cninja, to enforce better CMake defaults, manage various configurations for CMake buildsystems and easily generate toolchains with a set of configurations / linker options / etc.
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#242I wrote a small Python script that will SSH into my remarkable paper tablet, copy all of the raw files to my desktop, and then convert the binaries to pdf. I use this tool on a daily basis to offline backup my handwritten notes. https://github.com/awwong1/remarkable-cli
Thank you!
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#243Most recently, this websub-listener[1] to subscribe to websub feeds, mostly just to catch spacex launches. just sends a message to some slack channels, but could be extended to do a lot. Still really happy with how it's working out, maybe I'll extend it with RSS later.
I've had some annoyances with Insomnia and wanted to take a shot at making my own tool. so here's http-client[2].
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#244I operate a long-form nonfiction website, and back in 2012 we wanted to introduce a podcast episode version for each of our articles. I started tinkering with making recordings, but I suffered from the cringe of hearing my own voice, which was amplified by hearing every mistake and retake. I finally got past this problem by rolling my own audio recording software. I paste in the script, and the software highlights on…
Agreed this is really neat! A couple months ago I had to make a product demo and it took way too long because I kept having to re-record bits.
Really hope you opensource it.
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#245I am currently learning SQL/Python, I often just wanted to know the headers and how many rows are in a CSV file, so I just wrote a small Python script for it. import csv import readline readline.set_completer_delims(' \t\n=') readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete") def csvOpen(file): with open(file, "r", newline='', encoding='utf-8-sig') as csvfile: reader = csv.reader(csvfile) i = next(reader) dRows = sum(1 for lin…
This can be done using two lines of Bash
- `head -n 1 ` to get headers - `wc -l ` to count number of rows
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let me know if you've got any feedback, suggestions or feature requests.
I couldn't find results for the Arabic verb: يعيب or its past form عاب. It means something like criticize. Any tips?
Well you've found an عيب in the dictionary! Currently it uses a single dictionary, Hans Wehr, which doesn't contain that word (I've checked in my physical copy also).
In my backlog is adding additional dictionaries to fill in where Hans Wher is lacking, with next in line Lane's Lexicon. Hans Wehr is a good dictionary for students and contains approximately 90% of the words they will encounter in their first few years of studying. The issue I'm having at the moment is that both dictionaries are structured differently and it requires some manual work to unify their structures.
When searching a verb you can either search the root letters, or any other form even with affixes attached and the stemming algorithms should get the right root word.
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#247It seems like a toy compared to most of the other tools in this thread, but FWIW I have a little script I call "did": grep "$1" ~/.bash_history | tail It just shows me the last ten commands that include a search term. E.g. "did foo" shows the last ten commands that include "foo".
This is going straight into my bash_aliases. Thanks!
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#248I operate a long-form nonfiction website, and back in 2012 we wanted to introduce a podcast episode version for each of our articles. I started tinkering with making recordings, but I suffered from the cringe of hearing my own voice, which was amplified by hearing every mistake and retake. I finally got past this problem by rolling my own audio recording software. I paste in the script, and the software highlights on…
This is a fantastic idea. I’ve found that nothing is more annoying than to get through like five minutes of a take when recording a video and then having to redo it because I slipped up. I would love to be able to write a script, be prompted a few sentences at a time and then have it stitched together seamlessly. You need to refine and market this. If you could do this with video you’d kill it.
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#249I build a cli music player that can handle both local mp3s and Spotify tracks in the same playlist, because I wanted that.
I also recently built a tool to help me keep track of my books (what I own, what I want to read, what I've borrowed, etc).
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#250I along with 50ish colleagues use a software that has ole object which can be pasted in PowerPoint. The object contains plots which can be modified for axis and zoom etc. Our reports mostly contain these plots which explain acoustic/vibration events in a car.
Making a complex presentation is a difficult task considering when you paste these they don’t exactly occupy the space you want them to occupy. I made a neat ribbon toolbar using VB.net (vsto addin) that even updates over network path after PowerPoint bootsup. The toolbar let’s you resize an object and place it on the slide in a click. It also ‘activates’ the object at certain zoom level, so that they are look better.
P.s. I’m not comp sci guy so forgive me if im not using the right words here.