Derek Ellis porkcharsui

Imagine this: it's Sunday afternoon at 1pm, and you want to watch some live content. But you don't have a TV subscription. So you do a little Googling, and eventually you find yourself on a sketchy website where you can watch the content you're looking for. But while the website has a video player, it's surrounded by advertisements, and probably a cryptominer too. You don't want this website eating your CPU for 2 hours while you're watching your favorite Sunday afternoon content.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could watch that video in VLC instead? Then you can close the sketchy website and still watch your content. It's like having your cake and taking a bite of it too!

Here's how you do it:

Capture the m3u8 request in dev tools. Open the site (or just the iframe, if possible) in DevTools and click "play." Search the network tab for m3u8 and grab the first request.
Run VLC with command line flags to set the User Agent and Referrer. From the request body, you need to copy the requested URL,

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

10.7 (Lion)

https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

10.8 (Mountain Lion)

10.9 (Mavericks)

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

In the below keyboard shortcuts, I use the capital letters for reading clarity but this does not imply shift, if shift is needed, I will say shift. So ⌘ + D does not mean hold shift. ⌘ + Shift + D does of course.

Tabs and Windows

Function	Shortcut
New Tab	`⌘` + `T`
Close Tab or Window	`⌘` + `W` (same as many mac apps)
Go to Tab	`⌘` + `Number Key` (ie: `⌘2` is 2nd tab)
Go to Split Pane by Direction	`⌘` + `Option` + `Arrow Key`

	// turnAmp controls the mPower Mini unit in Barloga, which
	// powers the rainbow Google Chord AMP hooked up to the speakers.
	func turnAmp(on bool) bool {
	c, err := ssh.Dial("tcp", "10.0.0.nnnn:22", &ssh.ClientConfig{
	HostKeyCallback: ssh.InsecureIgnoreHostKey(),
	Config: ssh.Config{
	Ciphers: []string{"aes128-cbc"},
	},
	User: "ubnt",
	Auth: []ssh.AuthMethod{ssh.Password("xxxxx")},

	CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION notify_trigger() RETURNS trigger AS $$
	DECLARE
	channel_name varchar DEFAULT (TG_TABLE_NAME \|\| '_changes');
	BEGIN
	IF TG_OP = 'INSERT' THEN
	PERFORM pg_notify(channel_name, '{"id": "' \|\| NEW.id \|\| '"}');
	RETURN NEW;
	END IF;
	IF TG_OP = 'DELETE' THEN
	PERFORM pg_notify(channel_name, '{"id": "' \|\| OLD.id \|\| '"}');

	// Copyright 2015 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
	//
	// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	// You may obtain a copy of the License at
	//
	// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	//
	// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
	// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

	#! /bin/bash

	mkdir -p ./backgrounds


	function get_google_device_art {
	local device=$1
	# Get the Google Device backgrounds
	curl "https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/device-art-resources/$1/port_back.png" > "./backgrounds/$1_port_back.png"
	curl "https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/device-art-resources/$1/port_fore.png" > "./backgrounds/$1_port_fore.png"