Tomasz Jackowiak tjackowiak

During filming of off-road piano improvisations in New Zealand a Phantom 4 drone crashed in the flight, the last video is corrupted. Here's how we fixed it:

DJI_0065.mov - corrupt
DJI_0065.mov - OK

Let's compare the metadata:

$ ffmpeg -i DJI_0065.mov
[...]

Migrating to OS X Mavericks breaks the ngrep utility. Doing:

sudo ngrep -d lo0 -q -W byline port 8080

stopped working where the process exits immediately. I didn't dig into the ngrep code, but was able to find a simple workaround by doing

sudo ngrep -q -W byline -d lo0 '' 'port 8080'

You can call that a lazy hack, but it work!

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

	#!/bin/bash

	# Install Quake 3: Arena on a mac

	# Copyright (c) 2016 simonewebdesign
	# 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,

	####################################
	# BASIC REQUIREMENTS
	# http://graphite.wikidot.com/installation
	# http://geek.michaelgrace.org/2011/09/how-to-install-graphite-on-ubuntu/
	# Last tested & updated 10/13/2011
	####################################

	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get upgrade

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