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paragonie-scott / crypto-wrong-answers.md
Last active August 17, 2024 06:33
An Open Letter to Developers Everywhere (About Cryptography)
@wkjagt
wkjagt / audio-book-reader.md
Last active April 12, 2024 14:18
How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

#How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

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Last year, when visiting my family back home in Holland, I also stopped by my grand-parents. My grand-father, now 93 years old, had always been a very active man. However, during the presceding couple of months, he'd gone almost completely blind and now spent his days sitting in a chair. Trying to think of something for him to do, I suggested he try out audio books. After finally convincing him -- he said audio books were for sad old people -- that listening to a well performed recording is actually a wonderful experience, I realized the problem of this idea.

####The problem with audio devices and the newly blind. After my first impulse to jump up and go buy him an

@diestrin
diestrin / Hexagon.scss
Created October 24, 2013 05:46
Hexagon mixin for sass. Use http://jtauber.github.io/articles/css-hexagon.html as a reference.
@mixin hex ($size, $color, $direction: vertical, $margin: true) {
$height: 0;
$width: 0;
@if $direction == vertical {
$width: $size;
$height: round($size * (30 / 52));
}
@else {
@19h
19h / TiYoutube.js
Last active November 11, 2015 16:24
Titanium Mobile SDK iPhone / Android: Extract Youtube Video URL / URI from video-id / identification / name and play mp4 file. (Workaround for the recent change of security in Youtube)
Titanium.App.addEventListener("playvideo", function (e) {
var win11 = Titanium.UI.createWindow({
orientationModes: [Ti.UI.LANDSCAPE_LEFT, Ti.UI.LANDSCAPE_RIGHT],
title: "Video",
zIndex: 222222
});
var activeMovie = Titanium.Media.createVideoPlayer({
fullscreen: !0,
autoplay: !0,
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earthgecko / bash.generate.random.alphanumeric.string.sh
Last active April 24, 2025 05:26
shell/bash generate random alphanumeric string
#!/bin/bash
# bash generate random alphanumeric string
#
# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and
NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1)
# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1