Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

View peterwwillis's full-sized avatar

peterwwillis

View GitHub Profile
@ssp
ssp / turn off spindumps
Created March 7, 2010 15:35
Turn off spindump in MacOS X. This can improve the performance of the whole system in some situations.
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.spindump.plist
@btoone
btoone / curl.md
Last active March 13, 2026 03:04
A curl tutorial using GitHub's API

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin
@cloudsben
cloudsben / md-menu.html
Last active June 14, 2023 07:46
markdown menu
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://yandex.st/highlightjs/6.2/styles/googlecode.min.css">
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://yandex.st/highlightjs/6.2/highlight.min.js"></script>
<script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("h2,h3,h4,h5,h6").each(function(i,item){
var tag = $(item).get(0).localName;
@joyrexus
joyrexus / README.md
Last active September 29, 2025 05:43
Perl one-liners

Hi:

perl -e 'print "hello world!\n"'

A simple filter:

perl -ne 'print if /REGEX/'

Filter out blank lines (in place):

@tschieggm
tschieggm / flask_server.py
Created November 22, 2013 18:51
Stackdriver webhook server example
import string
import sys
import logging
import json
from flask import Flask
from flask import Response, request
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
logger.info("Stackdriver webhook-sample starting up on %s" % (string.replace(sys.version, '\n', ' ')))
@plugnburn
plugnburn / README.md
Last active December 3, 2025 21:04
Statix - the simplest static website generator in bash

Statix - the simplest static website generator in Bash

Statix is a stand-alone Bash script aimed at generating full-featured, routable static websites from reusable HTML snippets. It features the most basic templating engine ever possible but allows to organize your content in a SEO-friendly way. All Statix-based websites contain these parts:

  • Templates: a directory where all HTML templates are stored
  • Route configuration: a file that maps each publicly accessible template to a SEO-friendly URL
  • Assets: a directory with optional files copied to the output website directory with no processing.

This script is also lightweight. Aside from some standard file management commands such as cp, mkdir and rm, the only serious dependency for Statix is GNU Grep compiled with PCRE support (i.e. the version that supports -P flag, included in most Linux distributions).

# 10_basic.py
# 15_make_soup.py
# 20_search.py
# 25_navigation.py
# 30_edit.py
# 40_encoding.py
# 50_parse_only_part.py
@fulldecent
fulldecent / travis-local.md
Created November 29, 2017 02:33
Run Travis build locally

travis-local.md

Preconditions:

  1. POSIX or Windows system
  2. Install Docker
  3. A GitHub repo that already builds on Travis

Postcondition:

sysadminctl is a tool Apple introduced in 10.10 for working with system user accounts. In 10.13,
sysadminctl is Apple's recommended tool for working with user accounts in the CLI, replacing functionality
that has long been provided by dscl and adds new features available only in 10.13.
sysadminctl can be used to change user passwords, create new users (including automatically provisioning
the user home folder) or check the status of a new-to-10.13 security feature named SecureToken.
SecureToken is a user attribute like password type or user home location. SecureToken is not publicly
documented by Apple so it is not possible to provide a full technical description, but in practice one
needs only to know if a user has SecureToken or not. Having SecureToken set signifies that a user can
unlock a FileVault-encrypted volume. Without the SecureToken bit on a user account, that user will not
@scrapehero
scrapehero / fandango.py
Created February 12, 2018 07:46
Python 3 Code for scraping movie details from fandango.com
from lxml import html, etree
import datetime
import requests
import re
import os
import sys
import unicodecsv as csv
import argparse
import json
# from exceptions import ValueError