dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

max-mapper

var serialport = require('node-serialport')

var sp = new serialport.SerialPort("/dev/ttyO3", { 
  parser: serialport.parsers.raw,
  baud: 9600
})

sp.on('data', function(chunk) {
  console.log(chunk.toString('hex'), chunk.toString(), chunk)
})

masonforest

Installing a Gem on Heroku from a Private GitHub Repo

Sometimes you want to use a gem on Heroku that is in a private repository on GitHub.

Using git over http you can authenticate to GitHub using basic authentication. However, we don't want to embed usernames and passwords in Gemfiles. Instead, we can use authentication tokens.

1. Get an OAuth Token from GitHub

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First you will need to get an OAuth Token from GitHub using your own username and "note"

threedaymonk

 ~ > cat /etc/fstab 
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/mmcblk0p1  /boot           vfat    defaults        0       0
/dev/mmcblk0p2  /               ext4    defaults,noatime,nodiratime     0    0
#/dev/mmcblk0p3  none            swap    sw              0       0

NZKoz

• Install getmail (aptitude install getmail4)
• Set Up Your Imap Server (tl;dr)
• getmail
• ruby date_based_archive.rb ~/Maildir/.Archive

erikh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

coreyhaines

--colour
-I app

myobie

Get Mountain Lion and Homebrew to Be Happy

1) Install XCode 4.4 into /Applications

Get it from the App Store.

2) Install Command Line Tools

In XCode's Preferences > Downloads you can install command line tools.

burke

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.