willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

vodik

Once upon a time there was a user that wanted to install firefox.

The user tried to do pacman -S firefox but it didn't work. The all mighty pacman reported that firefox-3.2.4-1.i686.pkg.tar.gz could not be found on his mirror. So the user tried pacman -Sy firefox. It worked and the user rejoiced since he could once again go and troll /h/.

But all was not good. The user had made a grave error!

See, when the user told the almighty pacman to -Sy firefox, pacman did

sukima

// XORCipher - Super simple encryption using XOR and Base64
//
// Depends on [Underscore](http://underscorejs.org/).
//
// As a warning, this is **not** a secure encryption algorythm. It uses a very
// simplistic keystore and will be easy to crack.
//
// The Base64 algorythm is a modification of the one used in phpjs.org
// * http://phpjs.org/functions/base64_encode/
// * http://phpjs.org/functions/base64_decode/

gnarf

Install

Either copy the aliases from the .gitconfig or run the commands in add-pr-alias.sh

Usage

Easily checkout local copies of pull requests from remotes:

• git pr 4 - creates local branch pr/4 from the github upstream(if it exists) or origin remote and checks it out
• git pr 4 someremote - creates local branch pr/4 from someremote remote and checks it out

ramnathv

This is a short set of functions that use the httr package to upload a directory of files as a gist. The post_gist function uploads an anonymous gist, which can only be deleted within a short time of being uploaded. So be cautious in what you upload using this function.

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:

atdt

from flask import *

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/event.gif')
def log_event():
    event = request.args
    model = event.get('_id', '')
    # pull model from meta
    # validate model

getify

// var: poor stylistic form, but no leakage
function foo() {
   bar = 3;
   if (true) {
      var bar = 5;
   }
}

// let: will leak an auto-global
function foo() {

chriscoyier

@media only screen and (min-width: 320px) {

  /* Small screen, non-retina */

}

@media
only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 320px),
only screen and (   min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2)      and (min-width: 320px),
only screen and (     -o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1)    and (min-width: 320px),

kritzikratzi

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;