Bitbucket show hg commands button

2013-07-01 od romanb bitbucket, hacks, mercurial, ui

Steve Losh noted on Twitter that there's no usable URL to pull changes from pull request in your command line. Well, there is, sorta, pull request page html contain hidden "merge-commands" <pre> in case there are conflicts, all you have to do is show it.

I used greasemonkey to add "hg" button between "merge" and "edit" buttons on pull request page. It looks like this:

Here is script source:

Distinguishable colors for stack graphs

2013-06-29 od romanb hacks, ui

I needed to stack some data on single graph (like network traffic from multiple hosts).

Colors on such graphs should be distinguishable, best approach is evenly space (hue-wise) color palette. To enhance separation every odd color has lower brightness.

It will look something like this:

or this:

I needed it for RRDgraph so here's perl version: