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@cowboy
cowboy / HEY-YOU.md
Last active September 25, 2025 09:25
jQuery Tiny Pub/Sub: A really, really, REALLY tiny pub/sub implementation for jQuery.
@LeverOne
LeverOne / LICENSE.txt
Created October 24, 2011 04:17 — forked from jed/LICENSE.txt
generate random v4 UUIDs (107 bytes)
DO WTF YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 Alexey Silin <[email protected]>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WTF YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
@davatron5000
davatron5000 / gist:2254924
Created March 30, 2012 20:57
Static Site Generators

Backstory: I decided to crowdsource static site generator recommendations, so the following are actual real world suggested-to-me results. I then took those and sorted them by language/server and, just for a decent relative metric, their Github Watcher count. If you want a heap of other projects (including other languages like Haskell and Python) Nanoc has the mother of all site generator lists. If you recommend another one, by all means add a comment.

Ruby

@matthewsimo
matthewsimo / local-config.php
Created May 11, 2012 16:37
Local Config for WP
<?php
define('WP_CONTENT_DIR','/Users/matthewsimo/projects/lift/.../wp-content');
define('WP_CONTENT_URL','http://local.project.com/wp-content');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://local.project.com/');
define('WP_HOME','http://local.project.com/');
@micahlmartin
micahlmartin / .bash_profile
Created August 12, 2012 22:45
Micah's Bash profile for mac
export PATH+=/usr/local/bin
#list all and colorize
alias ls='ls -Ga'
#fix for gitk
alias gitk='gitk 2>/dev/null'
#list files only
alias lf='ls -l | grep -v ^d'
@marcedwards
marcedwards / high-dpi-media.css
Last active September 24, 2025 23:32
A CSS media query that captures almost all high DPI aware devices.
/* ---------------------------------------------------------- */
/* */
/* A media query that captures: */
/* */
/* - Retina iOS devices */
/* - Retina Macs running Safari */
/* - High DPI Windows PCs running IE 8 and above */
/* - Low DPI Windows PCs running IE, zoomed in */
/* - Low DPI Windows PCs and Macs running Firefox, zoomed in */
/* - Android hdpi devices and above */

Setup remote git repo on EC2

Create a bare repository

$ mkdir <repo-name>.git
$ cd <repo-name>.git
$ git init --bare
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active October 15, 2025 02:35
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

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.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

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

Lesson's learnt building the Guardian

Below is a collection of my favourite responses I gathered from Guardian engineers when asked the question: What have you learnt starting from scratch and building a mobile-first next generation web platform for the Guardian?

Daithi O Crualaoich

  • Work with great people.
  • Deploy like crazy. This means the team has to control the infrastructure as well as code.
  • Design is not a service. Designers have to sit in the team.
  • Infrastructure is intrinsically unreliable. Discard and replace is the robust strategy.
  • Use your CDN for HTML too.
  • Don't always do as you are told.
@PaulKinlan
PaulKinlan / criticalcss-bookmarklet-devtool-snippet.js
Last active March 12, 2025 01:22
CriticalCSS Bookmarklet and Devtool Snippet.js
(function() {
var CSSCriticalPath = function(w, d, opts) {
var opt = opts || {};
var css = {};
var pushCSS = function(r) {
if(!!css[r.selectorText] === false) css[r.selectorText] = {};
var styles = r.style.cssText.split(/;(?![A-Za-z0-9])/);
for(var i = 0; i < styles.length; i++) {
if(!!styles[i] === false) continue;
var pair = styles[i].split(": ");