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Starting VNC automatically on a Raspberry Pi

sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
vncserver :1 -geometry 1280x800 -depth 16 -pixelformat rgb565

• Set up a password for access (optional)

sudo vi /etc/init.d/tightvncserver

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/*
 * Gridism
 * A simple, responsive, and handy CSS grid by @cobyism
 * https://github.com/cobyism/gridism
 */

/* Preserve some sanity */
.grid,
.unit {
  -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;

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Design workflow Q&A

James Kirkpatrick sent me some questions about designing in the browser, and design workflows in general to help with his dissertation at the University of Ulster. Here are my responses.

Question: Do you feel that designing in browser is fast becoming the standard in web design, or do you feel that there will still be a few die-hard designers that will refuse to adopt the idea?

I think it is definitely on its way to becoming the standard, especially with the improvements in the pipeline in terms of what’s possible within developer tools (source-map support for Sass, CoffeeScript and so forth). It’s not catching on as quickly as I feel it should be though (given the benefits I feel it has), and honestly I feel like that’s simply because it’s hard for people to drop the tools they know and love cold-turkey. It can take a while to adjust to new tools and workflows, and to be able to afford the time in-between where you just have to accept that you won’t be as productive as usual is

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Creating a bootable macOS USB installer

• First, plug in an 8GB (or bigger) USB drive, and use Disk Utility to erase it
• If you use the default settings, you should wind up with a blank drive at /Volumes/Untitled.

With that volume in place, and with the macOS installer sitting in /Applications/Install\ macOS\ [VERSION].app, run the following command in your terminal to create a bootable install media (for Sierra):

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app --nointeraction

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#####################################
# Rake tasks for Heroku Deployments #
#####################################
#
# Assumptions:
# - You’re using Heroku to deploy a Rails application or similar.
# - You have two remotes, one called 'production', and one called 'staging'.
# - You have a 'master' branch, and it usually contains stable code.
#
# Usage:

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diff --git a/jekyll-logo.svg b/jekyll-logo.svg
index d448ed7..64bf54b 100644
--- a/jekyll-logo.svg
+++ b/jekyll-logo.svg
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 		</i:pgfRef>
 	</foreignObject>
 	<g i:extraneous="self">
-		<g id="logo-bg-dark">
+		<g id="logo-bg-dark" display="none">

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An example use-case

I’m a noob about python dependency management—here’s what’s confusing me. Using virtualenvwrapper, with no existing venvs, let’s say I create a new directory and save a copy of the system packages I have installed with pip:

coby at vulcan in ~/tmp
➜ mkdir python-test && cd python-test
 
coby at vulcan in ~/tmp/python-test
➜ pip freeze > system-requirements.txt

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#!/bin/bash
# Run the same Heroku command on `production` and `staging` remotes,
# and then diff the output.
if [ `git remote | grep production | wc -l ` == "1" ] && \
  [ `git remote | grep staging | wc -l ` == "1" ]; then
  echo "As you wish..."
  command=""
  for var in "$@"
  do
    command=$command"$var "

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var my_teams   = ["@github/css", "@github/design"] // Add any teams you want autodetected to this list
var base_label = ["GitHub"]

var my_teams_regex = new RegExp('(' + my_teams.join('|') + ')')

function GitHubThread(thread) {
  this._thread = thread

  // Determine why we got this message and label the thread accordingly.
  //

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# make this URL an endpoint that returns something like the users.json file in this gist.
baseUrl = "…"

robot.respond /remote me/i, (msg) ->
  if Math.random() < 0.01
    msg.send "https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1476/552951/f1a15572-c370-11e2-8ddd-db568c36d27a.jpg"
    return
  msg.finish()
  msg.http(baseUrl)
    .headers(headers)