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@wkjagt
wkjagt / audio-book-reader.md
Last active April 12, 2024 14:18
How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

#How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

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Last year, when visiting my family back home in Holland, I also stopped by my grand-parents. My grand-father, now 93 years old, had always been a very active man. However, during the presceding couple of months, he'd gone almost completely blind and now spent his days sitting in a chair. Trying to think of something for him to do, I suggested he try out audio books. After finally convincing him -- he said audio books were for sad old people -- that listening to a well performed recording is actually a wonderful experience, I realized the problem of this idea.

####The problem with audio devices and the newly blind. After my first impulse to jump up and go buy him an

@nicokoch
nicokoch / reddit_dl.py
Last active August 29, 2015 14:03
Command line script to download images from reddit image-posts
#!/usr/bin/env python2
import os
import getpass
import urllib2
from StringIO import StringIO
import time
import datetime
import argparse
import praw
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
@ssudharsan
ssudharsan / gist:e5941195f79074e46f3c
Last active June 29, 2017 20:23
Running chef manually in a opsworks instance
# put the cookbook path in solo.rb file.
echo 'cookbook_path ["/opt/aws/opsworks/current/site-cookbooks"]' > solo.rb
# create json file incase if you want use the attributes from opsworks.
opsworks-agent-cli get_json > attributes.json
#run chef-solo
/opt/aws/opsworks/current/bin/chef-solo -c solo.rb -o cookbook_name::default -j attributes.json
@molaschi
molaschi / stash_slack_integration.md
Created June 4, 2014 17:10
Integrate Stash with Slack using webhooks

This is a short article on how we integrate stash and slack in openmind

First of all i assume you have:

  • a working stash installation
  • a repository you to notify slack on pushes
  • stash user with administration priviledges
  • full access to the server (linux) where stash is installed on
  • a team configured on slack
  • slack user with administration priviledges
@ibussieres
ibussieres / upgrade_pg.sh
Last active May 26, 2021 04:29
Upgrade PostgreSQL 9.1 to 9.3 on Ubuntu 12.04
echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ precise-pgdg main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3 postgresql-server-dev-9.3 postgresql-contrib-9.3 -y
sudo su - postgres -c "psql template1 -p 5433 -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS hstore;'"
sudo su - postgres -c "psql template1 -p 5433 -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS \"uuid-ossp\";'"
sudo su - postgres -c "service postgresql stop"
sudo su - postgres -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_upgrade -b /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin -B /usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/ -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/ -O "-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf" -o "-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf"'
@pkuczynski
pkuczynski / LICENSE
Last active March 14, 2025 14:12
Read YAML file from Bash script
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2014 Piotr Kuczynski
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWAR
@danriti
danriti / hipchat-v2.sh
Last active February 25, 2025 11:53
HipChat API v2 - Send a message to a room using cURL
#!/bin/bash
# Set the ROOM_ID & AUTH_TOKEN variables below.
# Further instructions at https://www.hipchat.com/docs/apiv2/auth
ROOM_ID=XXX
AUTH_TOKEN=XXX
MESSAGE="Hello world!"
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
@cspanring
cspanring / pip-install-gdal.md
Last active April 10, 2025 18:08
Installing GDAL in a Python virtual environment

Installing GDAL in a Python virtual environment

Get gdal development libraries:

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

Create and activate a virtual environment:

@nicerobot
nicerobot / README.md
Last active March 22, 2024 10:24
GNUStep

Objective-C on Linux

Just run:

curl -ks https://gist.github.com/nicerobot/5652802/raw/install.sh | bash -
@glenrobertson
glenrobertson / geojson_serializer.py
Created August 20, 2012 22:43
GeoJSON serializer for Geodjango
"""
Modified from: https://gist.github.com/967274
CHANGES:
* Serialize pk in feature.id and remove from feature.properties
* Added default date format and time format for encoder
* Allow geometryfield option, which doesn't have to be a field, e.g. a @property
USAGE: