This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.
To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:
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dommmel
/ create_gallery.rb
Created
October 21, 2012 15:18
Turns a folder of images into an html gallery (optimized for mobile safari). Useful for previewing designs of mobile websites. Just put the generated gallery into dropbox and mail the link to the index.html file to the client.
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| #! /usr/bin/env ruby | |
| require 'fileutils' | |
| require 'erb' | |
| require 'RMagick' | |
| include Magick | |
| template = ERB.new <<-EOF | |
| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html> |
alexpos
/ brettquix.txt
Created
October 22, 2012 13:47
— forked from ttscoff/brettquix.txt
Brett's Quix File
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| @Brett's searches | |
| @Brett's custom searches | |
| go https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21%20%s Open first result (DuckDuckGo) | |
| b https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21%s Bang search (DuckDuckGo) | |
| grep https://www.cueup.com/?q=%s&fq=1 Greplin | |
| ss https://duckduckgo.com/site:%d%20%s Current site (DuckDuckGo) | |
| bt https://duckduckgo.com/site:brettterpstra.com%20%s BrettTerpstra.com (DuckDuckGo) | |
| gh http://github.com/search?q=%s&type=Everything&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1 Search GitHub (everything) | |
| hints http://hints.macworld.com/search.php?query=%s&keyType=all&datestart=&dateend=&topic=0&type=stories&results=50&mode=search Search Mac OS X Hints | |
| mu http://www.macupdate.com/find/mac/%s Search MacUpdate (Software) |
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| ;SMBDIS.ASM - A COMPREHENSIVE SUPER MARIO BROS. DISASSEMBLY | |
| ;by doppelganger ([email protected]) | |
| ;This file is provided for your own use as-is. It will require the character rom data | |
| ;and an iNES file header to get it to work. | |
| ;There are so many people I have to thank for this, that taking all the credit for | |
| ;myself would be an unforgivable act of arrogance. Without their help this would | |
| ;probably not be possible. So I thank all the peeps in the nesdev scene whose insight into | |
| ;the 6502 and the NES helped me learn how it works (you guys know who you are, there's no |
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| $('#securityCode').bind('paste', function() { | |
| var el = this; | |
| setTimeout(function() { | |
| el.value = el.value.replace(/\D/g, ''); | |
| }, 0); | |
| }); |
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| javascript:(function () { | |
| var selected = getSelection().toString(); | |
| if (selected !== "") selected = '"...\n'+selected+'\n..."\n'; | |
| location.href = 'mailto:?SUBJECT='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'&BODY='+encodeURIComponent('\n'+location.href+'\n'+selected); | |
| })() |
dergachev
/ GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active
October 26, 2025 18:48
OS X Screencast to animated GIF
stephenhardy
/ git-clearHistory
Created
April 26, 2013 22:14
Steps to clear out the history of a git/github repository
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| -- Remove the history from | |
| rm -rf .git | |
| -- recreate the repos from the current content only | |
| git init | |
| git add . | |
| git commit -m "Initial commit" | |
| -- push to the github remote repos ensuring you overwrite history | |
| git remote add origin [email protected]:<YOUR ACCOUNT>/<YOUR REPOS>.git |
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| javascript:(function () { | |
| var selection = window.getSelection().toString(); | |
| var anchor = selection ? selection : document.title; | |
| void(prompt('', '[' + anchor + '](' + location.href + ')')); | |
| })(); |
willurd
/ web-servers.md
Last active
October 30, 2025 23:18
Big list of http static server one-liners
Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
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| var request = require('request') | |
| , path = require('path') | |
| , fs = require('fs') | |
| , url = "https://api.github.com/users/thomastraum/gists" | |
| , savepath = './gists'; | |
| request(url, function (error, response, body) { | |
| if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) { |