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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

Git-workflow vs feature branching

When working with Git, there are two prevailing workflows are Git workflow and feature branches. IMHO, being more of a subscriber to continuous integration, I feel that the feature branch workflow is better suited, and the focus of this article.

If you are new to Git and Git-workflows, I suggest reading the atlassian.com Git Workflow article in addition to this as there is more detail there than presented here.

I admit, using Bash in the command line with the standard configuration leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to awareness of state. A tool that I suggest using follows these instructions on setting up GIT Bash autocompletion. This tool will assist you to better visualize the state of a branc

Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

Facebook: Unfollow people and pages

See comments section for more up-to-date versions of the script. The original script is from 2014 and will not work as is.

Open news feed preferences on your Facebook menu (browser)
Click people or pages
Scroll down (or click see more) until your full list is loaded
Run the script in your browser console

Facebook will block this feature for you while you use it, depending on how much entities you try to unfollow. It automatically unblocks in a couple of hours and you will be able to continue.

	echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
	. ~/.bashrc
	mkdir ~/local
	mkdir ~/node-latest-install
	cd ~/node-latest-install
	curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz \| tar xz --strip-components=1
	./configure --prefix=~/local
	make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
	curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh \| sh

	#!/bin/sh
	# Just copy and paste the lines below (all at once, it won't work line by line!)
	# MAKE SURE YOU ARE HAPPY WITH WHAT IT DOES FIRST! THERE IS NO WARRANTY!

	function abort {
	echo "$1"
	exit 1
	}

	set -e

	#!/bin/bash

	# Usage: slackpost <token> <channel> <message>

	# Enter the name of your slack host here - the thing that appears in your URL:
	# https://slackhost.slack.com/
	slackhost=PUT_YOUR_HOST_HERE

	token=$1

	# Nginx proxy for Elasticsearch + Kibana
	#
	# In this setup, we are password protecting the saving of dashboards. You may
	# wish to extend the password protection to all paths.
	#
	# Even though these paths are being called as the result of an ajax request, the
	# browser will prompt for a username/password on the first request
	#
	# If you use this, you'll want to point config.js at http://FQDN:443/ instead of
	# http://FQDN:9200

	# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
	for branch in `git branch -r \| grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ai %ar by %an" $branch \| head -n 1` \\t$branch; done \| sort -r