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@mpociot
mpociot / CheckAccessToken.php
Last active February 21, 2018 00:52
Validate access tokens sent through Amazon Alexa requests
<?php
namespace App\BotMan\Middleware;
use BotMan\BotMan\BotMan;
use Laravel\Passport\TokenRepository;
use League\OAuth2\Server\ResourceServer;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use BotMan\Drivers\AmazonAlexa\Extensions\Card;
use BotMan\BotMan\Interfaces\Middleware\Received;
@jamesmacwhite
jamesmacwhite / ffmpeg_mkv_mp4_conversion.md
Last active May 17, 2025 08:32
Easy way to convert MKV to MP4 with ffmpeg

Converting mkv to mp4 with ffmpeg

Essentially just copy the existing video and audio stream as is into a new container, no funny business!

The easiest way to "convert" MKV to MP4, is to copy the existing video and audio streams and place them into a new container. This avoids any encoding task and hence no quality will be lost, it is also a fairly quick process and requires very little CPU power. The main factor is disk read/write speed.

With ffmpeg this can be achieved with -c copy. Older examples may use -vcodec copy -acodec copy which does the same thing.

These examples assume ffmpeg is in your PATH. If not just substitute with the full path to your ffmpeg binary.

Single file conversion example

@PurpleBooth
PurpleBooth / README-Template.md
Last active June 10, 2025 23:11
A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

@Chaser324
Chaser324 / GitHub-Forking.md
Last active May 25, 2025 02:12
GitHub Standard Fork & Pull Request Workflow

Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j