This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.
Highly recommended things!
This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.
A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★
This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.
The script is here:
#!/bin/bash
convert $1 -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 $2
Find it here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.
The script is here:
#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"
Want to grab a copy of your favorite website, using wget in the command line, and saving it in WARC format? Then this is the gist for you. Read on!
First, copy the following lines into a textfile, and edit them as needed. Then paste them into your command line and hit enter:
export USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27"
export DOMAIN_NAME_TO_SAVE="www.example.com"
export SPECIFIC_HOSTNAMES_TO_INCLUDE="example1.com,example2.com,images.example2.com"
export FILES_AND_PATHS_TO_EXCLUDE="/path/to/ignore"
export WARC_NAME="example.com-20130810-panicgrab"
| Tricks to add encrypted private SSH key to .travis.yml file | |
| To encrypt the private SSH key into the "-secure: xxxxx....." lines to place in the .travis.yml file, generate a deploy key then run: (to see what the encrypted data looks like, see an example here: https://github.com/veewee-community/veewee-push/blob/486102e6f508214b04414074c921475e5943f682/.travis.yml#L21 | |
| base64 --wrap=0 ~/.ssh/id_rsa > ~/.ssh/id_rsa_base64 | |
| ENCRYPTION_FILTER="echo \$(echo \"-\")\$(travis encrypt veewee-community/veewee-push \"\$FILE='\`cat $FILE\`'\" | grep secure:)" | |
| split --bytes=100 --numeric-suffixes --suffix-length=2 --filter="$ENCRYPTION_FILTER" ~/.ssh/id_rsa_base64 id_rsa_ | |
| #!/usr/bin/env runhaskell | |
| {- | |
| Print monthly average cashflow by account. | |
| $ average-cashflow.hs YEAR [JOURNALFILE] | |
| -} | |
| module Main where |
| \documentclass[10pt,$if(lang)$$lang$,$endif$]{article} | |
| \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} | |
| \usepackage{lmodern} | |
| \usepackage{amssymb,amsmath} | |
| \usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex} | |
| \usepackage{fixltx2e} % provides \textsubscript | |
| % use microtype if available | |
| \IfFileExists{microtype.sty}{\usepackage{microtype}}{} | |
| \ifnum 0\ifxetex 1\fi\ifluatex 1\fi=0 % if pdftex | |
| \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} |
| <div class="topic"> | |
| topics | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>this is a long subtopic and conetent</li> | |
| <li>topic2</li> | |
| <li>topic3</li> | |
| <li>topic4</li> | |
| <li>topic5</li> | |
| <li>topic6 it's also very long</li> | |
| <li>topic7</li> |