Use FFmpeg and Apple Script to compress videos

Build an application you can drag-and-drop videos onto to compress them significantely:

Make sure you have ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg).

Create a new Apple Script app: AppleScript on open filelist repeat with i in filelist tell application "Terminal" do script "ffmpeg -i " & POSIX path of i & " -vcodec h264 -acodec mp2 " & POSIX path of i & "_compressed.mp4" end tell end repeat end open

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Const

Scope or scope in Rails

# app/models/user.rb
...
enum role: { user: 0, author: 1, admin: 2, robot: 3 }

scope :human, -> { user.or(author) }
scope :terminator, -> { admin.or(robot) }


Produces

User.human.to_sql
#=> "SELECT \"users\".* FROM \"users\" WHERE (\"users\".\"role\" = 0 OR \"users\".\"role\" = 1)"


827
Joe

HTML forms that submit to another action

I've known for a long time that you can submit values with submit buttons so you can track which button was used to submit the form e.g.

language-html

However, today I needed to actually submit the form to a completely differnt action. Turns out you can do this with formaction attributes

language-html

828
Joe

Get the password of the wifi you're on

wifi_password() {
    airport="/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport"
    ssid="`$airport -I | awk '/ SSID/ {print substr($0, index($0, $2))}'`"
    pwd="`security find-generic-password -D 'AirPort network password' -ga \"$ssid\" 2>&1 >/dev/null`"
    echo $pwd
}


$ wifi_password

password: "!forHackers"


830
Ali

Run rubocop before commit

Copy this into .git/hooks/pre-commit (remove .sample)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'english'
require 'rubocop'

ADDED_OR_MODIFIED = /A|AM|^M/.freeze

changed_files = `git status --porcelain`.split(/\n/).
    select { |file_name_with_status|
      file_name_with_status =~ ADDED_OR_MODIFIED
    }.
    map { |file_name_with_status|
      file_name_with_status.split(' ')[1]
    }.
    select { |file_name|
      File.extname(file_name) == '.rb'
    }.join(' ')

system("rubocop #{changed_files}") unless changed_files.empty?

exit $CHILD_STATUS.exitstatus


Make it executable

$ chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit


You're good to go, from now it'd run rubocop against your changes and prevents from commiting unless you fix the offences.

How to skip pre-commit? just pass -n to git commit

$ git commit -n -m "[hotfix] blah blah"


832
Ali

Show TODO and other notes in your Rails app

Did you know you can show all TODOs/OPTIMIZE/FIXME in your rails app with rails notes?

$ rails notes
app/helpers/users_helper.rb:
  * [10] [TODO] Use ActiveSupport extension methods for Date/Time

app/services/slack.rb:
  * [20] [OPTIMIZE] Replace library with core Net::HTTP



You can even focus with notes:todo etc.:

$ rails notes:todo
app/helpers/users_helper.rb:
  * [10] [TODO] Use ActiveSupport extension methods for Date/Time


827
Const

Create a Hash from an Enumerable (Rails 6.0)

New method allowing you to create a Hash from an Enumerable:

%w(driver owner drivy).index_with(nil)
# => { 'driver' => nil, 'owner' => nil, 'drivy' => nil }

%w(driver owner drivy).index_with { |role| delta_amount_for(role) }
# => { 'driver' => '...', 'owner' => '...', 'drivy' => '...' }


828
Ali

Restore a deleted file in Git

# Find in which commit it's been deleted
$ git rev-list -n 1 HEAD -- 
4058ef780d2f6c4c6d57cfd7fd4ebe14c9dc28b3
# Restore it back
$ git checkout 4058ef780d2f6c4c6d57cfd7fd4ebe14c9dc28b3^ -- 


828
Ali

Cleanup stale formulas on brew

Use brew cleanup to get some spaces back!

Use brew cleanup -n to list what's gonna get cleanup

Use brew cleanup to clean only that particular formula

<3

830
Tino

make a pr from command line using hub

install hub first with brew: brew install hub then use a simple command, like at the example below: hub pull-request -m "best pr ever" -b oozou:develop -h feature/awesome-improvements

or even smarter:

hub pull-request -m "best pr ever" -b oozou:develop -h $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)


for more detailed info how to make pull requests see at hub pull-request --help

827
Stan