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Hey, this is the super basic tutorial on AutoHotkey. It goes from a fresh Windows install to running a script in 5 minutes. If you don’t sit there talking about it (like I did), you could do it in 2 minutes.
Continue reading AutHotkey Tutorial: Install and Hello World
The Internet is filled with many web sites that offer web services. We take a look at an example site that generates ASCII Art based on text you give it. Using FireBug, a python script, and a little creativity we use this anywhere we want and for (almost) any purpose.
Firebug is often described as a Firefox extension that helps with web development — which it is — but it also has other uses.
Recently I had some old code and a newer version of those same files. I couldn’t just use one of them, deleting any changes made in the other. I had to know what’d changed in each file.
This is the second video in this series. The first can be found here.
The main topic is the ability to repeat a pattern.
I use regualar expressions in my every day life and you might find them useful too. This series of videos will cover a lot of what you need to know in order to use them efficiently.
Bear with me as these take some explaining but once you know them, you’ll be glad you spent the time.
Have you ever opened a text file on your Windows computer and had it be all one line? It happens to me quite frequently.
The problems this causes can range from making you constantly scroll right, to having a program that can’t even read it. To solve this, we’ll write a script in Python that can do this for us.
Continue reading Change Line Endings (Windows, UNIX, MacOS)
Internet relay chat is a wonderful way to talk about topics that interest you with others. All you need is a browser to use an online service. One popular server is freenode, which has its own browser based client.
Wikipedia defines it as follows,
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file sharing.
Bots, which is short for ‘robots’, are computer programs (or scrips!) that talk to the IRC server by themselves. They can send messages, receive messages, join and leave channels and do anything else _you_ could do. If a channel moderator promotes them, they can also kick and/or ban users.
Hello and welcome to aboutscript! This is the first post here and diving into some scripting seems like a good start. There’ll be a post about the site later. For now get ready to learn some AutoHotkey!