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gruber / Liberal Regex Pattern for Web URLs
Last active July 13, 2026 20:43
Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching Web URLs
The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http,
https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to
match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502
License: https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause
# Single-line version:
(?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com|net|org|edu|gov|mil|aero|asia|biz|cat|coop|info|int|jobs|mobi|museum|name|post|pro|tel|travel|xxx|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|dd|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|me|mg|mh|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nc|ne|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|ps
@Daniel1of1
Daniel1of1 / gist:8937116
Last active August 29, 2015 13:56
Add an accessory to cells in ABPeoplePickerNavigationController
Class ABMemberDataSourceClass = NSClassFromString(@"ABMembersDataSource");
SEL originalTableViewMethodSelector = @selector(tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:);
Method originalTableViewMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(ABMemberDataSourceClass, originalTableViewMethodSelector);
SEL newTableViewMethodSelector = @selector(dhc_tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath:);
IMP newTableViewMethodImp = imp_implementationWithBlock(^UITableViewCell * (id __unused _self, UITableView *tableView, NSIndexPath *indexPath){
@matthiasplappert
matthiasplappert / gist:9493050
Last active August 29, 2015 13:57
QuickLook Debugging for `UIView`
@interface UIView (MPAdditions)
@end
@implementation UIView (MPAdditions)
- (id)debugQuickLookObject {
if (self.bounds.size.width < 0.0f || self.bounds.size.height < 0.0f) {
return nil;
}
@drance
drance / gist:9613950
Last active August 29, 2015 13:57
Got tired of semaphore/runloop boilerplate for async unit tests
- (void)sleepRunLoopForInterval:(NSTimeInterval)interval whileRunningAsynchronousTest:(void (^)(dispatch_semaphore_t semaphore))test {
dispatch_semaphore_t semaphore = dispatch_semaphore_create(0);
NSAssert((test != NULL), @"Passed a NULL test block");
test(semaphore);
while(dispatch_semaphore_wait(semaphore, DISPATCH_TIME_NOW)) {
[[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] runMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode beforeDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:interval]];
}
}
@lfender6445
lfender6445 / gist:9919357
Last active August 1, 2026 20:30
Pry Cheat Sheet

Pry Cheat Sheet

Command Line

  • pry -r ./config/app_init_file.rb - load your app into a pry session (look at the file loaded by config.ru)
  • pry -r ./config/environment.rb - load your rails into a pry session

Debugger

@nicklockwood
nicklockwood / Hacking UIView Animation Blocks.md
Last active August 24, 2024 17:08
This article was originally written for objc.io issue 12, but didn't make the cut. It was intended to be read in the context of the other articles, so if you aren't familiar with concepts such as CALayer property animations and the role of actionForKey:, read the articles in that issue first.

Hacking UIView animation blocks for fun and profit

In this article, I'm going to explore a way that we can create views that implement custom Core Animation property animations in a natural way.

As we know, layers in iOS come in two flavours: Backing layers and hosted layers. The only difference between them is that the view acts as the layer delegate for its backing layer, but not for any hosted sublayers.

In order to implement the UIView transactional animation blocks, UIView disables all animations by default and then re-enables them individually as required. It does this using the actionForLayer:forKey: method.

Somewhat strangely, UIView doesn't enable animations for every property that CALayer does by default. A notable example is the layer.contents property, which is animatable by default for a hosted layer, but cannot be animated using a UIView animation block.

@jashkenas
jashkenas / semantic-pedantic.md
Last active July 23, 2026 08:33
Why Semantic Versioning Isn't

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

@imjasonh
imjasonh / markdown.css
Last active September 3, 2025 22:12
Render Markdown as unrendered Markdown (see http://jsbin.com/huwosomawo)
* {
font-size: 12pt;
font-family: monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
cursor: default;
}
@paulirish
paulirish / bling.js
Last active May 2, 2026 11:52
bling dot js
/* bling.js */
window.$ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
window.$$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
Node.prototype.on = window.on = function(name, fn) { this.addEventListener(name, fn); };
NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
NodeList.prototype.on = function(name, fn) { this.forEach((elem) => elem.on(name, fn)); };
@norm
norm / Makefile
Created July 16, 2015 13:50
Minimum Viable Python-only automatic SASS compilation
.PHONY: css
CSS=static/screen.css
css: $(CSS)
clean:
rm $(CSS)
$(CSS): static/%.css: sass/%.scss