Scraping Raw CSS and HTML with YQL
For a recent project I needed a way in JavaScript to pull the sources of a remote stylesheet and a remote webpage, each as plain strings. The immediate problems were with cross-origin resource sharing policies (i.e. you can’t simply load an html resource that’s not on your domain or that is not on a server […]
A Simple, Perfect Filament Spool Holder
I had a blast building a 3D printer, but since its completion it has mostly sat idle. Turns out the fun for me is in the build process, and actually using it for anything isn’t quite so entertaining. I was very happy, then, to find a file on Thingiverse that I actually wanted to print! […]
Happy Birthday Computer Science!
Our computer science department is now fifty years old, so I thought I’d make them a little card to celebrate. Here’s the unminified code, which you can execute in your console: var time=new Date().getTime(); if (time > 1577846298735 – 189345600000) { var year = 1964; var marquee = “Fifty years of smart computing… It’s in […]
Optiplex 7010 Dual-head Onboard and Radeon xorg.conf
Update: This xorg.conf is confirmed working with the described setup after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04. The upgrade will rename the file and attempt to use no xorg.conf; however, placing it back as “xorg.conf” within /etc/X11/ and restarting brings back a working triple-monitor configuration. At work I use a Dell Optiplex 7010 with a Radeon HD […]