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asciimo / gist:5169a17b6d2ed0efcadc4af02a2018ad

Created June 12, 2017 16:48

Typo in https://qz.com/1002655/the-company-behind-wordpress-is-closing-its-gorgeous-san-francisco-office-because-its-employees-never-show-up/

The company maintains similar offices in Cape Town, South Africa, and outside Portland, Maine, and gives employees a $250-a-month stipend if they want to use commercial co-working offices elsewhere.

asciimo / configure_httpd.sh

Last active March 30, 2017 18:07

Shell script to modify httpd.conf to allow mod_rewrite in .htaccess files

	# Update the 2nd instance of AllowOverride, which is in the docroot Directory directive
	perl -pi -e 's{AllowOverride None}{++$n == 1 ? "AllowOverride All" : $&}ge' /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
	# Tack the mod_rewrite module load on to the end of the file
	echo 'LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so' >> /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf

asciimo / requirements.txt

Created October 5, 2016 17:44

Little utility to resize globbed images

	Pillow==3.4.1
	python-resize-image==1.1.3

asciimo / .htaccess

Created August 26, 2016 21:16

Simulate a slow-loading GIF with a redirect to a PHP script.

	# Slow GIF
	RewriteRule ^slowfile.gif$ slowfile.php [L]

asciimo / lazyload.js

Created August 26, 2016 19:50

"Unobtrusive lazy load pattern" from [friendlybit.com](https://friendlybit.com/js/lazy-loading-asyncronous-javascript/).

	(function() {
	function async_load(){
	var s = document.createElement('script');
	s.type = 'text/javascript';
	s.async = true;
	s.src = 'http://yourdomain.com/script.js';
	var x = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
	x.parentNode.insertBefore(s, x);
	}
	if (window.attachEvent)

asciimo / array_intersect.js

Last active December 15, 2017 09:51

ES6 equivalent to PHP's array_intersect()

const intersect = (leftArray, rightArray) => leftArray.filter(value => rightArray.indexOf(value) > -1);

asciimo / template.html

Created August 9, 2016 18:26

Simple html5 document template

	<!doctype html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title><!-- change me --></title>
	<meta name="description" content="">
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
	</head>
	<body>
	<!-- change me -->

asciimo / selenium_ffde.py

Last active July 25, 2016 02:17

Configure custom Firefox Developer Edition path for python3 selenium, on a Mac

	from selenium import webdriver
	from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
	binary = FirefoxBinary("/Applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox")
	browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary)

	# Or, in your terminal session: PATH=$PATH:/Applications/FirefoxDeveloperEdition.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox

asciimo / disco_duck.js

Created December 5, 2015 17:41

Example of a JS object with public/private methods

	// Utility for ducking Discovery under fixed agent navigation bars and ads
	var discoDuck = (function() {

	var _discoveryContainer = $("#discoveryContainer");
	var _proNavBarHeight = $("#navbarAgent").outerHeight();
	var _proCatcherHeight = $("#pro_catcher").outerHeight();
	var _adjustMarginTop = function(pixels, addOrRemove) {
	if(_discoveryContainer.length < 1) {
	return;
	}

asciimo / total_deaths.js

Created October 18, 2015 21:18

Here's an example of how to sum the numeric values in a Wikipedia HTML table column.

	// Written for this Wikipedia page on 2015-10-18:
	// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
	var deaths = 0;
	$("table.wikitable").first().find("tr").each(
	function() {
	var deathsCell = $(this).find("td").first().text();
	var pattern = new RegExp("([\d,,]+)[^\d,,]?")
	deathsNum = parseInt(deathsCell.replace(/,/g, ""), 10);
	if(!isNaN(deathsNum)) {
	deaths += deathsNum;