William Ting's blog

  1. Resyncing .srt Files

    Jan 04, 2013

    I wrote another one-off tool last night to fix some of an issue that's been plaguing me for a while. Sometimes when subtitles are off you can offset them in VLC or XBMC, but it's only temporarily and usually has a +/- 10 second limit.

    srt-resync is a simple ...

  2. Linux pwait

    Jan 03, 2013

    I've been frustrated with the lack of pwait on Linux for a while now. wait exists, but it's limited by the fact that it can only monitor child processes of the current shell.

    The simplest version of a pwait is:

    $ while [ -e /proc/${pid} ]; do sleep 0.1 ...
  3. Why We Bookmark

    Oct 30, 2012

    Brian Groudan over at Mozilla conducted a study into how and why users bookmark URLs. I think it can be further simplified even further into three categories: Now, Later, and Future.

    bookmarks flowchart

    Now

    This is the stuff you use daily: email, calendar, news, Facebook, etc. In the past companies like Yahoo ...

  4. GUADEC 2012

    Aug 02, 2012

    GNOME banner

    After the initial culture shock of attending my first Linux conference (let's just say the dress code was casual), the annual GNOME conference was highly informative and productive.

    Tor: Anonymity Online – Jacob Appelbaum

    Jacob explained the Tor project, the necessity for network anonymity, and onion routing. Arab Spring resulted ...

  5. Going to GUADEC!

    Jun 29, 2012

    I was recently sponsored by the GNOME Travel Committee to go to GUADEC! I'm pretty excited about attending the conference, participating in hackathons, and visiting Europe for the first time.

    I've also submitted a proposal to give a Lightning Talk, so hopefully I'll get to present my ...

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