Programming – Page 2 – Artur Piszek

Alfred Evernote Snippets

This is sort of a plugin to a great OSX app, Alfred. It adds all notes in Evernote “Snippets” Notebook as a quick-paste snippet in Alfred.

I use both alfred and evernote extensively, so Im quite happy about this one!

Usage

Provided you have Evernote, Alfred and powerpack and this workflow installed
Put some snippets in “Snippets” notebook in evernote
Hit afred `s your_note_title`
enter
note content is now pasted to your focused window

Download

Workflow on Packal

Alternative download here

Making of:

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Script filter:

var q = "{query}";

var values = Application('Evernote').findNotes("notebook:Snippets " + q);

var ret = '<?xml version="1.0"?><items>';

for (var i=0; i<values.length; i++ ) {

    var title = values[i].title();

    var val = values[i].htmlContent().replace(/<br\/>/g,'{enter}').replace(/<[^>]*?>/g,"");

    var sub = values[i].htmlContent().replace(/\n/g,'').replace(/<[^>]*?>/g,"");

    ret += '<item arg="'+val+'"><title>' + title + '</title><subtitle>' + sub + '</subtitle></item>';

}

ret += "</items>";

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You will need this to properly handle spaces (script filter has trouble with that)

NSAScript (synchronous)

on replace_chars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string)

 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string

 set the item_list to every text item of this_text

 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string

 set this_text to the item_list as string

 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""

 return this_text

end replace_chars

on alfred_script(q)

  return replace_chars(q, "{enter} ", "\n")

end alfred_script

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So you want to work at Automattic?

Today, it’s been precisely 6 months since I joined Automattic as JavaScript wrangler. All you’ve heard about how awesome this company is in fact an understatement!

It is out of this world!

I have started a blog dedicated to helping you get hired remotely. I have transfered this post there Click here to read -> .

PS: Working in Silicon Valley company was my Bucketlist #26

LearnMinder – Teaching kids how to code

LearnMinder is a SmartPhone app that blocks internet access until a homework / coding challenge is solved.

It is intended to be installed on a child’s smartphone. Parent can set up a topic that the child needs to practice. Every time the child wants to play or browse the Internet, she/he has to first solve a challenge custom tailored to current skill level. When the challenge is solved – child can use the Internet again.

The whole challenge is presented in a narrative that “the Internet is broken” and child needs to fix a bug in the software to use it. In the process, it learns, that all services it enjoys using are created by someone, maintained constantly and it is not magical black box.

Day by day, challenge by challenge the child gets more comfortable in thinking how the websites / services / games are designed and that sometimes it’s actually more fun to create these products than to use them.

Future integrations include

Coding lessons
Duolingo – foreign language lessons
Fintess tracker – training workouts

Current state

This application will be integrated with code.org and released under Open Source license.

I decided to re-write it in React Native to iron out some kinks.

How this app came to be – EUhackathon

In 2015 I had a pleasure to participate in EUhackathon. It was a splendid 2-day hackathon held in Brussels with a theme

Tools to help teach kids digital skills

During this event I created “Interfixer“, which I’m now rebranding as “LearnMinder”

During presentations, along with a fully functioning demo, I presented:

And I won!

This was a huge surprise for me, but the Jury decided that my application was best, and as a single participants, I won the 2015 edition of EU Hackathon 🙂 (You can read more here)

I met some AMAZING people (this was such a whirlwind!)

euhackathon252520435 — Me with European Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip

Me with Esther Wójcicki, Sergey Brinn’s mother-in-law

Reactive Compass – React plugin for keyboard-based navigation

Reactive compass is a navigation controller for keyboard navigation based systems. Initially developed for Smart TV and embedded devices utilizing IR Remote.

Fork / clone / enjoy on GitHub!

$4 SmartHome

Firenet is a Siri-controlled SmartHome installation using $4 ESP8266 modules and free Firebase account

Download / setup

Installation instruction, screenshots, information and code on GitHub

Features

Siri Control
Wireless control over $4 ESP8266 modules
AC/DC current control
RGB LED strip control, Sunrise simulation
IFTTT integration
- Presence sensing
- Google Calendar intogration
- Notifications
Device shadows (keeping last device state), notification on device disconnection (ex. when power fails)
Google / Facebok / Github… etc login and auth
Triggers that can start a series of tasks
Websocket API
REST API
React / Firebase web app
Runs on a free Google Firebase plan

Some screenshots

Devices list	Main menu	RGB lamp control	Composing triggers

This actually was on my dream list for a while and it’s a #184 in my bucketlist

swimR

swimR is a an that will revolutionize your swimming training. You just need to attach a beacon to your swimming glasses and swimR will gather data about your progress, compares it with previous achievements and if you want it – will synchronise with endomondo and runKeeper.

You will never again forget how many laps you did!

Hackathon child

swimR was conceived on Hackwaw3 – hackathon organized in Copernicus Center of Science in Warsaw, Poland. The topic was quantified self.

Use case

Idea is simple – we connect the phone to Bluetooth 4.0 beacon – in this particular case a borrowed Estimote beacon. The beacon – the size of an MP3 player – we attach to our swimming goggles. Then we swim.

The phone, left at the bank – is counting the lapses, speed and distance. We can see which distances we performed better, which worse. We can export data and make decisions based on facts.

A great tem

Karol Kozimor
Maciek Lis
Antoni Rokitnicki
Me (Artur Piszek)

Humble interface

This is how it looks in iPad:

The first day we wanted to check how our contraption behaves in water. Copernicus is a science center, so there’s a water track. Unfortunately, 2.4 Ghz does not penetrate water very well.

We attempt to solve this by gathering measurements once the swimmer comes out for air

Zabawa

This is how our presentation looked like 🙂

	============================
	Script filter:


	var q = "{query}";
	var values = Application('Evernote').findNotes("notebook:Snippets " + q);
	var ret = '<?xml version="1.0"?><items>';
	for (var i=0; i<values.length; i++ ) {
	var title = values[i].title();
	var val = values[i].htmlContent().replace(/<br\/>/g,'{enter}').replace(/<[^>]*?>/g,"");
	var sub = values[i].htmlContent().replace(/\n/g,'').replace(/<[^>]*?>/g,"");
	ret += '<item arg="'+val+'"><title>' + title + '</title><subtitle>' + sub + '</subtitle></item>';
	}

	ret += "</items>";


	============================
	You will need this to properly handle spaces (script filter has trouble with that)
	NSAScript (synchronous)

	on replace_chars(this_text, search_string, replacement_string)
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the search_string
	set the item_list to every text item of this_text
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to the replacement_string
	set this_text to the item_list as string
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
	return this_text
	end replace_chars

	on alfred_script(q)
	return replace_chars(q, "{enter} ", "\n")
	end alfred_script