mperham

Go has a number of low-level crypto APIs which check off marketing bullet-points (got FIPS supprt, check!) but is missing an high-level API usable by mere mortal programmers. Imagine you want to create a document, sign it and verify that document later. Now check out Go's crypto APIs and give up in frustration after an hour of Googling.

The API should encapsulate a half-dozen common operations and make them as easy as possible. Avoid choice where possible, just pick something reasonably secure in 2014 for me and use it! I'm speaking specifically of a few basic actions (yes, this API is very naive/non-idiomatic), call it crypto/easy:

• Create me a public/private key pair and save it to the filesystem.

// create and persist a keypair to the current directory.
// this is just a one-time operation, now we have a keypair to use.
easy.CreateKeyPair()

romainl

This gist is no longer maintained.

See https://github.com/romainl/idiomatic-vimrc for an up-to-date version.

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My Vim-related gists.

matthewpizza

cd $HOME
ln -s `which php54` ~/bin/php
export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php54
echo -e "\n# Composer\nalias composer=\"php54 \$HOME/composer.phar\"" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

lukasborawski

$media-queries: true;

@mixin bp($point) {
  @if ($media-queries) {
    $bp-large-screen: 1824px;
    $bp-bigscreen: 1824px;
    $bp-ipad-max: 1024px;
    $bp-ipad-min: 768px;
    $bp-iphone5-max: 568px;
    $bp-iphone-max: 480px;

hofmannsven

Git

Global Settings

• Related Setup: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/6814278
• Related Pro Tips: https://ochronus.com/git-tips-from-the-trenches/
• Interactive Beginners Tutorial: http://try.github.io/
• Git Cheatsheet by GitHub: https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet/

Reminder

Press minus + shift + s and return to chop/fold long lines!

jasonrudolph

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

• The hottest repositories created in the last week.
• The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
• Issue trends by language.
• Clojure projects defying convention.

mojavelinux

GitHub Flavored Markdown

View the [source of this content](http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/sample_content.html).

Equivalent in AsciiDoc

rebornix

import feedparser

rss_url = ""

feed = feedparser.parse( rss_url )
items = feed["items"]
for item in items:
    time = item[ "published_parsed" ]
    title = item[ "title" ].encode('gb18030')
    fileName = str(time.tm_year) + '-' + str(time.tm_mon) + '-' + str(time.tm_mday) + '-' + title + '.md'

jareware

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

djs070

<div class="weg-modal weg-modal-overlay" style="width:100%;height:100%;position:fixed;top:0;left:0;background:black;z-index:11000;display:none">&nbsp;</div>   
<div class="weg-modal" style="display:none;width:890px;height:644px; background:white; position: fixed; top: 100px; left: 50%; margin-left: -450px; z-index:11500">
  <a href="#" class="close" style="display:block;position:absolute;top:-25px;right:-25px;z-index:100;">
    <img src="/sites/default/files/modal-close.png" />
  </a>
  <div style="width: 860px; height:614px; margin: 0 15px 15px; position: absolute; top: 15px">
    <a href="/membership-benefits" style="display: block;">
      <img src="/sites/default/files/renewal-landing.jpeg" />
    </a>
  </div>