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Parluks - Browser for website developers

Arturs Smirnovs — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:22:55 +0000

Browser made for developers built on top of Electron JS.

I'm proudly presenting my latest open source project: "Parluks". Parluks is browser made for website developer teams to inspect multiple devices / resolutions at once to speed up development process, its fully free and open source, feel free to contribute and support it. I have made it on electron JS and pure JS that allowed this project to be cross platform supporting Linux, Mac and Windows. It's really cool project that i'm proud of, it's still in bata 1.0 version but it's awesome start of 2021 for me :)

Check it out here

Key Features

30+ available devices with various resolutions
Zoom out / in without losing device aspect ratio.
Synchronised scroll across all device screens.
Developer tools console
Rotate devices
Light / Dark mode
Cross platform
- Windows, macOS and Linux ready.

Download

You can download the latest installable version of Parluks for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Screenshots

Download or contribute here.

Advent of code

Arturs Smirnovs — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 14:00:19 +0000

I recently came a cross interesting December challenge.
It's called advent of code, it has quite interesting challenges that you can solve using any programming language..

Here some small info:

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like.

https://adventofcode.com/

If you have some extra time in December feel free to participate.. :)

Random GitHub issue

Arturs Smirnovs — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 08:11:39 +0000

If you don't have issue, get one!

This small project help's you to find random issue on GitHub, get started and contribute to open source!

Find random issue and see if you can help!

Check out tool here

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What is your favorite movies related to IT?

Arturs Smirnovs — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 04:47:12 +0000

Let's share list of IT movies that are worth watching..

Here are some of my suggestions:

The Social Dilemma

Hacker

I.T.

V For Vendetta

Movies For Hackers
A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch. Ratings are from IMDb.

k4m4 / movies-for-hackers

🎬 A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch.

Movies For Hackers

A curated list of movies every hacker & cyberpunk must watch. Ratings are from IMDb.

Check out my blog and follow me on Twitter.

View the sortable version

Thrillers / Drama

MOVIE	GENRE	YEAR	RATING
21	Thriller/Drama/Crime	2008	6.8/10
23	Thriller/Drama	1998	7.3/10
Algorithm	Thriller/Drama/Crime	2014	4.8/10
Anonymous	Thriller/Drama/Crime	2016	6.4/10
Antitrust	Thriller/Drama	2001	6.1/10
Blackhat	Thriller/Drama	2015	5.4/10
Brazil	Drama/Science Fiction	1985	7.9/10
Enemy of the State	Thriller/Drama	1998	7.3/10
Hacker's Game	Thriller/Drama	2015	3.8/10
Hackers	Drama/Crime	1995	6.2/10
Hidden Figures	Biography/Drama/History	2017	7.8/10
I.T.	Thriller/Drama/Crime	2016	5.4/10
Listening	Thriller/Drama	2014	5.6/10
Live Free or Die Hard	Thriller/Action	2007	7.2/10
Office Space	Comedy/Romance	1999	7.8/10
Pi	Drama/Mystery	1998	7.5/10
Primer	Thriller/Drama	2004	7.0/10
Reboot	Thriller/Drama	2012	4.1/10
Snowden	Thriller/Drama	2016	7.3/10
Swordfish	Thriller/Caper Story	2001	6.5/10
Takedown

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The Social Dilemma

Arturs Smirnovs — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 04:38:51 +0000

I suggest to watch this movie if you haven't already!

ABOUT THE SOCIAL DILEMMA

The world has long recognized the positive applications of social media, from its role in empowering protesters to speak out against oppression during the Arab Spring uprisings almost a decade ago, to serving an instrumental role in fighting for equity and justice today. And in 2020, during an astonishing global pandemic, social media has become our lifeline to stay in touch with loved ones, as well as proving to be an asset for mobilizing civil rights protests. However, the system that connects us also invisibly controls us. The collective lack of understanding about how these platforms actually operate has led to hidden and often harmful consequences to society—consequences that are becoming more and more evident over time, and consequences that, the subjects in The Social Dilemma suggest, are an existential threat to humanity.

The Social Dilemma is a powerful exploration of the disproportionate impact that a relatively small number of engineers in Silicon Valley have over the way we think, act, and live our lives. The film deftly tackles an underlying cause of our viral conspiracy theories, teenage mental health issues, rampant misinformation and political polarization, and makes these issues visceral, understandable, and urgent. Through a unique combination of documentary investigation and entertaining narrative drama, award-winning filmmakers Jeff Orlowski (Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral) and Larissa Rhodes (Chasing Coral) have once again exposed the invisible in a manner that is both enlightening and harrowing as they disrupt the disrupters by unveiling the hidden machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search platforms.

The film features compelling interviews with high-profile tech whistleblowers and innovation leaders including Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology; the co-inventor of the Facebook “Like” button, Justin Rosenstein; Tim Kendall, former President of Pinterest and former Director of Monetization at Facebook; Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction; Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy at the AI Now Institute, and many others. Demonstrating how social media affects consumers on a personal level, these fascinating insider insights are seamlessly woven into a captivating narrative, including Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), that illuminates the very real consequences these seemingly innocent technologies can have on our everyday lives.

YouTube video title updater

Arturs Smirnovs — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 17:10:48 +0000

Hey! I liked this video made by Tom Scott go and watch it, kinda interesting video to spend few minutes in your evening, but story is not about this.. He made video and attached YouTube data API to it that automatically changes title to "This video has XXX views.", so i tried to imitate it and make my own version of it.

This was my first experience making youtube video, so don't be too harsh, but coding part was nice and simple and i made it to work easily..

Video

My video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbvQZTotBU8

Source code

Take a look at file update-tile.php if you are interested in code that updates title.

arturssmirnovs / youtube-video-views-title-update

YouTube video title updater: This video has X views and X likes.

Original idea

Tom Scott original video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0
nang explanation using python - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4xtZv5nFIk

GitHub profile readme generator

Arturs Smirnovs — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 08:27:20 +0000

I kinda love this github new feature about readme profile files.

So i decided to create profile views counter, but then it got me thinking why not to create profile readme generator?

So in me weekends i spent about 4 hours creating this simple tool that allows you to create nice and beautiful github readme files.

What's included?

Header generator with title, subtitle
Header banner URL
Header about me section and skills
Additional section
Social links + website
Statistics badges

Check tool here.

Check git repository here.

Preview

It was nice weekend project made with vue js that i haven't touched for some time. If you like this please star my repository would appreciate that a lot. :)

Github profile readme counter

Arturs Smirnovs — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 13:10:40 +0000

Looks like github new feature that you can create readme file to your profile has gone viral..

So it got me thinking if you can create views counter for that..

I made this super simple Yii2 Framework system that records views counts for your profile..

Check repo: https://github.com/arturssmirnovs/github-profile-views-counter

Code turned out to be very simple.. 5 columns in database:

id, profile, views, create_time, update_time.

Few lines of code that records views++ and then just simple svg image display without cache.

Simple and fun weekend project.

This is my first post. :)