jasonlong

celoyd

Himawari-8 animation tutorial

Here’s how to make animations like this one. It requires intermediate Unix command-line knowledge, to install some tools and to debug if they don’t work. You’ll need these utilities:

• curl (or you can translate to wget)
• convert and montage, part of ImageMagick
• ffmpeg, plus whatever codecs
• parallel, for iteration that’s nicer than shell for loops or xargs
• run everything in zsh for leading 0s in numerical ranges to work

CAFxX

📂 Persistent "pipes" in Linux

In a project I'm working on I ran into the requirement of having some sort of persistent FIFO buffer or pipe in Linux, i.e. something file-like that could accept writes from a process and persist it to disk until a second process reads (and acknowledges) it. The persistence should be both across process restarts as well as OS restarts.

AFAICT unfortunately in the Linux world such a primitive does not exist (named pipes/FIFOs do not persist

liscio

#!/bin/sh

# First, set the width/height DPI on the file
sips -s dpiWidth 144 -s dpiHeight 144 "$1"

# Fake that it is a screen capture (wat?)
xattr -wx com.apple.metadata:kMDItemIsScreenCapture "62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 09 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09" "$1"
xattr -wx com.apple.metadata:kMDItemScreenCaptureType "62 70 6C 69 73 74 30 30 59 73 65 6C 65 63 74 69 6F 6E 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 12" "$1"
xattr -wx com.apple.FinderInfo "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00" "$1"

javan

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :ensure_xhr

  private
    def ensure_xhr
      if request.get? && request.format && (request.format.js? || request.format.json?)
        head :forbidden unless request.xhr?
      end
    end
end

fredrikw

#!/usr/bin/python

# CLI program to control the mediakeys on OS X. Used to emulate the mediakey on a keyboard with no such keys.
# Easiest used in combination with a launcher/trigger software such as Quicksilver.
# Main part taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11045814/emulate-media-key-press-on-mac
# Glue to make it into cli program by Fredrik Wallner http://www.wallner.nu/fredrik/

import Quartz
import sys

stammy

I had a background image that I wanted to apply border-radius to-- which you can't do to a background image. masks to the rescue! I opted for a method that didn't require an image mask overlay.

radial gradient params: (x/y positioning, width/height, how sharp you want the edges to be, dont mess with last value)

-webkit-mask-box-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(19px 19px, 19px 19px, black 92%, transparent 100%)

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

emboss

require 'openssl'
require 'socket'

KEY = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new <<-_end_of_pem_
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIICXgIBAAKBgQDLwsSw1ECnPtT+PkOgHhcGA71nwC2/nL85VBGnRqDxOqjVh7Cx
aKPERYHsk4BPCkE3brtThPWc9kjHEQQ7uf9Y1rbCz0layNqHyywQEVLFmp1cpIt/
Q3geLv8ZD9pihowKJDyMDiN6ArYUmZczvW4976MU3+l54E6lF/JfFEU5hwIDAQAB
AoGBAKSl/MQarye1yOysqX6P8fDFQt68VvtXkNmlSiKOGuzyho0M+UVSFcs6k1L0
maDE25AMZUiGzuWHyaU55d7RXDgeskDMakD1v6ZejYtxJkSXbETOTLDwUWTn618T

peterc

# Simple, scrappy UDP DNS server in Ruby (with protocol annotations)
# By Peter Cooper
#
# MIT license
#
# * Not advised to use in your production environment! ;-)
# * Requires Ruby 1.9
# * Supports A and CNAME records
# * See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt for protocol guidance
# * All records get the same TTL