James Wyse jameswyse

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

Virtual DOM and diffing algorithm

There was a [great article][1] about how react implements it's virtual DOM. There are some really interesting ideas in there but they are deeply buried in the implementation of the React framework.

However, it's possible to implement just the virtual DOM and diff algorithm on it's own as a set of independent modules.

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

NOTE: the list has moved to https://github.com/sketchplugins/plugin-directory

Sketch Plugins

A list of Sketch plugins hosted at GitHub, in no particular order.

brandonbeecroft/Lorem-Ipsum-Plugin-for-Sketch This is a plugin for quickly creating Lorem Ipsum text in Sketch
sebj/Sketch Templates and Plugins for Sketch by Bohemian Coding
FredericJacobs/crop_Artboard A script to export the Sketch App artboards to the clipboard
almonk/SketchGit A simple Git client built right into Sketch.

Install the latest JRE from Oracle
In the Java Control Panel, go to the Security tab and make sure 'Enable Java Content' is checked
Open Safari
Go to the ATO Business portal site https://bp.ato.gov.au/BpStatics/homepage.htm
Click Login
A dialog will apear asking you 'Do you want to trust the website “authentication.business.gov.au” to use the “Java” plug-in?'
Click 'Trust'
Now you will be asked 'Do you want to run this application?'
Click 'Run'
Another dialog will appear asking you to 'Allow access to the following application from this website?'

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

	// Let's look at a snippet from a React example here: http://facebook.github.io/react/

	// -----------------------------

	// This is how you build the React virtual DOM with plain JavaScript.
	return (
	React.DOM.div(null,
	React.DOM.h3(null, "TODO"),
	TodoList({items:this.state.items}),
	React.DOM.form({onSubmit:this.handleSubmit},

	var gulp = require('gulp');
	var browserify = require('gulp-browserify');
	var concat = require('gulp-concat');
	var styl = require('gulp-styl');
	var refresh = require('gulp-livereload');
	var lr = require('tiny-lr');
	var server = lr();

	var paths = {
	js: 'src/*/.js',

	/**
	* Pushover plugin for the uptime project - https://github.com/fzaninotto/uptime
	* Thanks to DMathieu for the Campfire plugin which I basically hacked up to make this
	* work: https://gist.github.com/dmathieu/5592418
	*
	* This index.js files goes to a directory `plugins/pushover` in your installation of uptime.
	*
	* Notifies all events (up, down, paused, restarted) to pushover
	*
	* This plugin has a dependency on `pushover-notifications`.

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048