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I immediately thought of the Flower of Life [1]. The symbol on the flag is a rotated, stylized version of the 7-circle rosette seen on that page. Lots of spiritual connotations. [1…

I wrote a Ruby script to check passwords back when the Pwned Passwords V2 API was introduced. I've added a second script to check a bulk list of passwords in a plain-text file. htt…

https://buymeacoff.ee/schmich Great way to promote your site. Onboarding was as easy as it gets. I'm a software developer with a job, but I also have open source projects that stre…

A quick Ruby script to check if a password has been compromised using the Pwned Passwords V2 API: https://gist.github.com/schmich/aeaffac922271a11b70e9a79a5fe...

God's number is 20: http://www.cube20.org/ They pruned a bunch and then did brute force evaluation of the remaining "hard" positions. It seems strange that there hasn't been a more…

I'm working on simplifying live streaming from the Raspberry Pi to Periscope [1] using the Camera Module [2]. Future streaming targets include the usual suspects: Twitch, YouTube, …

I've found this to be true not just of financing and money but of scheduling and time as well [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if this applies to many other resources, like employees i…

Steven Black's hosts compilation [1] is a good start for what to disallow. For URL shorteners, you could disallow URLs that trigger an HTTP redirect (e.g. HTTP 301), or you could f…

If you want encryption when sharing via termbin, I put together a gist [1] some time ago that helped me. Obvious caveat applies: don't do this if you're really concerned about the …

A couple months ago I put together a Docker image for just this. It's based on dnsmasq and Steven Black's hosts list, and it automatically updates the list daily: https://github.co…

Our team used pngquant ( http://pngquant.org/ ) recently to reduce complex, high-res PNGs to about 33% of their original size. It gave us the size benefits of lossy compression whi…

A Ruby script to scrape and download desktop-resolution images: https://gist.github.com/schmich/243688ea24cdb6ea1c32