Here’s how I added Disqus to Ghost’s Casper theme. In the post template (post.hbs), look for

{{!--
<section class="post-full-comments">
    If you want to embed comments, this is a good place to do it!
</section>
--}}

and change it to

<section class="post-full-comments">
<div id="disqus_thread"></div>
<script>
  var disqus_config = function () {
    this.page.url = '{{url absolute="true"}}';  // Replace PAGE_URL with your page's canonical URL variable
    this.page.identifier = 'ghost-{{comment_id}}'; // Replace PAGE_IDENTIFIER with your page's unique identifier variable
  };

  (function() { // DON'T EDIT BELOW THIS LINE
    var d = document, s = d.createElement('script');
    s.src = 'https://your-short-code.disqus.com/embed.js';
    s.setAttribute('data-timestamp', +new Date());
    (d.head || d.body).appendChild(s);
  })();
</script>
</section>

making sure to replace your-short-code with your actual short code.

Then find the line

{{/contentFor}}

and add the disqus count script line above it, like:

<script id="dsq-count-scr" src="//your-short-code.disqus.com/count.js" async></script>
{{/contentFor}}

again, replacing your-short-code with your actual short code.

We used to get book reviews and summaries from a “service” called syndetics. The text was a horrible mess of mixed and broken encodings. This was my attempt to make some sense of it.

sub clean_summary {
  my $text = HTML::Entities::decode( shift );

  #attempt to make some sense of the mess that is text content from syndetics
  $text =~ s/&/&/ig;        #ampersands

  $text =~ s{#xC3;#xA2;#xC2;#x80;#xC2;#x94;}{—}g;
  $text =~ s{#xC3;#xA2;#xC2;#x80;#xC2;#x99;}{’}g;
  $text =~ s{#xC3;#xA2;#xC2;#x80;#xC2;#x9C;}{“}g;
  $text =~ s{#xC3;#xA2;#xC2;#x80;#xC2;#x9D;}{”}g;
  $text =~ s{\xF4([^\xF6]+)\xF6}{“$1”}g; #bizarrely-encoded quotes

  $text =~ s{\xC3\xB6}{ö}g; #unconverted UTF-8 ?

  $text =~ s{#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;}{—}g;
  $text =~ s{#xE2;#xAC;S}{“}g;
  $text =~ s{#xE2;#xAC;}{”}g;

  $text =~ s/#xC2;#x1[34];/—/ig;
  $text =~ s/#xC2;#x18;/‘/ig;
  $text =~ s/#xC2;#x19;/’/ig;
  $text =~ s/#xC2;#x1C;/“/ig;
  $text =~ s/#xC2;#x1D;/”/ig;
  $text =~ s/#xC2;&/…/ig;

  $text =~ s/(?<!&)#x13;/-/ig;       #hyphen
  $text =~ s/(?<!&)#x14;/&mdash;/ig; #mdash
  $text =~ s/(?<!&)#x1[89];/'/ig;    #single quote
  $text =~ s/(?<!&)#x1C;/&ldquo;/ig; #left double quote
  $text =~ s/(?<!&)#x1D;/&rdquo;/ig; #right double quote
  $text =~ s/(?<!&)#xD1;/&mdash;/ig;
  $text =~ s/(?<!&)#xD5;/&rsquo;/ig;

  $text =~ s/&?#x([0-9a-f]{2});/chr(hex($1))/ige; #syndetic-encoded hex character entities
  $text =~ s/&?#([0-9]{2,4});/chr($1)/ige;        #syndetic-encoded decimal character entities

  $text =~ s/(?<!&)(lsquo|rsquo|ldquo|rdquo|mdash|ndash|bull|middot|hellip);/&$1;/ig; #entities missing ampersands

  HTML::Entities::decode( $text ); #again, to catch the syndetic to standard conversions

  $text =~ s/<[^>]+>/ /g;  #strip HTML-like tags (so many of which don't have proper spacing around them...)
  $text =~ s/\s+([,;:])/$1/gi; #remove space before commas
  $text =~ s/([,;:])(?=\w)/$1 /gi; #add a space after commas
  $text =~ s/(?<=[a-z])([.?!])(?=[A-Z])/$1 /i; #add a space between sentences
  $text =~ s/[\s\xA0]+/ /g;     #replace all whitespace (including newlines) with a single space
  $text =~ s/^\s//;       #remove leading whitespace
  $text =~ s/\s$//;       #remove trailing whitespace
  $text =~ s{ [\x00-\x1F] }{}gxms; #strip unprintable characters

  HTML::Entities::encode_numeric($text);
  $text =~ s/&#145;/&#8216;/g;
  $text =~ s/&#146;/&#8217;/g;
  $text =~ s/&#147;/&#8220;/g;
  $text =~ s/&#148;/&#8221;/g;
  $text =~ s/&#149;/&#8226;/g;
  $text =~ s/&#150;/&#8211;/g;
  $text =~ s/&#151;/&#8212;/g;
  $text =~ s/[|]/&#x7C;/g;      # don't break pipe files!

  return $text;
}

Encoding Translation

A Perl module I used to use to get text out of the library catalogue for use on the web.

package PLCH::MARCtoLatin;

use 5.008007;
use warnings;
use strict;

require Exporter;
our @ISA    = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw( CharConv );

#  Within your program, you would pass the function a
#  string that you would like to be converted.
#  Something like this...
#   my $ConvertedAuthor = CharConv($author);

sub CharConv {

    my $line = shift;

    # Check for high-order characters ( > hex 7F).  If none found,
    # no conversion needed.  (Added by MK, 2005)
    # Added check for \x1B - RRI 2007
    return ($line) unless ( $line && $line =~ /[\x1B\x80-\xff]/ );

    # Convert input string to hexadecimal
    $line =~ s/(.)/sprintf ("%%%X", ord($1))/eg;

    # This subroutine takes data encoded with the MARC-8
    # character set and (as best as can be done) maps it
    # to the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set.

    # First, combined MARC-8 characters that don't
    # correspond to any Latin-1 characters are removed.
    # Then combined MARC characters that correspond to
    # extended Latin-1 characters are replaced with the
    # appropriate values. This process is then repeated
    # for single values.

    my @orphan_chars_combined = (
        '%1B%67%61%1B%73', '%1B%67%62%1B%73', '%1B%67%63%1B%73', '%1B%62%30%1B%73', '%1B%62%31%1B%73', '%1B%62%32%1B%73',
        '%1B%62%33%1B%73', '%1B%62%34%1B%73', '%1B%62%35%1B%73', '%1B%62%36%1B%73', '%1B%62%37%1B%73', '%1B%62%38%1B%73',
        '%1B%62%39%1B%73', '%1B%62%28%1B%73', '%1B%62%2B%1B%73', '%1B%62%29%1B%73', '%1B%70%30%1B%73', '%1B%70%34%1B%73',
        '%1B%70%35%1B%73', '%1B%70%36%1B%73', '%1B%70%37%1B%73', '%1B%70%38%1B%73', '%1B%70%39%1B%73', '%1B%70%28%1B%73',
        '%1B%70%2D%1B%73', '%1B%70%2B%1B%73', '%1B%70%29%1B%73',
        '%E0%E6',          '%E1%E3',          '%E1%E5',          '%E1%E6',          '%E1%E8',          '%E2%A5',
        '%E2%B5',          '%E2%E4',          '%E2%E5',          '%E2%E6',          '%E2%E8',          '%E2%EA',
        '%E2%F0',          '%E3%E0',          '%E3%E1',          '%E3%E2',          '%E3%F2',          '%E4%E3',
        '%E4%E6',          '%E5%E4',          '%E5%E7',          '%E5%E8',          '%E5%A5',          '%E5%B5',
        '%E5%F1',          '%E5%F2',          '%E6%F0',          '%E6%F2',          '%E7%E2',          '%E7%F2',
        '%E8%E4',          '%E8%E5',          '%E9%E8',
    );

    my @orphan_chars_single = (
        '%A1', '%A7', '%A9', '%AE', '%AF', '%B0', '%B1', '%B3', '%B7', '%B8', '%BB',
        '%BE', '%BF', '%C1', '%C2', '%C4', '%E0', '%E5', '%E6', '%E7', '%E9', '%EB', '%EC', '%ED', '%EE',
        '%EF', '%F1', '%F2', '%F3', '%F4', '%F5', '%F6', '%F7', '%F8', '%F9', '%FA', '%FB', '%FC', '%FD', '%FE',
    );

    my %marc8_to_latin1_combined = (
        '%1B%70%31%1B%73' => 'B9', # Superscript 1
        '%1B%70%32%1B%73' => 'B2', # Superscript 2
        '%1B%70%33%1B%73' => 'B3', # Superscript 3
        '%E1%41'          => 'C0', # A grave
        '%E2%41'          => 'C1', # A acute
        '%E3%41'          => 'C2', # A circumflex
        '%E4%41'          => 'C3', # A tilde
        '%E8%41'          => 'C4', # A umlaut
        '%EA%41'          => 'C5', # A ring
        '%E2%43'          => '43', # C
        '%E3%43'          => '43', # C
        '%F0%43'          => 'C7', # C cedilla
        '%E1%45'          => 'C8', # E grave
        '%E2%45'          => 'C9', # E acute
        '%E3%45'          => 'CA', # E circumflex
        '%E4%45'          => '45', # E
        '%E8%45'          => 'CB', # E umlaut
        '%F0%45'          => '45', # E
        '%E2%47'          => '47', # G
        '%E3%47'          => '47', # G
        '%F0%47'          => '47', # G
        '%E3%48'          => '48', # H
        '%E8%48'          => '48', # H
        '%F0%48'          => '48', # H
        '%E1%49'          => 'CC', # I grave
        '%E2%49'          => 'CD', # I acute
        '%E3%49'          => 'CE', # I circumflex
        '%E4%49'          => '49', # I
        '%E8%49'          => 'CF', # I umlaut
        '%E3%4A'          => '4A', # J
        '%E2%4B'          => '4B', # K
        '%E3%4B'          => '4B', # K
        '%F0%4B'          => '4B', # K
        '%F2%4B'          => '4B', # K
        '%E2%4C'          => '4C', # L
        '%E3%4C'          => '4C', # L
        '%F0%4C'          => '4C', # L
        '%E2%4D'          => '4D', # M
        '%E1%4E'          => '4E', # N
        '%E2%4E'          => '4E', # N
        '%E4%4E'          => 'D1', # N tilde
        '%F0%4E'          => '4E', # N
        '%E1%4F'          => 'D2', # O grave
        '%E2%4F'          => 'D3', # O acute
        '%E3%4F'          => 'D4', # O circumflex
        '%E4%4F'          => 'D5', # O tilde
        '%E8%4F'          => 'D6', # O umlaut
        '%E2%50'          => '50', # P
        '%E2%52'          => '52', # R
        '%E2%53'          => '53', # S
        '%E3%53'          => '53', # S
        '%F0%53'          => '53', # S
        '%F0%54'          => '54', # T
        '%E1%55'          => 'D9', # U grave
        '%E2%55'          => 'DA', # U acute
        '%E3%55'          => 'DB', # U circumflex
        '%E4%55'          => '55', # U
        '%E8%55'          => 'DC', # U umlaut
        '%EA%55'          => '55', # U
        '%E4%56'          => '56', # V
        '%E1%57'          => '57', # W
        '%E2%57'          => '57', # W
        '%E3%57'          => '57', # W
        '%E8%57'          => '57', # W
        '%E8%58'          => '58', # X
        '%E1%59'          => '59', # Y
        '%E2%59'          => 'DD', # Y acute
        '%E3%59'          => '59', # Y
        '%E4%59'          => '59', # Y
        '%E8%59'          => '59', # Y
        '%E2%5A'          => '5A', # Z
        '%E3%5A'          => '5A', # Z
        '%E1%61'          => 'E0', # a grave
        '%E2%61'          => 'E1', # a acute
        '%E3%61'          => 'E2', # a circumflex
        '%E4%61'          => 'E3', # a tilde
        '%E8%61'          => 'E4', # a umlaut
        '%EA%61'          => 'E5', # a ring
        '%E2%63'          => '63', # c
        '%E3%63'          => '63', # c
        '%F0%63'          => 'E7', # c cedilla
        '%E1%65'          => 'E8', # e grave
        '%E2%65'          => 'E9', # e acute
        '%E3%65'          => 'EA', # e circumflex
        '%E4%65'          => '65', # e
        '%E8%65'          => 'EB', # e umlaut
        '%F0%65'          => '65', # e
        '%E2%67'          => '67', # g
        '%E3%67'          => '67', # g
        '%F0%67'          => '67', # g
        '%E3%68'          => '68', # h
        '%E8%68'          => '68', # h
        '%F0%68'          => '68', # h
        '%E1%69'          => 'EC', # i grave
        '%E2%69'          => 'ED', # i acute
        '%E3%69'          => 'EE', # i circumflex
        '%E4%69'          => '69', # i
        '%E8%69'          => 'EF', # i umlaut
        '%E3%6A'          => '6A', # j
        '%E2%6B'          => '6B', # k
        '%E3%6B'          => '6B', # k
        '%F0%6B'          => '6B', # k
        '%F2%6B'          => '6B', # k
        '%E2%6C'          => '6C', # l
        '%E3%6C'          => '6C', # l
        '%F0%6C'          => '6C', # l
        '%E2%6D'          => '6D', # m
        '%E1%6E'          => '6E', # n
        '%E2%6E'          => '6E', # n
        '%E4%6E'          => 'F1', # n tilde
        '%F0%6E'          => '6E', # n
        '%E1%6F'          => 'F2', # o grave
        '%E2%6F'          => 'F3', # o acute
        '%E3%6F'          => 'F4', # o circumflex
        '%E4%6F'          => 'F5', # o tilde
        '%E8%6F'          => 'F6', # o umlaut
        '%E2%70'          => '70', # p
        '%E2%72'          => '72', # r
        '%E2%73'          => '73', # s
        '%E3%73'          => '73', # s
        '%F0%73'          => '73', # s
        '%E8%74'          => '74', # t
        '%F0%74'          => '74', # t
        '%E1%75'          => 'F9', # u grave
        '%E2%75'          => 'FA', # u acute
        '%E3%75'          => 'FB', # u circumflex
        '%E4%75'          => '75', # u
        '%E8%75'          => 'FC', # u umlaut
        '%EA%75'          => '75', # u
        '%E4%76'          => '76', # v
        '%E1%77'          => '77', # w
        '%E2%77'          => '77', # w
        '%E3%77'          => '77', # w
        '%E8%77'          => '77', # w
        '%EA%77'          => '77', # w
        '%E8%78'          => '78', # x
        '%E1%79'          => '79', # y
        '%E2%79'          => 'FD', # y acute
        '%E3%79'          => '79', # y
        '%E4%79'          => '79', # y
        '%E8%79'          => '79', # y
        '%EA%79'          => '79', # y
        '%E8%79'          => 'FF', # y umlaut
        '%E2%7A'          => '7A', # z
        '%E3%7A'          => '7A', # z
        '%E2%A2'          => '4F', # O
        '%E1%AC'          => '4F', # O
        '%E2%AC'          => '4F', # O
        '%E4%AC'          => '4F', # O
        '%E1%AD'          => '55', # U
        '%E2%AD'          => '55', # U
        '%E4%AD'          => '55', # U
        '%E2%B2'          => '6F', # o
        '%E1%BC'          => '6F', # o
        '%E2%BC'          => '6F', # o
        '%E4%BC'          => '6F', # o
        '%E1%BD'          => '75', # u
        '%E2%BD'          => '75', # u
        '%E4%BD'          => '75', # u
    );

    my %marc8_to_latin1_single = (
        '%A2' => 'D8', # O slash
        '%A3' => 'D0', # ETH
        '%A4' => 'DE', # THORN
        '%A5' => 'C6', # AE ligature
        '%A6' => '4F', # OE ligature -> O
        '%A8' => 'B7', # Middle dot
        '%AA' => 'AE', # Registered trademark
        '%AB' => 'B1', # Plus-minus sign
        '%AC' => '4F', # O
        '%AD' => '55', # U
        '%B2' => 'F8', # o slash
        '%B4' => 'FE', # thorn
        '%B5' => 'E6', # ae ligature
        '%B6' => '6F', # oe ligature -> o
        '%B9' => 'A3', # Pound sign
        '%BA' => 'F0', # eth
        '%BC' => '6F', # o
        '%BD' => '75', # u
        '%C0' => 'B0', # Degree sign
        '%C3' => 'A9', # Copyright sign
        '%C5' => 'BF', # Inverted question mark
        '%C6' => 'A1', # Inverted exclamation
        '%C7' => 'DF', # sharp s
        '%EA' => 'B0', # Degree sign
    );

    foreach my $char1 (@orphan_chars_combined) {
        $line =~ s/$char1//g;
    }
    foreach my $marc_char1 ( keys(%marc8_to_latin1_combined) ) {
        $line =~ s/$marc_char1/pack("C", hex($marc8_to_latin1_combined{$marc_char1}))/eg;
    }
    foreach my $char2 (@orphan_chars_single) {
        $line =~ s/$char2//g;
    }
    foreach my $marc_char2 ( keys(%marc8_to_latin1_single) ) {
        $line =~ s/$marc_char2/pack("C", hex($marc8_to_latin1_single{$marc_char2}))/eg;
    }

    $line =~ s/%([A-F0-9][A-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

    return ($line);
}

1;

たいてい​６じごろ​おきます。 まいにち​あさごはんを​たべます。 ぜんぜん​コーヒーを​のみません。 オフィスに​いきます。 たいてい​オフィスで​こうちゃを​のみます。 でも、ときどき​ウーロンちゃ​のみます。 じゅうじはんに​にほんごの​クラスへ​いきます。 １じに​MSBへ​かえります。 ひるごはんを​たべます。 ときどき​おちゃを​のみます。 ６じごろ​うちに​かえります。 たいてい​うちで​ばんごはんを​たべます。 でも、ときどき​レストランで​ばんごはんを​たべます。 まいばん​にほんごを​べんきょうします。 ときどき​ほんを​よみます。 あまり​テレビを​みません。 １０じに​ねます。 しゅうまつは​よく​ねます。 ちゃを​のみます。 ほんを​よみます。 おさけを​のみます。 ねこを​はなします。 おんがくを​ききます。 ときどき​ともだちの​いえに​いきます。

これはウーロンちゃです。 おちゃじゃないです。 コーちゃじゃないです。 おいしいですよ。

これはkoboです。 Kindleじゃないです。 これはほんですか。

わたしのぼうしです。 このぼうしはいくらですか。 ¥7,000です。

はじめまして、Robert Ireton　です。
アメリカじんです。
せんこうはすうがくです。
よんじゅうさんさいです。
よろしくおねがいします。

Calibri ↔ Carlito
Cambria ↔ Caladea

sudo apt-get install fonts-crosextra-carlito fonts-crosextra-caladea

I’ve been using Geany for most of my development work for several years now and, while I’ve been generally happy with it, as I’ve started to do more web-based work and less system administration, I’m starting to feel that it isn’t giving me as much support as I’d like. So: time to start surveying the field to see if there’s something that might suit me better.

Initial Candidates:

• Atom
• Brackets
• Eclipse
• Komodo Edit
• Light Table
• Sublime Text
• UltraEdit
• WebStorm / PhpStorm

Some Requirements

• syntax highlighting for: HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL, Perl, arbitrary XML, Bourne / Bash script, Python, Julia
• auto-complete / intelligent code completion for same
• markup helping (e.g. ctrl-b wraps selected text in …)
• robust regular expression search & replace
• flexible line endings / character encodings for working with files from other environments
• case-folding, entity replacement, sorting, etc. native or via plugin
• bracket matching
• read image files to update width & height attributes of <img> tags

I was experiencing very poor font rendering at small point sizes for the Microsoft fonts (Calibri, Arial, etc.). The solution was to tell the system to ignore the embedded bitmaps in the font files. I created ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf with this content:

<match target="font">
<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>

I needed to boot to a Linux live USB on an old machine with a video card that was causing problems. I learned from Ask Ubuntu to replace “quiet splash” with “text” in the boot line.

I upgraded my work desktop from Ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10 today, and none of my virtual machines would load all the way—they would start to boot then fail before the guest OS had loaded all the way. What ended up fixing the problem was removing the old Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack and installing the new one from the website.