Check this out for more tiny Finder toolbar applications Solution Make a light-weighted application with AppleScript. Step 1 Create a new AppleScript script, input: try tell application "Finder" set sel…
Here is the new workflow in place of the old popular one using virtualenv, pip, requirements.txt and virtualenvwrapper. Tools pyenv for Python version installation and switch Pipenv for virtualenv creation…
Problem Under macOS, sometimes we want to make new text files directly in place while browsing some folders in Finder. Opening a text editor, creating a file, and saving it…
在Twitter上关注了几个图片账号, 比如@HistoryInPix, 经常想把一些有趣的图文转发到微博, 但操作起来却麻烦. 闲来无聊, 就做了个小机器人来自动把感兴趣的账号发的推全部转发到微博的某个账号(@图中看史)里, 这样在微博里就可以关注和转发了. 简单记录一下过程. Open source: GitHub: twitter2weibo 准备工作 首先, 在Twitter和微博的开发平台上注册成为开发者, 并分别创建应用. Twitter开发平台 微博开放平台 Twitter上很简单, 创建即生效, 直接拿到四个值: consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, access_token_secret. 微博上就有点麻烦, 因为需要官方审核. 因此需要做一个简单网页, 放上微博组件, 审核通过后才可以让第三方账号(开发者之外的账号)使用.…
Problem Update value of object in Realm DB is annoying because the task should be within a writing transition. Solution Extend the Realm’s Object class to provide convient methods to…
(Tested on: Linode with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) Install Jekyll on Ubuntu VPS sudo apt update && apt -y upgrade sudo apt install ruby ruby-dev ruby-bundler zlib1g-dev build-essential make gcc git…
After writing the last post Note taking without note taking app, I found that manipulating documents via a minimal UI would be more efficient than via command lines. So in…
Why I do not use a note app Evernote, Quiver, Simplenote, …, They are all good and I have used them a lot. But now I uninstalled them all. Why?…
Components used for this article: VPS: Linode OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Web server: Nginx WSGI server: Gunicorn Application framework: Pyramid Relational database: PostgreSQL NoSQL data store: Redis Python version: 3.4…
Install and run Shadowsocks on server I put the following process in this section into a shell script. Check out this “one-click” method: giraffe (Environment: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed on…