Author: Eana Hufwe

  • How LyricsX keeps track of progress of media players

    How LyricsX keeps track of progress of media players

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    LyricsX is an open source software for macOS to download and display lyrics of current playing track on Music (previously iTunes), Spotify, Audirvana, Vox, Swinsian, or the Now Playing indicator in the OS. It gets time-tagged lyrics files from local storage or internet, and then display the lyrics in sync with the player. As a…

  • Tonguess: Solver and Traffic Analysis

    Tonguess: Solver and Traffic Analysis

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    Yet another game from QuizKnock, I wrote a solver for it, and found that it wasn‘t required for a sure-win play.

  • Why I am moving away from Disqus (totally)

    Why I am moving away from Disqus (totally)

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    TL;DR: because their spam detection strategy is horrible.

  • Switch Galaxy Wearable Store Location using XPrivacyLua

    Switch Galaxy Wearable Store Location using XPrivacyLua

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    Update 6 July 2020: Added alternative method using Riru Location Report Enabler. Galaxy Wearable Store (GWS) is the app store for Galaxy wearable devices of Samsung. GWS is strongly region-dependent, just like other aspects of the device (you have to do some software hacking for a device purchased in one region to use Samsung Pay…

  • Monitor Connected Devices to an ASUS Router Using Raspberry Pi

    Monitor Connected Devices to an ASUS Router Using Raspberry Pi

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    Title should have explained it all. A simple Python script to monitor if a certain device has connected to the router via Wi-Fi, and send notifications accordingly. You can use this script for whatever purpose you want , though probably […]

  • Read and Write Tags of Music Files with FFmpeg

    Read and Write Tags of Music Files with FFmpeg

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    In both my previous and recent projects, I have been working with tags (metadata) of music files. One of the reason being I am rather particular about having a nicely organised library with all tag data aligned to the same format. Until recently while I was seeking for a solution to read and write tags…

  • Translate Text in Sphinx Templates and Configurations

    Translate Text in Sphinx Templates and Configurations

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    Weeks ago when I was playing around with the docs of EFB and the Crowdin translation widget, I realized that the default theme for Sphinx — Alabaster isn’t really doing well in term of translation. It seems like the author isn’t really confident on that (or simply didn’t care since 4 years ago). As the…

  • How to Write Integration Tests for a Telegram Bot

    How to Write Integration Tests for a Telegram Bot

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    This is my 6th article on Telegram, the IM platform of my preference. In this article I’m going to introduce about how I wrote the integration tests for my EFB Telegram Master channel — a Telegram interface for EFB, using a userbot-like strategy. To get started, you need to have a bot ready to be…