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stuartlangridge / danmessages.py

Created March 9, 2017 21:33

Simple example of running a background thread to print things to output, a foreground thread to receive messages, and a queue to communicate

	# Import standard python modules.
	import sys
	import time
	import threading
	import os
	import queue

	# Import Adafruit IO MQTT client.
	from Adafruit_IO import MQTTClient

stuartlangridge / Wallpaperify

Created March 29, 2016 22:41

Simple Nautilus wallpaperify script, as per https://plus.google.com/u/0/+joeysneddon/posts/a3i2L9dyESp. (Save as $HOME/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/Wallpaperify.)

	#!/bin/bash

	file --brief --mime-type "$1" \| grep "^image/"

	if [ $? != 0 ]; then
	zenity --error --text="'$1' does not seem to be an image file."
	exit 1
	fi

	if ! hash convert 2>/dev/null; then

stuartlangridge / deredact.py

Created March 12, 2016 21:58

Deredact stuff in the "redact" font

	import sys
	# call as
	# python deredact.py "$(python redact.py hello world)"

	instr = " ".join(sys.argv[1:]).replace(".", "").replace(",", "")

	fp = open("/usr/share/dict/words")
	words = [x.lower() for x in fp.read().split("\n")]
	fp.close()

stuartlangridge / icloud-cal.php

Created January 26, 2016 22:49

PHP to fetch a calendar from iCloud with authentication and CalDAV

	<?php

	// get this data by logging into icloud.com on the calendars page and looking at the dev tools
	// as per https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnico-beuermann.de%2Fblogging%2Farchives%2F115-Zugriff-auf-iCloud-Kalender-mit-Thunderbird.html&edit-text=&act=url
	$account = array(
	'server' => '', // note, this will be p12 or something, not P0; see the server that iclod.com serves json from
	'icloudid' => '', // the "dsid"
	'appleid' => '', // your Apple ID; will be an email address
	'pass' => '', // password for your Apple ID
	'calid' => '' // the "pGuid"

stuartlangridge / gist:63c13d5525e8efd98ea2

Created July 15, 2015 09:16

Verifying I am +sil on my passcard. https://onename.com/sil

stuartlangridge / pelican-webmentions.py

Created November 29, 2014 17:24

Pelican plugin for webmentions. This will not work out of the box for you; it's too kryogenix.org-specific. But it may help.

	from pelican import signals
	import json, urllib, urlparse, datetime, html5lib, os, codecs

	LIVESITEURL = ""
	WM_CACHE_PATH = None
	WM_CACHE = {
	"domains": {},
	"pinged": {}
	}

stuartlangridge / gist:4d66733dde499a49203b

Created June 11, 2014 23:06

Multiple async tests against multiple objects with any JS test runner.

	"use strict";

	/global process, console /

	function Thingy() {}
	Thingy.prototype.returns5 = function(cb) { process.nextTick(function() { cb(null, 5); }); };
	Thingy.prototype.returns8 = function(cb) { process.nextTick(function() { cb(null, 8); }); };

	var thingy1 = new Thingy(),
	thingy2 = new Thingy(),

stuartlangridge / Dalekfile.json

Created January 28, 2014 11:42

Dalekfile.json showing how to make dalekjs start Chrome in incognito mode

	{
	"browsers": [{
	"chrome": {
	"chromeOptions": { "args": ["--incognito"] }
	}
	}]
	}

stuartlangridge / TypeFileOut.py

Created January 9, 2014 16:11

Sublime Text 2 Python plugin to "type" the file that's currently being edited, character by character, for screencasts.

	import sublime, sublime_plugin

	BLOCKLEN = 4

	class TypeFileOutCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
	def nextchar(self):
	if self.body:
	totype = []
	while 1:
	try:

stuartlangridge / gist:5799474

Created June 17, 2013 19:14

Initial cut of Ubuntu webapps script for Discourse. To be called in discourse/app/views/common/_discourse_javascript.html.erb, after Discourse.start().

	// ==UserScript==
	// @author Stuart Langridge <[email protected]>
	// ==/UserScript==

	if (external.getUnityObject) {
	window.Unity = external.getUnityObject(1.0);

	// use the Apple touch icon as icon
	var icnsize=0, icnurl;
	Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("link[rel='apple-touch-icon']")).forEach(function(icn) {

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