Marc Blase | musings, ideas, cogitations, discoveries and opinions

Marc is 100% awesome

It’s on the internet, so it’s a thing.

Sorry, this is only here to illustrate a point. Just because something is on the internet doesn’t necessarily make it true, except for this case, in which it’s 100% true.

Published on August 13, 2021

Yard Birds

Birds that have hatched and/or fledged in my yard.

Screech Owls

Cooper Hawks

Published on June 7, 2021

Power

W = V * A
V = W / A
A = W / V

W = watts
V = volts
A = amperes

Published on April 6, 2021

Me on a bike (2021 Season)

Zombie Goat Enduro – Flat Rock Ranch

DNF this race — injury crash

O’Rock Epic Enduro – Big Cedar, OK – Ouachita National Forest

results

Published on January 27, 2021

2020 Top Listens

Derrick Harriott
455
Billy Swan
393
Sault
348
Harry Nilsson
226
Jazz Spastiks
219
The Deli
219
Lee Dorsey
211
Richard “Groove” Holmes
207
Fiona Apple
182
Wilco
168
Burrito Brown
153
Saib
149
Ted Hawkins
149
Sweeps
146
emune
139
The Menzingers
139
Alphonse Mouzon
137
Jim Ford
137
Bully
123
Gene Harris & The Three Sounds
121
The Sea and Cake
121
Built to Spill
120
Run the Jewels
115
Rush
114
Wun Two
114
Hot Snakes
112
Shabazz Palaces
112
Moses Boyd
111
Eddie Henderson
110
Yussef Kamaal
108
Dr. Lonnie Smith
107
Maggie Rogers
107
Always Proper
103
Pkew Pkew Pkew
103
Tender Leaf
101
Mose Allison
100
New Tutenkhamen
100
Ikebe Shakedown
95
Real Estate
95
Justin Townes Earle
94
Smoke Trees
94
FloFilz
93
Adrian Younge
91
Fastlife
91
Undagawds
89
Ronnie Foster
88
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
86
Brother Noland
82
PUP
82
PENPALS
81

Published on January 1, 2021

Process CSV file and curl request with its contents

#!/bin/bash
# Purpose: Read Comma Separated CSV File and cURL using contents

INPUT=$1
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=','
[ ! -f $INPUT ] && { echo "Please provide a CSV file"; exit 99; }
while read user_email first_name last_name Level start_issue start_date
do
    # curl request with contents from CSV and write output to file
    curl -m 10 -X POST --data API_Key=KEY_GOES_HERE --data Email=$user_email --data Program_Data=PROGRAM_DATA_GOES_HERE --data FirstName=$first_name --data LastName=$last_name https://API_ENDPOINT.TLD >> curl_output.json
	
done < $INPUT
IFS=$OLDIFS

Run this as, if saved as curl-csv.sh:

$ ./curl-csv.sh curl-csv.csv

If you get the “/bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory” error message you probably created the .sh file in Windows and are running in a Linux shell. Run the following command to rectify.

$ sed -i -e 's/\r$//' curl-csv.sh

Published on December 3, 2020

gulp.watch not firing with changed files when run in WSL

Using WSL Debian for dev and gulp.watch is not running when files are changed on the Windows side. Solution is to add {interval: 1000, usePolling: true} to the gulp.watch event.

For example, here’s the styles portion of my gulp.watch task.

gulp.watch([path.source + 'styles/**/*'], {interval: 1000, usePolling: true}, gulp.series('styles'));

Published on August 19, 2020

Match and replace content in WordPress the_title()

In a situation where content in the_title() needed to be italicized.

function fix_the_title( $title ) {

  $new_title = $title;
  $pattern = '/Content to Match/';
  $replace = '<em>$0</em>';
  $new_title = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $new_title);

  return $new_title;
}
add_filter( 'the_title', 'fix_the_title' );

Add that to functions.php and you’re good.

Published on July 1, 2020