I have a lot of people at Hacker Hours ask about where to look for jobs - here are some places I recommend.
- AngelList (startups)
- Authentic Jobs
- Craigslist (mostly freelance)
- Digital DUMBO (NYC-specific)
- Github
- Idealist (social good)
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gruber
/ Liberal Regex Pattern for All URLs
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October 25, 2025 19:13
Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching All URLs
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| The regex patterns in this gist are intended to match any URLs, | |
| including "mailto:[email protected]", "x-whatever://foo", etc. For a | |
| pattern that attempts only to match web URLs (http, https), see: | |
| https://gist.github.com/gruber/8891611 | |
| # Single-line version of pattern: | |
| (?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’])) |
njvitto
/ deploy.rake
Created
April 11, 2010 16:56
— forked from RSpace/deploy.rake
Rakefile to deploy and rollback to Heroku in two different environments (staging and production) for the same app
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| #Deploy and rollback on Heroku in staging and production | |
| task :deploy_staging => ['deploy:set_staging_app', 'deploy:push', 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:tag'] | |
| task :deploy_production => ['deploy:set_production_app', 'deploy:push', 'deploy:restart', 'deploy:tag'] | |
| namespace :deploy do | |
| PRODUCTION_APP = 'YOUR_PRODUCTION_APP_NAME_ON_HEROKU' | |
| STAGING_APP = 'YOUR_STAGING_APP_NAME_ON_HEROKU' | |
| task :staging_migrations => [:set_staging_app, :push, :off, :migrate, :restart, :on, :tag] | |
| task :staging_rollback => [:set_staging_app, :off, :push_previous, :restart, :on] |
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| =Navigating= | |
| visit('/projects') | |
| visit(post_comments_path(post)) | |
| =Clicking links and buttons= | |
| click_link('id-of-link') | |
| click_link('Link Text') | |
| click_button('Save') | |
| click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button | |
| click('Button Value') |
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # bash 3.2.25(1) Ubuntu 7.10 Date : 2012-02-15 | |
| # | |
| # _______________| freqy : sort and order lines by frequency of appearance. | |
| # | |
| # Usage: freqy [optional: file(s)] | |
| # | |
| # Notes: Will work in a pipe. | |
| # Does not alter the file(s) themselves. | |
| # |
tfausak
/ ios-8-web-app.html
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iOS 8 web app http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/01/27/ios-8-web-apps/
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| <!doctype html> | |
| <!-- http://taylor.fausak.me/2015/01/27/ios-8-web-apps/ --> | |
| <html> | |
| <head> | |
| <title>iOS 8 web app</title> | |
| <!-- CONFIGURATION --> |
joshsusser
/ silence_assets.rb
Created
April 17, 2012 22:34
put in config/initializers to silence asset logging in Rails development mode
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| if Rails.env.development? | |
| Rails.application.assets.logger = Logger.new('/dev/null') | |
| Rails::Rack::Logger.class_eval do | |
| def call_with_quiet_assets(env) | |
| previous_level = Rails.logger.level | |
| Rails.logger.level = Logger::ERROR if env['PATH_INFO'] =~ %r{^/assets/} | |
| call_without_quiet_assets(env) | |
| ensure |
eliotsykes
/ asset_server_middleware.rb
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December 20, 2015 01:29
*****
Checkout the rack-zippy gem, I recommend it over this gist, find it at https://github.com/eliotsykes/rack-zippy
***** An asset server for Rails 3.2.x that serves asset pipeline precompiled assets to clients, including those elusive gzipped (.gz) assets. Sadly Rails' own ActionDispatch::Static middleware does not take care of serving gzippe…
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| # 1. Add rack-rewrite to your Gemfile and run 'bundle install': | |
| # gem 'rack-rewrite' | |
| # | |
| # 2. Create a file with the contents below in config/initializers/asset_server_middleware.rb | |
| # | |
| # 3. Rename 'YourApp' below | |
| # | |
| # 4. In config/environments/production.rb and config/environments/test.rb, set: | |
| # config.serve_static_assets = true | |
| # config.assets.compile = false |
PWSdelta
/ rspec_model_testing_template.rb
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July 29, 2025 13:52
Rails Rspec model testing skeleton & cheat sheet using rspec-rails, shoulda-matchers, shoulda-callbacks, and factory_girl_rails. Pretty much a brain dump of examples of what you can (should?) test in a model. Pick & choose what you like, and please let me know if there are any errors or new/changed features out there. Reddit comment thread: http…
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| # This is a skeleton for testing models including examples of validations, callbacks, | |
| # scopes, instance & class methods, associations, and more. | |
| # Pick and choose what you want, as all models don't NEED to be tested at this depth. | |
| # | |
| # I'm always eager to hear new tips & suggestions as I'm still new to testing, | |
| # so if you have any, please share! | |
| # | |
| # This skeleton also assumes you're using the following gems: | |
| # | |
| # rspec-rails: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails |
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