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JavaScript Log Wrapping

Wrapping console.log (et al.) in your own function to modify logging behavior.

Why?

You may want a simple way to:

Transcribing Cardi B's political speech with AWS Transcribe and command-line tools

Inspired by the following exchange on Twitter, in which someone captures and posts a valuable video onto Twitter, but doesn't have the resources to easily transcribe it for the hearing-impaired, I thought it'd be fun to try out Amazon's AWS Transcribe service to help with this problem, and to see if I could do it all from the bash command-line like a Unix dork.

The instructions and code below show how to use command-line tools/scripting and Amazon's Transcribe service to transcribe the audio from online video. tl;dr: AWS Transcribe is a pretty amaz

ffmpeg

Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats

Convert WAV to MP3, mix down to mono (use 1 audio channel), set bit rate to 64 kbps and sample rate to 22050 Hz:

OS X's "Word of the Day" screensaver is a great way to passively learn words:

But I've always thought that its word list kind of stunk—it was full of obscure words that I could never really see myself using. I'd prefer something like Norman Schur's 1000 Most Important Words. What if you could plug your own word list into the screensaver?

On a rather obscure comment thread, someone explained where you might find the word list that Apple uses to power the screensaver. It is at /System/Library/Graphics/Quartz\ Composer\ Plug-Ins/WOTD.plugin/Contents/Resources/NOAD_wotd_list.txt. The file looks like this:

m_en_us1282510	quinsy

Remote, Office Not Required

The Time is Right for Remote Work

Why work doesn't happen at work

The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when then really want to get work done.

Offices have become interruption factories: it's just one interruption after

	// This gist is now maintained on github at https://github.com/luetkemj/wp-query-ref

	<?php
	/**
	* WordPress Query Comprehensive Reference
	* Compiled by luetkemj - luetkemj.github.io
	*
	* CODEX: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters
	* Source: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.9.4/src/wp-includes/query.php
	*/

	function interceptNetworkRequests(ee) {
	const open = XMLHttpRequest.prototype.open;
	const send = XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send;

	const isRegularXHR = open.toString().indexOf('native code') !== -1;


	// don't hijack if already hijacked - this will mess up with frameworks like Angular with zones
	// we work if we load first there which we can.
	if (isRegularXHR) {

	#!/bin/bash

	# Anh Nguyen <[email protected]>
	# 2016-04-30
	# MIT License

	# This script takes in images from a folder and make a crossfade video from the images using ffmpeg.
	# Make sure you have ffmpeg installed before running.

	# The output command looks something like the below, but for as many images as you have in the folder.

	import React, { useState, useEffect } from "react";
	import "./packages/combobox/styles.css";
	import {
	Combobox,
	ComboboxInput,
	ComboboxList,
	ComboboxOption,
	ComboboxPopup
	} from "./packages/combobox/index";

	#!/bin/sh

	# Make sure to:
	# 1) Name this file `backup.sh` and place it in /home/ubuntu
	# 2) Run sudo apt-get install awscli to install the AWSCLI
	# 3) Run aws configure (enter s3-authorized IAM user and specify region)
	# 4) Fill in DB host + name
	# 5) Create S3 bucket for the backups and fill it in below (set a lifecycle rule to expire files older than X days in the bucket)
	# 6) Run chmod +x backup.sh
	# 7) Test it out via ./backup.sh