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I'm Sean.

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oh russian text, i thought you had something valuable to share...
but no, you were only clever enough to use your native tongue in an attempt to fool me into publishing your funny, spam comment! thanks to google.com/translate, you were foiled in your plot to usurp traffic from my site
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
How to Create A Unix Timestamp or the Epoch in Python
It's a little convoluted. Seeing as it's a pretty common thing you use when programming computers one might think that there would be a quick and easy method for it. But from what I can tell there isn't. So here is a snippet that will give you a *nix Epoc...
Written by Sean Behan on 11/02/2013
Using Grep To Find or Match All Links in an HTML Document
egrep -or "(http(s)?://){1}[^'\"]+" path/to/directory You can further reduce to just return the images by piping again. grep -r src views/ | egrep -o "(mailto|ftp|http(s)?://){1}[^'\"]+" The -r flag is for a recursive directory scan....
Written by Sean Behan on 09/15/2013
Grab a Twitter Status without the Twitter API
Quick and dirty way to grab the users status messages without having to go through the twitter api (not having to authenticate that is). You can grab the RSS feed and indicate the number of statuses returned with the count param. I wrote this function for...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Git: How to Delete a Branch with an Invalid Name
If you've named a branch beginning with two dashes "--", you're sort of in trouble because git interprets your branch name as a switch/flag. You can skip switches all together by supplying two dashes before your branch name git branch -d -- --index_for_...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012