaver set. Luckily, with a jailbroken Apple TV, we can replace them pretty easily.

The screensaver images are located at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleTV.framework/Default[Album]Photos. I like SFTP'ing in with Cyberduck.

There are multiple screensaver sets — if you have a set you like the least (maybe "FlowerPhotos"?), replace those.

The files are in a pretty basic format:

01.jpg
02.jpg

Trying to regex in ruby using this: /UTC\s.\d{4}/

This picks up both

UTC +0000 UTC -0800

The codebase I'm working with uses: /UTC\s\-?\d{4}/

	require 'json'
	require 'date'

	json = File.read('appnet.json')

	parsed = JSON.parse(json)

	f = File.new("dayoneappdotnet.txt", "a")

	# requires "appnet.json" (exported from ADN) in the same folder

	require 'json'
	require 'date'

	json = File.read('appnet.json')

	parsed = JSON.parse(json)

	f = File.new("appdotnet.txt", "a")

	#!/usr/bin/ruby

	# Fix for Slogger and Ruby 1.9
	#
	# require 'ftools'
	#

	require 'fileutils'

	curloc = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__))

	# Disable wifi

	rm -rf /Volumes/Kindle/system/.assets
	echo "Disable WiFi on your Kindle - it will download new ads if you don't."
	echo "If you want a more thorough (permanent) method of removing ads, see Yifan Lu's work."

	/* create tables to store itunes music library data for quick access
	- rkumar 2010 July
	*/
	drop table tracks;
	create table tracks (
	album_artist VARCHAR(50),
	album_rating_computed INTEGER,
	album_rating VARCHAR(50),
	album VARCHAR(50),
	all_items VARCHAR(50),

	html {
	zoom: 1.5;
	}