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Peter Bhat Harkins
Redshift With Cloudiness Adjustment
Code: bash, redshift
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A Lobsters story on the bright blue light of displays reminded me I should post this. I use redshift to adjust the color temperature of my monitor at night so I sleep better, and I wrote a custom wrapper script to include an adjustment for how overcast it is.
Continue this postPipe Viewer
Code: bash, console, pipes
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Today I found a really nice program for long-running console commands: pv, aka “Pipe Viewer”. If you’ve ever strung together a long command with pipes, run it, questioned why it’s taking so long, maybe open another terminal to run top… pv is the answer to that question.
Continue this postFlintstoning Toasters
Code: bash, Cambrian House, cron, toasters
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I picked up the term “flintstoning” from my visit to Cambrian House. It’s the practice of substituting a little human work for functionality until there’s enough demand for the feature that it’s worth the coder time to implement. Let me give you an example.