Category: hacks
Everything filed under hacks.
"Bizarre" DNS Hacks For Fun And, Um…, Fun
I've been (slowly) making my way through FOSDEM 23 presentations and caught up to Peter Lowe 's " Bizarre and Unusual Uses of DNS • Rule 53: If you can think of it, someone's done it in the DNS " talk. DNS oddities are items I collect…
Getting Fit2Tcx Working on Mac OS X (10.9.x)
Andreas Diesner's #spiffy Fit2Tcx command-line utility is a lightweight way to convert Garmin/ANT FIT files to TCX for further…
Scraping Content From Google Groups
I was helping a friend out who wanted to build a word cloud from the text in Google Groups posts. If you've made any efforts to try to get content out of Google Groups you know that the only way to do so is to ensure you subscribe to the…
Christian Science Monitor Text Layout (Single Page Full Article View)
As I was about to " buffer " a reference to a CSM article on "cyber war" (below), I paused to look for a "print view" or some other icon that would let me show the whole article as a single page vs the annoying multi-page layout view they…