Jules Jans julesjans

Tech Lead at the Royal Academy of Arts

julesjans / color.sh

Created September 5, 2017 06:17

Shell script to change the tag/colour of item in Finder with AppleScript

	#!/bin/bash

	osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to set label index of alias POSIX file \"$1\" to 2"

julesjans / compress.sh

Last active August 18, 2017 10:50

Compress a file/directory using hdiutil and tar

	#!/bin/bash
	hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -srcfolder "$1" -volname "$(basename $1)" "$1.dmg"
	tar -cjf "$1.tar.bz2" -C "$(dirname $1)" "$(basename $1)"

julesjans / remove-from-git.sh

Created August 18, 2017 10:40

Remove a file from GIT history

git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch FILE_TO_DELETE' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all

julesjans / regex.swift

Created August 17, 2017 10:39

Simplified regex handler in swift

	import Foundation

	extension String {
	func regex(_ pattern: String) -> Bool {
	return self.range(of: pattern, options: .regularExpression) != nil
	}
	}

	let pattern = "http[s]?://[w].?booking.com.aid=[0-9]+"

julesjans / time-conversions.swift

Created August 17, 2017 10:32

Handle time conversions from .NET APIs

	import Foundation

	// Further Reading:

	// https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa258277(v=sql.80).aspx

	// http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-31/tr35-dates.html#Date_Format_Patterns

	// http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

julesjans / time-ago.swift

Created August 17, 2017 10:29

Human "time ago" for swift

	import Foundation

	extension Date {

	func timeAgo() -> String {

	let calendar = Calendar.current

	let seconds = calendar.dateComponents([.second], from: self, to: Date()).second!
	let minutes = calendar.dateComponents([.minute], from: self, to: Date()).minute!

julesjans / auction_prices.rb

Last active August 17, 2017 10:31

Calculating hammer price to limit on auction with variable commission rates


	BEFORE = 0.25 # Percent commission before the limit
	LIMIT = 50000 # The commission boundary
	AFTER = 0.20 # Percent after the boundary

	# The only number to change is this one! No spaces, dots or commas...!
	total_price_including_commssion = 10000000

	# Warning - Do not use for bids over a £1,000,000 Hammer

julesjans / vat_calc.rb

Created August 17, 2017 08:05

Calculating VAT

	module VatCalc

	def VatCalc.vat_rate
	@vat_rate \|\|= BigDecimal.new('20')
	end

	def VatCalc.vat_rate=(value)
	@vat_rate = BigDecimal.new(value.to_s)
	end

julesjans / screen-gif.sh

Last active May 8, 2021 16:40

Capture iOS Simulator to animated gif

	# Turn on the simulator screen capture
	xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo ~/simulator.mov

	# Convert the iPhone 6s screen shot into a gif:
	ffmpeg -i ~/simulator.mov -vf scale=320:-1 -r 6 -f gif -y simulator.gif

julesjans / ioslocaleidentifiers.csv

Created February 17, 2017 15:37 — forked from jacobbubu/ioslocaleidentifiers.csv

iOS Locale Identifiers

We can make this file beautiful and searchable if this error is corrected: No commas found in this CSV file in line 0.