git-history is a tool created by Simon Willison, that makes it easy to work with data collected via git scraping.
It expects data in a particular format - a flat JSON array. If your data isn't already there, you can use the --convert option to run any python code to make …
The Internet Archive's Wayback machine is a way to save a copy of a public webpage at a point in time. There is an API to submit URLs for them to crawl, but the documentation I found is fragmented and some is out of date. Here is what I have …
Today I learned about Powertoys,, a utility application from Microsoft.
Caps lock isn't a very useful key, but it occupies very valuable keyboard real estate, sitting on home row. Some programmers like mapping ctrl to the caps lock key. Some keyboards even have hardware settings to switch them. Personally, I …
In Firefox 109, Mozilla introduced a "unified extensions button". Normally, you can fully customize your toolbar, but this button cannot be moved or removed from the toolbar via the usual "Customize Toolbar" method.
However, it can be removed with an edit to your Firefox config. To remove it, open about …
Taking a cue from Simon Willison, a TIL (today I learned) about the moviepy library.
The library is very useful, but sometimes I have difficulty finding documentation on how to do specific things. For example, recently for NaMoGenMo I wanted to crossfade between 2 clips.
Suppose you have two 10-second …