May 4, 2021

How to convert .heic images to .jpg on a mac

Easily convert airdropped photos (.heic) to.jpg for easy uploading by running the following three commands on your command line. Step 1: Enter downloads directory $ cd ~/Downloads Step 2: Convert files (may have to brew install magick) $ ren '*.heic' '#1.HEIC'; magick mogrify -monitor -format jpg *.HEIC Step 3: Remove .heic files $ rm *.HEIC For repeated use it’s best to add an alias to your .zsh or .bash_profile. Below I named mine convert_heic

Airdrop

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How to convert .heic images to .jpg on a mac

Easily convert airdropped photos (.heic) to.jpg for easy uploading by running the following three commands on your command line.

Step 1: Enter downloads directory
$ cd ~/DownloadsStep 2: Convert files (may have to brew install magick)
$ ren '*.heic' '#1.HEIC'; magick mogrify -monitor -format jpg *.HEICStep 3: Remove .heic files
$ rm *.HEIC

For repeated use it’s best to add an alias to your .zsh or .bash_profile. Below I named mine convert_heic

alias convert_heic="cd ~/Downloads && ren '*.heic' '#1.HEIC'; magick mogrify -monitor -format jpg *.HEIC; rm *.HEIC

Dec 3, 2020

Thank god for reservation systems

and the understaffed engineering teams that built them There’s one thing I hate more than anything else: wasted time; whether mine or other’s, and since COVID has descended upon us, many resources which previously required no appointment/reservation have now had to build something last minute. Cue writing scripts to automate reservations… specifically for color.com COVID tests and for the 24HR gym fitness slots, putting this recently introduced annoyance straight in the dumpster.

Reverse Engineering

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Published in Python in Plain English

·Jul 6, 2020

AWS Lambda + Python: the easy way (using serverless)

If you’ve landed here, you’ve realized that AWS Lambda is a great, fun way to have production code up and running. However; when using Python, it quickly becomes obvious that the process of zipping the package, uploading to s3 and navigating the AWS interface is annoying at best. The following…

Engineering

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AWS Lambda + Python: the easy way (using serverless)

Jan 4, 2020

Accomplishing 2019 goals

One of the things I actually feel pretty good at is accomplishing the goals I set out to do; however when looking back over the year, there’s lots of things that I would have liked to do, but didn’t quite achieve — a classic case of biting off more than…

Goals

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Aug 22, 2019

Splitting rent is awkward

…but it doesn’t have to be. Splitting rent the efficient, unemotional way — San Francisco has some of the highest rent in the country, so when I moved here a year ago I had to find roommates, and someone was going to have to sleep under the stairs. The Theory on Awkwardness Deciding rent is uncomfortable because no one wants to get stuck with the bedroom with…

Roommates

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