Just happened to assemble this script hack recently, out of the requirement for a quick’n'dirty feed parsing feature:
$feed_contents = file_get_contents($feed_url);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($feed_contents, LIBXML_NOCDATA);
$feed_array = json_decode(json_encode($xml));
print_r($feed_array); // Surprise!!Now this evidently is not SimplePie or Magpie RSS or whatever feed reader library tickles your fancy
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Now that I’m using a Mac (with Mac OS) at work I’m sorely missing truly essential tools such as ffmpeg. The only binary build I could find (without having to download fink and a ton more packages that I don’t really need) was a build from 2006. Two thousand and six! Which in ffmpeg terms is like the Pleistocene.
So given that I have XCode installed anyway, I decided to build ffmpeg myself, just as I had done back in 2007. It should be as doable as back then!
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Call me whatever you want to call me, but whenever I hear “Friday the 13th”, I immediately think of the image above.
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It’s a New Year–we’re actually twelve days off it and I still haven’t found time to sit down and write about it. Which is good!
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“Thanks to the power of CSS” you just need to install these extensions:
With compliments to mr.doob for revealing me the secret!