Omar Rizwan osnr

Always Already Programming

Everyone who interacts with computers has in important ways always already been programming them.

Every time you make a folder or rename a file on your computer, the actions you take through moving your mouse and clicking on buttons, translate into text-based commands or scripts which eventually translate into binary.

Why are the common conceptions of programmer and user so divorced from each other? The distinction between programmer and user is reinforced and maintained by a tech industry that benefits from a population rendered computationally passive. If we accept and adopt the role of less agency, we then make it harder for ourselves to come into more agency.

We've unpacked the "user" a little, now let's look at the "programmer." When a programmer is writing javascript, they are using prewritten, packaged functions and variables in order to carry out the actions they want their code to do. In this way, the programmer is also the user. Why is using pre-made scripts seen

On Linux

Installing mkisofs

apt-get install mkisofs

Editing ISO image

mkdir /tmp/custom_iso

A collection of information about accessing raw MultiTouch events on MacOS.

Compiled while building mtif (a MultiTouch interface for common lisp).

Useful URLS

Transitland Frequency Visualization

Accompanies blog post: Transit dimensions: Transitland Schedule API

The frequency.py script:

Fetches all trips on a given date, between a start time and end time, inside of a bounding box
Calculates the number of connections between every stop
Uses a colormap and line width to show more frequent service
Outputs a GeoJSON map as output.geojson

	//
	// MacOS Accessibility Notifications
	// Notice: this version doesn't take into account new apps after this code is executed
	// Created by Phi Hiep Nguyen and AI on 2024-10-08.
	//

	import Cocoa
	import Foundation

	// AppObserver: Monitors and reports application activation events on macOS

	#!/bin/bash
	echo "Running capturetabs..."
	markdown=""
	numtabs=0
	for DIR in mnt/tabs/by-title/*
	do
	((numtabs++))
	title=`cat $DIR/title.txt`
	url=`cat $DIR/url.txt`
	if ! grep -q "roamresearch.com" <<< $url

	// From https://stackoverflow.com/a/58985069/118631

	@available(macOS 10.15, *)
	func canRecordScreen() -> Bool {
	let runningApplication = NSRunningApplication.current
	let processIdentifier = runningApplication.processIdentifier

	guard let windows = CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo([.optionOnScreenOnly], kCGNullWindowID)
	as? [[String: AnyObject]] else
	{

	;;; package --- Fix permissions for Emacs.app on macOS Catalina
	;;; Author: Artem Loenko
	;;; Mail-To: <[email protected]>
	;;; Commentary:
	;;; Code:

	(defconst _default-emacs-app-plist-path "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Info.plist")
	(defconst _temp-buffer-name "fixing Emacs permissions")
	(defconst _temp-buffer (get-buffer-create _temp-buffer-name))
	(with-current-buffer _temp-buffer (erase-buffer))

	import Foundation

	class MyService: NSObject, MyServiceProtocol {
	func upperCaseString(_ string: String, withReply reply: @escaping (String) -> Void) {
	let response = string.uppercased()
	reply(response)
	}
	}

	/*
	* capturing from UVC cam
	* requires: libjpeg-dev
	* build: gcc -std=c99 capture.c -ljpeg -o capture
	*/

	#include <stdint.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <string.h>