Nathan Friedly nfriedly

Chirp AudioBook Download Script

⚠️ Not currently working. Chirp changed something that broke this script.

This script eases the process of downloading the audio files from Chirp Audiobooks. It uses the browsers console to generate a list of URLs, and then provides a list of curl or wget commands to download them.

Tested with Firefox + Terminal on MacOS, and Firefox + PowerShell on Windows 10.

How much are verizon "smart rewards" points worth?

TLDR: Each point is worth about 0.012¢ - 0.109¢ ($0.00012 - $0.00109) depending on what you want and how many you have. The more you have, the more they're worth, but what you get also makes a big difference.

I just noticed that verizon has a rewards program, and so I spent a few minutes trying to work out approximately how much my accrued 74,710 points were worth. There are a few different ways to spend the points, but the gift card auctions seemed like one of the most straightforward ways of getting a real-world value. Helpfully, verizon will show you all past auctions on a single (huge) page, and they even include a copy of jQuery for easy data scraping!

Here's a quick one-liner that you can paste into the console to reduce the page to a single chunk of JSON (

	// source/memory-store.ts
	var MemoryStore = class {
	/**
	* Create a new MemoryStore with an optional custom poolSize
	*
	* Note that the windowMS option is passed to init() by express-rate-limit
	*
	* @param [options]
	* @param [options.poolSize] - Maximum number of unused objects to keep around. Increase to reduce garbage collection.
	*/

	function getData(callback) {
	setTimeout(() => callback("hi"), 10);
	}

	function render(promiseData) {
	promiseData.then(data => console.log("data"));
	}

	// wrapper around getData() to make it return a promise
	function getDataPromise() {

	a = { note: "I'm global" };

	function foo(b) {
	// b is scoped to this function, but currently points to the same object as a
	b === a; // => true

	b = { note: "I'm not global" };
	// now b points to a new object
	b !== a; // => true
	}

	<?php
	/*
	Plugin Name: DsgnWrks Instagram Importer Hooks
	Plugin URI: http://dsgnwrks.pro/plugins/dsgnwrks-instagram-importer
	Description: Improvements to the Instagram Importer
	Author URI: http://www.nfriedly.com
	Author: nfriedly
	Version: 0.0.0
	*/

	'use strict';

	const SpeechToTextV1 = require('watson-developer-cloud/speech-to-text/v1');
	require('dotenv').config({silent: true}); // optional, loads credentials from a .env file
	const fs = require('fs');

	const speech_to_text = new SpeechToTextV1({
	// defaults to env properties if these are unset
	// username: 'INSERT YOUR USERNAME FOR THE SERVICE HERE',
	// password: 'INSERT YOUR PASSWORD FOR THE SERVICE HERE'

	// Note: The official .net SDK is in progress. It doesn't support streaming Speech to Text at the time of writing,
	// but it will soon. Please check it out before using this code.
	//
	// https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/dotnet-standard-sdk

	using System;
	using System.Net.WebSockets;
	using System.Net;
	using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;
	using System.Threading;

	var express = require('express');
	var app = express(),
	var spark = require('spark');
	var _ = require('lodash');

	require('dotenv').load(); // reads particle username and password from a file named .env that you can .gitignore

	var deviceName = "InternetButton"; // set this to the name of your device

	// Login and retrive the device

	-- see https://developer.ibm.com/recipes/tutorials/connect-espressif-esp8266-to-ibm-iot-foundation/ for more information

	orgID = "quickstart" -- IoT Foundation organization ID replace this with your own after creating an IoT service in bluemix
	broker = "quickstart.messaging.internetofthings.ibmcloud.com" -- IP or hostname of Quickstart IoTF service
	mqttPort = 1883 -- MQTT port (default 1883)
	userID = "" -- optional. Set to "use-token-auth" for token auth
	userPWD = "" -- optional. Put token here for token auth
	macID= wifi.sta.getmac():gsub('-','') -- set this manually if needed. Just hex digits, no collons/spaces/dashes/etc.
	clientID = "d:quickstart:esp8266:"..macID -- Device ID
	count = 0 -- Test number of mqtt_do cycles