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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:

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.
Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	##
	# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# install it:
	# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh \| sh
	#

	<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ../thumb.php [QSA,L]
	</IfModule>

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

	<?php

	$files = array_slice($argv, 1);

	foreach ($files as $file) {
	$picture = file_get_contents($file);
	$size = getimagesize($file);

	// base64 encode the binary data, then break it into chunks according to RFC 2045 semantics
	$base64 = chunk_split(base64_encode($picture));

	#!/bin/sh
	#takes one argument/parameter: the name of the package which didn't install correctly and should be removed along with its dependencies
	#do opkg update first
	#example: ./opkgremovepartlyinstalledpackage.sh pulseaudio-daemon

	#get list of all packages that would be installed along with package x
	opkg update
	PACKAGES=`opkg --force-space --noaction install $1 \| grep http \| cut -f 2 -d ' ' \| sed 's/.$//'`
	for i in $PACKAGES
	do

	[master] $ git branch -D topic
	[master] $ git reflog expire --expire=now --all
	[master] $ git gc --aggressive --prune=now
	[master] $ git repack -a -d -l

	/**
	* Converts an RGB color value to HSL. Conversion formula
	* adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_color_space.
	* Assumes r, g, and b are contained in the set [0, 255] and
	* returns h, s, and l in the set [0, 1].
	*
	* @param Number r The red color value
	* @param Number g The green color value
	* @param Number b The blue color value
	* @return Array The HSL representation