isaacs

// See comments below.

// This code sample and justification brought to you by
// Isaac Z. Schlueter, aka isaacs

// standard style
var a = "ape",
  b = "bat",
  c = "cat",
  d = "dog",

mayoff

(* To the extent possible under law, Rob Mayoff has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to “AppleScript to make Google Chrome open/reload a URL”. This work is published from: United States. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ *)
tell application "Google Chrome"
	activate
	set theUrl to "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl"
	
	if (count every window) = 0 then
		make new window
	end if
	
	set found to false

textarcana

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Use this one-liner to produce a JSON literal from the Git log:

git log \
    --pretty=format:'{%n  "commit": "%H",%n  "author": "%aN <%aE>",%n  "date": "%ad",%n  "message": "%f"%n},' \
    $@ | \
    perl -pe 'BEGIN{print "["}; END{print "]\n"}' | \
    perl -pe 's/},]/}]/'

coolaj86

Getting Started with NPM (as a developer)

As easy as 1, 2, 3!

Updated:

• Aug, 08, 2022 update config docs for npm 8+
• Jul 27, 2021 add private scopes
• Jul 22, 2021 add dist tags
• Jun 20, 2021 update for --access=public
• Sep 07, 2020 update docs for npm version

nathggns

@mixin stroke($width, $color) {
	$shadow: 0 0 0 transparent;
	$i: 0;

	@while ($i < $width) {
		$i: $i + 1;
		$j: 0;

		@while ($j < 2) {
			$j: $j + 1;

niallo

/*
 * parse_link_header()
 *
 * Parse the Github Link HTTP header used for pageination
 * http://developer.github.com/v3/#pagination
 */
function parse_link_header(header) {
  if (header.length == 0) {
    throw new Error("input must not be of zero length");
  }

balupton

// Create our server
var server;
server = http.createServer(function(req,res){
	// Set CORS headers
	res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
	res.setHeader('Access-Control-Request-Method', '*');
	res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'OPTIONS, GET');
	res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', '*');
	if ( req.method === 'OPTIONS' ) {
		res.writeHead(200);

domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.

CatTail

// encode(decode) html text into html entity
var decodeHtmlEntity = function(str) {
  return str.replace(/&#(\d+);/g, function(match, dec) {
    return String.fromCharCode(dec);
  });
};

var encodeHtmlEntity = function(str) {
  var buf = [];
  for (var i=str.length-1;i>=0;i--) {

dergachev

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.

Instructions

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