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@adtac
adtac / README.md
Last active February 27, 2026 11:05
Using your Kindle as an e-ink monitor

🖥️ See Demo

3.5 fps, Paperwhite 3
@adtac_

step 1: jailbreak your Kindle

mobileread.com is your best resource here, follow the instructions from the LanguageBreak thread

I didn't really follow the LanguageBreak instructions because I didn't care about most of the features + I was curious to do it myself, but the LanguageBreak github repo was invaluable for debugging

@djkrose
djkrose / rotate-art.py
Created April 11, 2023 06:33
Randomly pics an image from a folder and uploads to The Frame
# Required for installation:
# - https://github.com/xchwarze/samsung-tv-ws-api
# pip3 install samsungtvws[async,encrypted]
# - https://pypi.org/project/wakeonlan/
# pip3 install wakeonlan
import os
import sys
import logging
import random
@gruber
gruber / Liberal Regex Pattern for Web URLs
Last active February 25, 2026 13:24
Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching Web URLs
The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http,
https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to
match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502
License: https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause
# Single-line version:
(?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com|net|org|edu|gov|mil|aero|asia|biz|cat|coop|info|int|jobs|mobi|museum|name|post|pro|tel|travel|xxx|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|dd|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|me|mg|mh|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nc|ne|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|ps
@gruber
gruber / make_bookmarklet.pl
Last active November 21, 2025 23:48
JavaScript Bookmarklet Builder
#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/javascript_bookmarklet_builder
use strict;
use warnings;
use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8);
use open IO => ":utf8", # UTF8 by default
":std"; # Apply to STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR
@philsturgeon
philsturgeon / gist:5465246
Last active May 23, 2022 12:29
API Golden Rules

Never Expose DB Results Directly

  1. If you rename a field, then your users are fucked. Convert with a hardcoded array structure.
  2. Most DB drivers [for PHP] will show integers as numeric strings and false as "0", so you want to typecast them.
  3. Unless you're using an ORM with "hidden" functionality, people will see passwords, salts and all sorts of fancy codes. If you add one and forget to put it in your $hidden array then OOPS!

Use the URI sparingly, and correctly

  1. Use the query string for paired params instead of /users/id/5/active/true. Your API does not need to be SEO optimised.
  2. ?format=xml is stupid, use an Accept: application/xml header. I added this to the CodeIgniter Rest Server once for lazy people, and now people think it's a thing. It's not.
@kimchy
kimchy / gist:1296774
Created October 18, 2011 21:26
curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/twitter/foo/1 -d '{"message": "hello world"}'
curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/twitter/bar/1 -d '{"message": "hello world"}'
# Use bool query with should clause, which ends up aggregating the scores if matching
# several clauses
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/_search?pretty=1' -d '{
"query" : {
"bool" : {
"should" : [
{ "text" : { "message" : "hello"} },