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Font of the month: Sans Bullshit Sans
I realize that posting the Font of the Month on the very last day of the month is cutting it a bit fine. So this month’s font is a bit special. Sans Bullshit Sans, by PixelAmbacht hides bullshit marketing words in your text with a Comic Sans-styled censorship bar. Th …
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Pulley Logic Gates
What, you might wonder, is a logic gate and why, you might further wonder, should I care? Logic gates in their various forms make up a fair amount of the circuitry that enables modern computers to work. Like your phone or your computer. Logic gates work a bit like one of those truth tables you …
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Finding Twitter follower count with YQL instead of the Twitter API
Earlier today, a TwitRSS.me user, @pur_wie asked me if there was a way to get follower counts from Twitter.@ciderpunx Thanks for twitRSS.me. It works great in getting tweet texts.Is it possible to get the count,num of followers/followees?— Pur (@pur_wie) June 7, 2014Depending on your …
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Using mailp.in from Bash
I recently learned of a new web publishing tool called mailp.in, which lets you publish stories to a custom url by sending email to a particular email address. Quite a nifty idea.The service is a model of minimalist, yet highly functional design. The simplest thing that could possibly work, you …
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PiPhone: A smartphone made of a Raspberry Pi
A seriously cool idea this; making a smartphone out of a Raspberry Pi. A guy called Dave Hunt put together the PiPhone, using a 2.8 inch adafruit TFT touchscreen and a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module. The result is pretty sweet as you can see from the video.Dave did a PiPhone writeup on his sit …
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Quick tip: Using vimdiff with git
Vimdiff is an amazing tool to work with file differences and it particuarly suitable for use when examining differences between git revisions. There is a command built in to git that is called git-difftool. It allows you to use an external tool to look at your diffs this tip just shows how I like …
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Lunchtime hack: Google spellchecker on the commandline onliner
I was just talking to my colleague Pete about how useful Google’s Did you mean? feature is as a spell checker. It comes up with much better suggestions than other systems. So here is a quick lunchtime hack that uses the little-known Lynx browser -dump command and some Perl to make a comma …
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Allow mixed https/http content on Iceweasel/Firefox 23 and above
Since version 23, Firefox has started blocking mixed content — pieces of an HTML page that are delivered over an insecure, unencrypted connection when browsing an SSL-encrypted page. Now this is probably the right thing to do. Most of the time. And there is a subtle little shield thingum …
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Navigating your bash history. A quick reference.
One of the ways to make yourelf more productive and to save unnecessary typing in the bash shell is to get familiar with navigating your history. There are a number of ways to navigate your bash history beyond simply using the up arrow to get at your last command. This is a quick reference to some o …
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Solved: Hackers Keyboard keys invisible on Onda v972 with Android 4.2
tl;dr The Hackers Keyboard app doesn’t play well with the Onda v972 tablet running Android 4.2.2. I made an apk which allows you to scale the key labels bigger so that you can read them. Grab a copy of Hackers Keyboard with improved keyboard label scaling.Last night I upgraded my Onda v972 t …
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tweetsearch_to_rss.pl: Get twitter searches as an RSS feed with perl
Twitter recently got rid of the ability to get search results as an RSS as part of their API update of 11 June 2013.
I found those feeds rather useful, so I made a little screen scraper that reimplements the functionality without needing to auth against their API (it just pulls the re …
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bashtweet.sh - tweet from a terminal with cURL
This is a neat trick. A friend was looking for a convenient way to tweet (or send to statusnet) from Bash, this is a fairly straightforward way to do that.
There are a couple of bits you need before we play with the script. You’ll need cURL installed, many Unices do this by de …
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Post Entries From RSS and Atom Feeds to Diaspora with feed2diasp.pl
This is hosted on Gitorious now. I thought I would give gitorious a whirl anyhow, so you can find the latest version of feed2diasp over there.
I've just got myself set up on …
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Chandler Daily Agenda Script in perl
A little perl script to send you a daily agenda email from your chandler hub account. Discussed in depth on the page Getting Chandler Hub to send a daily agenda by email. …
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Import pegasus mail folders to cyrus
This utility was developed for People & Planet's recent migration away from Mercury mailserver to Cyrus IMAP. Given a user name, Pegasus mail di …
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