An excelent explination on the evolution of responsive design tequines in CSS over the years. Starting with basic word-wrapping of text, to break-points, to flex-box, and finally the CSS grid.
Install Python 3.7 on Ubuntu
tar xzvf Python-3.7.0.tgz
cd Python-3.7.0
./configure --enable-optimizations
make
altinstall
Batch Convert FLAC files to MP3 files
You can convert a flac file to mp3 via ffmpeg.
ffmpeg -i "{}.flac" -c:v copy -q:a 0 "{}.mp3"
That command will need to be run for each flac file in a directory.
To find files in a directory use the find command:
find ./ -maxdepth 1 \
-type f \
-iname '*.flac' \
One thing to note is that files with a ' in them will break when piping the
outputs of find to xargs. To fix this you must add printf argument to find.
find ./ -maxdepth 1 \
-type f \
-iname '*.flac' \
-printf '"%p"\n'
The printf arugment will ensure each file is quoted when being passed to xargs.
Next you’ll want to remove the file extension from the file, this can be done via sed.
sed -e 's/\.[^.]*$//' will find the everything from the last dot until the
end of the file and replace it with nothing. i.e. "a.flac" will become "a.
To add back the ending quotation mark, simply substitude .flac" with "
resulting in "a".
Finally we’ll want to take these find results and pass them into ffmpeg via xargs
find ./ -maxdepth 1 \
-type f \
-iname '*.flac' \
-printf '"%p"\n' | sed -e 's/\.[^.]*$/\"/' | xargs -I '{}' \
ffmpeg -i "{}.flac" -c:v copy -q:a 0 "{}.mp3"
By removing the file extension via sed we were able to easily specify the
intput and output files by adding the expected file extension.
Finally you can remove theh flac files with a similar method:
find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.flac' -printf '"%p"\n' | xargs -I '{}' rm "{}"
Which Programming Language Are You? - Eureka Software →
My least favorite language lol
(Source: eurekasoft.com)
Tiny Wins →
Really interesting read about tiny out of band changes.
This was a one-line code change that took a few minutes… This tiny change
solved a seemingly small frustration, but it turned out to be very
significant to many of our users.
individual responses tell a story of how meaningful even the smallest tweak
can be to your users.
If there is even a slight inefficiency or frustration, it compounds with
every use. One confusing moment that takes an extra 5 seconds—repeated
multiple times a day in perpetuity—adds up to a lot of anxiety and wasted
time.
I noticed something weird about the issues we solved with these changes. They
were almost never reported.
Hundreds of people were ecstatic when we added that arrow to PR pages. Out of
those, not a single one indicated that this flow was confusing. A lot of
people assumed it was their own fault for not just “getting” it.
you can’t exclusively rely on existing user feedback and tickets. You need to
dig deeper.
Using BrowserSync with Django
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
browser-sync start --proxy localhost:8000 --no-open --files "**/*.+(css|js|html)"
Advent Of Code 2017 Day 1
Advent Of Code 2017 has begun.
Here is my solution for day 1:
https://gitlab.com/tomleo/koans/blob/c83405b202d2d3837b09c73a01b8de3cdcacbbbd/advent-2017/day_01.py
astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse →
Really Beautiful Library, I really should learn ocaml… or finish reading SCIP… or finish that Haskell book…
The origins of hotmail
Random Though: My first ever email account was Hotmail. My sister helped me with the sign-up form. Later I switched to yahoo, and in highschool I was given an invitation to gmail.
Hotmail was released in 1996. The name was chosen because it included the letters HTML to emphasize it being ‘on the web’ (it was original stylized as ‘HoTMaiL’)
Hotmail was originally implemented using FreeBSD, but in a decision I’m sure every engineer regretted, it was moved to Windows 2000 after the service was bought by Microsoft.
Zack Bloom via https://eager.io/blog/history-of-email/