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 …
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Minifying Javascript using ESBuild with Flask-Assets
Tail for browser windows
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Truck It!: Mozilla TowTruck in a bookmarklet
Mozilla Labs has this really nifty, Javascript-based collaboration utility, TowTruck, which allows real-time web editing collaboration in the browser. It's got a lot of nifty features I won't get into in this post; sufficed to say, it's …
Add "desktop version" and "mark all as read" links to Tiny Tiny RSS mobile plugin
I installed Tiny Tiny RSS on a server of mine, and after tinkering around with it for a little while, I turned on the built-in mobile plugin. It's a wonderful little thing; it uses the iUI library to present a slick, single page …
Batch convert audio files to MP3 with PowerShell and VLC Player
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
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 …
Programmatically compile Audiences in SharePoint 2010
According to the documentation for the SharePoint 2010 SDK, you cannot trigger Audience compilation programmatically. Well—that's not true. It isn't documented, but it is possible. The painful thing about it is that you must know the …
WordPress plugin minify Makefile
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 …
bulkRename v2.0 released
I've converted my bulk file renaming utility from VB.NET to C# and made use of a command line arguments parsing library so that it will accept folders and regex patterns with spaces in them. It behaves a bit weird if you don't encapsulate …
Selective backup/copy script for moving files into production
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
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
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
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!)
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
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 …
URL rewriting template engine
My employer is currently in the process of standing-up a content management system (CMS). In the process of migrating links on our existing site to the new CMS site, there are going to be—at least, at first—a metric tonne of possible URL …
Backup automation and emailing attachments in Linux
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
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 …
Linux: Get size of sub-directores in current directory
Edit: Now that I'm more familiar with the Linux command line, I realize that I was trying to reinvent the wheel. I don't know if I missed this part of the du manpage or what, but the functionality I was looking for is baked in: du -hd 1 …
View live page source with Javascript
Have you ever been working on an AJAX-enabled webpage, or a page with complex redirects and permissions, and tried to view its source? What you wind up getting generally looks nothing like the current state of the page in question. You …