A while back, I scratched my own itch for automated webpage scrolling (e.g. for AWS logs) by creating a bookmarklet that would slam the scrollbar to the bottom of the document every second. It was a ham-fisted approach, but it worked. I …
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Improved "tail" bookmarklet
Tags:Minifying Javascript using ESBuild with Flask-Assets
Tags:I've been using Flask and its Flask-Assets package (which is a wrapper around the webassets package) for quite some time now without issue, but recently, I've been scratching an itch for ES2016 and beyond. One of my favorite features of …
Tail for browser windows
Tags:Have you ever been watching log output via a web application, and you just want your browser window to jump to the bottom of the document whenever new output shows up? Well, stranger, let me tell you, I certainly have. That's why I wrote …
repo2site: Make a web site out of a git repo's MarkDown files
Tags:I've just finished the initial work on a script that will make a full-HTML website, driven by AJAX, out of the MarkDown (*.md) files in a git repository. It's currently geared toward GitHub, but could easily be adapted to other repository …
A quick shell script for wine prefixes
Tags:Wine, the Windows emulator-that's-not-an-emulator for Linux distributions, has a way of maintaining separate Windows systems using the WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH environment variables. While it's a powerful mechanism, it's not so handy to …
My text editor configuration
Tags:I've been a Vim (and gVim) user for several years now, so naturally, I've amassed a byzantine maze of configuration settings and blessed plugins. This evening, I decided to publicize my configuration. Check it out!
Mozilla's TogetherJS in a bookmarklet
Tags:Mozilla recently introduced TogetherJS, a succession of their TowTruck service. Being that it is so similar to TowTruck, I went ahead and made a bookmarklet for it.
Bulk rename Subversion files with PowerShell
Tags:Scenario: We're upgrading our reporting software at work, and the way that it used to integrate with SVN (through a terrible SCC bridge) involved arbitrarily placing "app*" at the head of the file names. Of course, in the new …
Batch convert audio files to MP3 with PowerShell and VLC Player
Tags:I adapted a PowerShell script by Tim Van Wassenhove that recurses through a given directory, searching for various types of audio files. These files are then converted to MP3 using VLC Player's command-line interface. My adjustments to …
rexCrawler and HelpfulHighlighter are now open source
Tags:After having dipped my toe in the water of open source with some Arachni module changes and the development of a simple WordPress plugin, I've finally taken the plunge; two of my personal projects are now completely open source, and …
WordPress plugin minify Makefile
Tags:While working on my first commercial WordPress plugin, the need for build automation finally struck me. The environments in which I do my most development are all driven by Linux, and so I wanted to use a tried, true, and ubiquitous build …
Selective backup/copy script for moving files into production
Tags:Whenever our web site needs to undergo re-branding, there is always the hassle of creating both the selective package of files to move into production from development and the selective back-up of the necessary files already on the …
Using WSE 3.0 with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5
Tags:While I'm sure many of you have "moved on" to Visual Studio 2010, there are a large number of us still using 2008. Recently, my shop needed to write some code for interfacing with a vendor's web services. No problem, right? …
Kill all shared memory segments in Linux
Tags:See update below. I recently whipped up a shell script to kill all (IPC) shared memory segments in Linux for a client on oDesk. He wound up going with another contractor's offer, and so I figured I would post my script here for the …
Forward Gawker sites to their UK counterparts for a better layout
Tags:I wrote a (really) simple userscript today that reloads Lifehacker pages under uk.lifehacker.com. Why did I do this? Because the Lifehacker UK site doesn't have the trendy new (horrendous) AJAXified layout. Maybe using a hosts redirect …
Send XMPP messages with Perl (from the command line, too!)
Tags:I had been looking for a small, simple utility for Windows that could send XMPP messages from the command line for use in various automated tasks and notification processes. I came across sendxmpp as part of the CygWin installation, but …
bulkRename v1.1
Tags:A while back (in 2008), I wrote a simple system utility with VB.NET which leverages the power of regular expressions to rename files in bulk according to a pattern. I've had to use it several times recently after placing it on a …
Backup automation and emailing attachments in Linux
Tags:Any programmer who's ever been burned by data loss can tell you—you've got to have backups of your work. If it's code, perhaps they use a version control system such as Subversion. If it's something a little less-readily available, such …
Photobucket thumbnail bookmarklet
Tags:I've built a pretty simple little utility for turning the URL of an image hosted on Photobucket into a thumbnail which links to the full-sized image. I've designed one version for building bbCode (forum) mark-up, and one for building a …