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Bulk IMAP deletion of attachments from emails in a folder: IMAP Size Reducer

Last Updated: Thursday, 14 September 2023

This is a python script that deletes all attachments and inline media from emails that are over a certain size in a specified folder.

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How to do a Portable Install of REAPER on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux

Last Updated: Thursday, 08 August 2024

If you install Reaper with the "portable install" option selected, it places the entire program and associated configuration, themes, hotkey settings, license, etc, into a single directory (as opposed to the traditional method of installation, which is not fully self-contained.)

This has a few advantages:

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Translating/stripping file names while copying from one filesystem to another

Last Updated: Monday, 30 July 2018

Stripping, sanitizing, or otherwise translating filenames when copying or moving from one file system to another with different rules for file names can be a pain. I had to copy many GB of files off a friend's dead Mac iBook G4. Macs use the HFS+ file system, and while ext3/4 actually allows a lot of the same odd characters, you don't see them as often in an OS where people use command lines, and anyway I was copying to a FAT32 partition.

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lld: lossless decimation / deduplication of all-I-frame codecs on Linux (ProRes, etc.) with ffmpeg

Last Updated: Monday, 30 July 2018

lld is a bash script that does lossless de-duplication of ProRes or other all-I-frame video files (whatever ffmpeg can handle).

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Diagnosing DNS-sourced SPF problems

Last Updated: Monday, 29 August 2022

So, your outgoing messages are failing SPF, or your own SPF verifier is failing message for no good reason, and you want to figure out why? It might be the DNS of the sending domain.

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