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@isaacs
isaacs / node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
Last active April 14, 2025 11:07
Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
@kevinSuttle
kevinSuttle / meta-tags.md
Last active May 17, 2025 12:09 — forked from lancejpollard/meta-tags.md
List of Usable HTML Meta and Link Tags
@yuvadm
yuvadm / client.ovpn
Created June 7, 2012 19:47
OpenVPN Installation on Ubuntu 12.04
##############################################
# Sample client-side OpenVPN 2.0 config file #
# for connecting to multi-client server. #
# #
# This configuration can be used by multiple #
# clients, however each client should have #
# its own cert and key files. #
# #
# On Windows, you might want to rename this #
# file so it has a .ovpn extension #
@brandonb927
brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active May 9, 2025 18:09
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/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
@adelevie
adelevie / custom_cell.rb
Created November 17, 2012 18:26
Programmatically customize UITableViewCells in RubyMotion
# code inspired from http://jainmarket.blogspot.com/2009/05/creating-custom-table-view-cell.html
class CustomCell < UITableViewCell
attr_accessor :primaryLabel
attr_accessor :secondaryLabel
def createLabels
@primaryLabel = UILabel.alloc.init
@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active February 27, 2025 10:00
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@n1k0
n1k0 / 404checker.js
Created January 11, 2013 10:55
A CasperJS script to check for 404 & 500 internal links on a given website
/**
* This casper scipt checks for 404 internal links for a given root url.
*
* Usage:
*
* $ casperjs 404checker.js http://mysite.tld/
* $ casperjs 404checker.js http://mysite.tld/ --max-depth=42
*/
/*global URI*/
@lis186
lis186 / Gruntfile.js
Created June 27, 2013 08:42
Grunt script that generate view (app/views/*.xml) and style(app/styles/*.tss) from jade(app/views/.jade) in Titanium Alloy project.
module.exports = function(grunt) {
function getJadeFiles(srcdir, destdir, wildcard) {
var path = require('path');
var files = {};
grunt.file.expand({cwd: srcdir}, wildcard).forEach(function(relpath) {
files[path.join(destdir, relpath.replace('.jade','.xml'))] = path.join(srcdir, relpath);
});
return files;
@drawveloper
drawveloper / compress-pdf-with-gs.md
Created August 30, 2013 14:39
Compress PDF files with ghostscript

This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.

ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Other options for PDFSETTINGS:

  • /screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
  • /ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
  • /printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
  • /prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.
@millermedeiros
millermedeiros / osx_setup.md
Last active March 23, 2025 01:23
Mac OS X setup

Setup Mac OS X

I've done the same process every couple years since 2013 (Mountain Lion, Mavericks, High Sierra, Catalina) and I updated the Gist each time I've done it.

I kinda regret for not using something like Boxen (or anything similar) to automate the process, but TBH I only actually needed to these steps once every couple years...