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veltman / gist:4519251

Last active December 11, 2015 00:49

Individual events

	[
	{
	"beat": "local",
	"event": "weather",
	"description": "Boston's current temperature of 51° F is higher than this day's previous record of 49° F set on January 12, 1970.",
	"url": "http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/weather-forecast\/US\/MA\/Boston.html",
	"importance": 1,
	"timestamp": "2013-01-12T18:37:06-05:00"
	},
	{

veltman / gist:4519311

Last active December 11, 2015 00:49

	{
	"local": {
	"beat": "local",
	"name": "Local",
	"description": "Local news for Boston.",
	"icon": "local.png",
	"triggers": [
	{
	"name": "hotspot",
	"description": "Local restaurants and shops receiving a sudden increase of attention.",

veltman / Printable Markdown

Last active December 15, 2023 10:54

Bookmarklet to create a printable version of a Markdown file on GitHub. Create a bookmark in your toolbar with this code as the URL, then click the bookmark while viewing a Markdown document (like a README) on GitHub to strip away the rest of the page for a clean, printable version. Or, if what I just said sounded scary, visit this page: http://…

javascript:(function(){ document.body.innerHTML = document.getElementById("readme").getElementsByTagName("article")[0].outerHTML; })();

veltman / gist:5952642

Created July 8, 2013 21:25

Changing the stroke-linecap of a polyline in leaflet

	testPolyline = new L.Polyline(
	[[34.03900467904445,-118.55810165405272],
	[34.13766755862196,-118.50643157958984],
	[34.15187463170986,-118.36292266845702],
	[34.168635904722734,-118.3292770385742],
	[34.16196020316907,-118.25923919677734]]);

	testPolyline.addTo(map);

	//Left-click makes it flat

veltman / gist:6186441

Last active December 20, 2015 19:49

Bookmarklet, when executed on a google search results page it will cycle through everything in search_terms[] and record the suggestions to a big JSON object. After it cycles through all the terms, it will replace the document HTML with the stringified JSON. Minify it before using it.

	(function(){

	//get jQuery
	if (window.jQuery === undefined) {
	var done = false;
	var script = document.createElement("script");
	script.src = "http:////ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js";
	script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = function(){
	if (!done && (!this.readyState \|\| this.readyState == "loaded" \|\| this.readyState == "complete")) {
	done = true;

veltman / gist:6369472

Created August 28, 2013 18:25

	-Step 1: basic HTML skeleton for a full-screen map
	-Step 2: initialize a map
	-Step 3: add a tile layer
	-Step 4: Add a marker
	-Step 5: Add a line
	-Step 6: Add a polygon
	-Step 7: Styling: add a polygon with different styling
	-Step 8: Click/hover
	-On click, re-center map
	-On hover, change styling of polygon

veltman / gist:6475297

Created September 7, 2013 12:47

JavaScript function for stitching two arrays with overlapping ends into a single array (e.g. [1,2,3] and [3,4,5] into [1,2,3,4,5]).

	function stitch(s1,s2) {
	var l1 = s1.length;
	var l2 = s2.length;


	if (!l1) return s2;
	if (!l2) return s1;

	if (s2[0] == s1[l1-1]) return s1.concat(s2.slice(1));
	if (s1[0] == s2[l2-1]) return s2.concat(s1.slice(1));

veltman / gist:6681784

Created September 24, 2013 08:14

	repeat
	tell application "System Events" to start current screen saver
	delay 60
	tell application "System Events" to key code 59
	delay 1
	end repeat

veltman / gist:7029964

Created October 17, 2013 18:35

	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	import requests

	url = "http://www.google.com/"

	text = requests.get(url).text

	page = BeautifulSoup(text)

	for link in page.find_all("a"):

veltman / index.html

Last active January 1, 2018 19:42

For creating an approval matrix/magic quadrant viz in d3.

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<style>

	.grid {
	stroke-width: 0.5px;
	stroke: steelblue;
	fill: none;
	opacity: 0.5;
	}

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