How to Extract all Images from a Webpage with Ruby
Here is a little ruby snippet that will download all pictures from a webpage. Rather than using XPath, we are going to first reduce the source code to capture everything inside of quotes. Some websites use JSON w/in a script tag to lazy load images an...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/01/2018
How to Get GPS Location Information from a Photo or Movie with Swift and UIImagePickerController
This code assumes you're using the UIImagePickerController. If not you will need to get an image url another way. But, If you are using UIImagePickerControllerDelegate then it will supply the asset's url in the `info` dictionary . From the asset's url...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/11/2018
Generate a Gravatar URL with Ruby
To get a Gravatar you need to hash an email address with the MD5 algorithm. MD5 is a part of the Ruby standard library. Rails loads it by default, but otherwise you will have to require it yourself. This is a simple implementation. Gravatar su...
Written by Sean Behan on 04/11/2014
How To Create Blurry Background Images Programmatically from the Command Line or with Ruby
Turn this into this You can use ImageMagick to make blurry images. To install with Homebrew on OS X. brew install imagemagick After installing you can run from the command line convert yourimage.png -channel RGBA -blu...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/24/2013