Brian Kelly briankelly

Printing to a Brother P-Touch Cube PT-P300BT label printer from a computer

Superseded document

This Gist is superseded by https://github.com/Ircama/PT-P300BT

Introduction

The Brother P-touch Cube PT-P300BT labelling machine is intended to be controlled from the official Brother P-touch Design&Print 2 app for Android and iOS devices, instead of from a computer.

Markdown - Resize pictures in GitHub

I found that the "best" way is to use HTML, as it works both in Readme/.md files and also in comments (within Issues, Gist...)

E.g. when adding/editing a comment (within Issues, Gist...) :

Upload the picture by drag-and-drop in the text field
replace ![image](https://your-image-url.type) with <img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="100" height="100">

As mentioned by @cbestow (thanks!), it's not mandatory to set both width and height. If only one is set, the other will be adjusted accordingly to preserve the aspect ratio of the image.

You've probably stumbled upon this researching how to remove the Xbox Game Bar. This gist includes a few different methods you can try. Please note that some of these first options are probably not be available unless you are running an older version of Windows 10.

EDIT: make sure to check out the comment below from @nmhung1985 which seems to be working for most folks.

Uninstalling/Removing the Game Bar (old Windows 10 build GUI options)

(this is no longer an option on any recent Windows 10 build)

Press Windows Key or click on the Start menu.
Start typing Xbox or Game Bar, until you get the Xbox Game Bar app to appear in the results.

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

	# File: custom-mosh.zsh
	# Author: electblake <github.com/electblake>
	# Last Modified: 2024-01-25
	# Source URL: https://gist.github.com/electblake/e150f3dc45ee0452ef3fe21fd34221e2
	# Description:
	# Enhances the `mosh` command in Zsh by automatically adding default arguments.
	# Defaults set:
	# --server "/usr/local/bin/mosh-server"
	# Additional defaults can be added in future updates.
	#

	Synology NAS - How to make a program run at startup
	The other day I created a little node.js project to keep track of some finances. Synology has a node.js package but that just installs the tools - it has no 'container' or any other support to drop files and have it run automagically. Maybe one day.

	In the meantime, you can start your project when you SSH into the NAS. My project has a 'www' script which bootstraps my project, so to start I simply type 'node bin/www' from the project directory. But, it only runs while I'm logged in, and if I log out for any reason, the process dies. That's hardly useful when I'm away from home, or on a different PC. So I decided to have a look at starting my project as a Linux service.

	After doing a lot of research into how Synology does services, and a few failed attempts at init scripts, I found that Synology DSM (since version 5 perhaps) bundles Upstart, which is a neat little tool to deal with services on Linux. It's most prevalent on Debian and derivatives (notably Ub

	print("UPDATE AUG 2023: this script is beyond old and broken")
	print("You may find interesting and more up to date resources in the comments of the gist")
	exit()

	from slacker import Slacker
	import json
	import argparse
	import os

	# This script finds all channels, private channels and direct messages

	# source : http://code.google.com/p/natvpn/source/browse/trunk/stun_server_list
	# A list of available STUN server.

	stun.l.google.com:19302
	stun1.l.google.com:19302
	stun2.l.google.com:19302
	stun3.l.google.com:19302
	stun4.l.google.com:19302
	stun01.sipphone.com
	stun.ekiga.net

	# the following two lines give a two-line status, with the current window highlighted
	hardstatus alwayslastline
	hardstatus string '%{= kG}[%{G}%H%? %1`%?%{g}][%= %{= kw}%-w%{+b yk} %n*%t%?(%u)%? %{-}%+w %=%{g}][%{B}%m/%d %{W}%C%A%{g}]'

	# huge scrollback buffer
	defscrollback 5000

	# no welcome message
	startup_message off

	// Basic XMPP bot example for HipChat using node.js
	// To use:
	// 1. Set config variables
	// 2. Run `node hipchat_bot.js`
	// 3. Send a message like "!weather 94085" in the room with the bot


	var request = require('request'); // github.com/mikeal/request
	var sys = require('sys');
	var util = require('util');