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afontenot / fix-signal.sh

Created July 17, 2025 06:57

Replace the emoji used in Signal Desktop (on Linux) with Noto emoji

	#!/usr/bin/bash

	set -euo pipefail

	tempdir=$(mktemp --directory)
	pushd "$tempdir"
	npx asar extract /usr/lib/signal-desktop/resources/app.asar signal
	curl -JORL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iamcal/emoji-data/refs/heads/master/sheet_google_32.png'
	curl -JORL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iamcal/emoji-data/refs/heads/master/sheet_google_64.png'
	cwebp -progress -mt -preset icon -alpha_filter best -alpha_q 20 -pass 10 -q 75 sheet_google_32.png -o emoji-sheet-32.webp

afontenot / bbul.user.js

Last active March 19, 2025 19:33

User script to show Fediverse links for bridged users on their Bluesky profiles

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Bluesky Bridged User Labeler
	// @match https://bsky.app/*
	// @version 1.6.1
	// ==/UserScript==

	// Link to your Fediverse instance (use "{handle}" as a template)
	const FEDI_URL = "https://mastodon.social/@{handle}@bsky.brid.gy";

	// Globals

afontenot / mastodon-replace-emoji.css

Last active July 17, 2025 07:15

A CSS snippet to replace the hardcoded Twitter emoji on Mastodon with the local font

 /*
 ==UserCSS==
 @name             Mastodon - change emoji in emoji picker
 @match            https://mastodon.social/*
 @version          1.1.1
 ==/UserCSS==
 */
 /* NOTES:
  *

afontenot / election_night_live_model.R

Created October 31, 2020 22:25 — forked from elliottmorris/election_night_live_model.R

A live election-night prediction model using The Economist's pre-election forecast

	#' Description
	#' This file runs a live election-night forecast based on The Economist's pre-election forecasting model
	#' available at projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president.
	#' It is resampling model based on https://pkremp.github.io/update_prob.html.
	#' This script does not input any real election results! You will have to enter your picks/constraints manually (scroll to the bottom of the script).
	#'
	#' Licence
	#' This software is published by [The Economist](https://www.economist.com) under the [MIT licence](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). The data generated by The Economist are available under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
	#' The licences include only the data and the software authored by The Economist, and do not cover any Economist content or third-party data or content made available using the software. More information about licensing, syndication and the copyright of Economist content can be fou

afontenot / github-redesign-fixes.user.css

Last active September 9, 2020 22:34 — forked from LunarTwilight/github-redesign-fixes.user.css

	/* ==UserStyle==
	@name Github redesign fixes
	@namespace github.com/openstyles/stylus
	@version 1.5.5
	@description Fixes various issues with Github's redesign
	@author afontenot/LunarTwilight
	@preprocessor less
	@var color background "Readme header background color" #f1f8ff
	@var color border "Readme header border color" #e6e4e4
	@var text padding "Amount of padding used on the header" 18vw

afontenot / sd.py

Created March 31, 2020 01:30

snippet reproducing a bug in shapely's polylabel function

	import cartopy.crs as ccrs
	import cartopy.io.shapereader as shpreader
	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
	from shapely.ops import polylabel

	shapename="admin_1_states_provinces_lakes_shp"
	states_shp = shpreader.natural_earth(
	resolution='50m',
	category='cultural',
	name=shapename