six lostfictions

A Somewhat Better Setup for Streaming from Linux

I couldn't find a great way to set up streaming to Discord or Twitch from Linux, so I wrote this.

Intro

The script included below, streaming.sh, is meant to be used in tandem with the PulseAudio Volume Control application (pavucontrol, which is available in repositories for most distributions that use Pulse but might not be installed by default). It adds two PulseAudio "sinks" (destinations) that you can

(work in progress! notes will be updated as generators are re-evaluated.)

A Tale of Three Generators

Static site generators are far from a solved problem. It's a deceptively simple proposition: grab some data -- say, blog posts written in Markdown files -- stick them in templates, and spit out a set of HTML files, ready to be served as-is on something like GitHub Pages, no complex server code needed. And indeed, there have been hundreds of takes on the idea, running the gamut of pretty much every programming and templating language imaginable.

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	import asyncio


	# boilerplate for asyncio
	async def run(cmd: str) -> str:
	proc = await asyncio.create_subprocess_shell(
	cmd,
	stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
	stderr=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Godot Docs TOC
	// @namespace lostfictions's useful little things
	// @match https://docs.godotengine.org/en/*
	// @grant GM.addStyle
	// @version 1.0
	// @author https://github.com/lostfictions
	// @description Add a table of contents to Godot's Read The Docs-based documentation pages
	// ==/UserScript==

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	set -euo pipefail

	BUS_NAME="org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Color"
	OBJECT_PATH="/org/gnome/SettingsDaemon/Color"

	TRUE="variant:boolean:true"
	FALSE="variant:boolean:false"

	set_disabled() {

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	import subprocess
	import argparse
	from datetime import datetime
	from urllib.parse import urlparse
	from typing import List, Union

	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
	description="yt-clip: clip videos (from youtube, files, or other websites) by timestamp with the help of yt-dlp and ffmpeg."
	)

	using UnityEngine;
	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using Debug = UnityEngine.Debug;
	using Object = UnityEngine.Object;

	using System.Linq;
	using System.IO;

	using UnityEditor;

	// why do this? clip-path accepts a `url` reference to an svg element, right?
	// the difference is that anything defined as a `basic-shape` can be animated:
	// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/clip-path

	const input = `121.151,20.761 170.165,55.885 200.872,3.816 231.145,55.884 280.592,20.762 286.854,80.687 346.526,68.666
	327.657,126.005 387.276,139.247 346.502,184 395.796,220.302 340.127,244.647 370.611,297.814 309.636,297.457 316.076,358.381
	260.303,333.3 241.622,391.529 200.655,345.979 160.121,391.53 141.008,333.302 85.666,358.381 91.673,297.456 31.131,297.813
	61.183,244.647 5.947,220.302 54.81,184 14.466,139.248 73.652,126.004 55.216,68.667 114.457,80.688 `

	const viewBoxScale = 4

	const randomInArray = arr => arr[Math.floor(Math.random() * arr.length)]
	const isVowel = char => /^[aeiou]$/i.test(char)

	const matcher = /\[([^\[\]]+)\]/g

	export default function trace({concepts, concept, maxCycles = 10, seen = {}, modifierList = defaultModifiers}) {
	const [resolvedConcept, ...modifierChunks] = concept.split('\|')
	const modifiers = modifierChunks
	.map(chunk => {
	const [modifierName, ...args] = chunk.split(' ')

	#!/usr/bin/env node

	const fs = require('fs')
	const path = require('path')
	const efs = require('child_process').execFileSync

	const vlcPath = path.resolve('C\:/Program\ Files/VideoLAN/VLC/vlc.exe')
	const getVlcArgs = (inputFile, outputFile) =>
	`"${inputFile}" :sout='#transcode{vcodec=theo,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=vorb,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:file{dst="${outputFile}"}' vlc://quit --intf dummy`