@pigshell

unix philosophy for the web

 Pune, India
pigshell.com
Joined August 2012
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Replying to @paul_irish
.@paul_irish Thanks! Listing really helps me when search is ineffective (because I've forgotten what files I have and what to search for)
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Replying to @pigshell
@pigshell running a `ls -alR` in my Google Drive was astoundingly valuable. Enormous thanks for making this happen.
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New Radar post: do one thing and do it well. About the demise of the Unix tools philosophy in the web world. oreil.ly/1Ndzayn
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Some people, when confronted with an HTML parsing problem, think, "I know, I'll use hgrep!" Now they have -1 problems.
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hgrep - search HTML with CSS selectors. e.g. curl -s news.ycombinator.com | hgrep -a href ".athing .title > a" github.com/pigshell/hgrep
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Into his face had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which meant @pigshell had been HNed again news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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The pigshell CLI is a weird 1 line instance of the @codemirror editor, giving us nice bash-style CLI editing. @marijnjh
Supporting Prose Mirror as a small way to thank @marijnjh for Code Mirror. igg.me/p/prosemirror/cstw/11…
Hacked up a Qt VNC plugin which lets any Qt app run headless, accessible remotely via VNC. github.com/pigshell/qtbase

GitHub - pigshell/qtbase: VNC platform plugin for Qt 5

VNC platform plugin for Qt 5. Contribute to pigshell/qtbase development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com
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Squornshellous app versions all called Zem. Keep getting killed/replaced, but users can never know which, so globbering kept to a minimum.
The multiverse is littered with the graves of hairball universes whose gods thought faster-than-light was a neat idea.
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This is spectacular deadpan snark. Pay attention to fine print annotations. welcometobusinesstown.tumblr…
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vim base.css
Drone of prayer wheels, proof of worship, congregations, miracles: drone of CPU fans, proof of work, mining pools, bitcoin
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Now I've seen everything. #Wat if (n != n) { // shortcut for verifying if it's NaN n = 0; }
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Behold, these are JS devs, if they use the structured clone algorithm, there's naught they cannot do. Come, let us hide it behind weird APIs
Struggling to make sense of arcane 7th-son-of-7th-son CSS sourcery? nthmaster.com/ is your friend (Thanks @jamesmenera!)
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GDrive API CORS bug (please pass on to any google engineers who can help) stackoverflow.com/questions/… @googledrive
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.@googledrive *Old* sheets (export URL like ".../spreadsheets/Export?key=..") work. New ones (exp URL like "...export?id=...") fail.
.@googledrive Downloading sheet from JS using exportLinks URL fails due to missing CORS header in GET. Used to work. doc/ppt work fine. Bug?
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