Josh Dick joshdick

This is my best try at transcribing of the lightning talk I gave at RUG::B on April 2016. Due to poor time management (LOL) the delivery was rushed and some examples were skipped, I hope having them posted here makes them more useful.

xargs

xargs is a small but very useful program that is installed in most if not all of your computers¹. Many of you probably know it. Those who don't will learn something really useful, but those who do will learn a couple of cool tricks, too.

Why xargs

You might have heard about the Unix philosophy:

Read this first!

Hi there! Since this post was originally written, nvm has gained some new tools, and some people have suggested alternative (and potentially better) approaches for modern systems. Make sure to have a look at the comments to this article, before following this guide!

The original article

Trickier than it seems.

Extracting Emoji From Slack!

Slack doesn't provide an easy way to extract custom emoji from a team. (Especially teams with thousands of custom emoji) This Gist walks you through a relatively simple approach to get your emoji out.

If you're an admin of your own team, you can get the list of emoji directly using this API: https://api.slack.com/methods/emoji.list. Once you have it, skip to Step 3

HOWEVER! This gist is intended for people who don't have admin access, nor access tokens for using that list.

Follow along...

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

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.

	CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "unaccent";

	CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION slugify("value" TEXT)
	RETURNS TEXT AS $$
	-- removes accents (diacritic signs) from a given string --
	WITH "unaccented" AS (
	SELECT unaccent("value") AS "value"
	),
	-- lowercases the string
	"lowercase" AS (

	-- TerminalVim.app
	-- This creates a shim Application that will enable you to open files from the Finder in vim using iTerm

	-- To use this script:
	-- 1. Open Automator and create a new Application
	-- 2. Add the "Run Applescript" action
	-- 3. Paste this script into the Run Applescript section
	-- 4. Save the application as TerminalVim.app in your Applications folder
	-- 5. In the Finder, right click on a file and select "Open With". In that window you can set TerminalVim as a default

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	from __future__ import print_function

	import datetime
	import feedparser
	import time
	import os
	import sys
	from six.moves import urllib

	// Source for the Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) T-Shirt:
	// http://www.marco.org/2014/04/29/atp-shirts
	//
	// By Marco Arment, April 28, 2014. MIT license.

	@implementation ATPLogoView

	- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rectIgnored
	{
	NSString *fontName = @"MyriadPro-Semibold";

	The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http,
	https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to
	match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502


	# Single-line version:

	(?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}\|[a-z0-9%])\|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com\|net\|org\|edu\|gov\|mil\|aero\|asia\|biz\|cat\|coop\|info\|int\|jobs\|mobi\|museum\|name\|post\|pro\|tel\|travel\|xxx\|ac\|ad\|ae\|af\|ag\|ai\|al\|am\|an\|ao\|aq\|ar\|as\|at\|au\|aw\|ax\|az\|ba\|bb\|bd\|be\|bf\|bg\|bh\|bi\|bj\|bm\|bn\|bo\|br\|bs\|bt\|bv\|bw\|by\|bz\|ca\|cc\|cd\|cf\|cg\|ch\|ci\|ck\|cl\|cm\|cn\|co\|cr\|cs\|cu\|cv\|cx\|cy\|cz\|dd\|de\|dj\|dk\|dm\|do\|dz\|ec\|ee\|eg\|eh\|er\|es\|et\|eu\|fi\|fj\|fk\|fm\|fo\|fr\|ga\|gb\|gd\|ge\|gf\|gg\|gh\|gi\|gl\|gm\|gn\|gp\|gq\|gr\|gs\|gt\|gu\|gw\|gy\|hk\|hm\|hn\|hr\|ht\|hu\|id\|ie\|il\|im\|in\|io\|iq\|ir\|is\|it\|je\|jm\|jo\|jp\|ke\|kg\|kh\|ki\|km\|kn\|kp\|kr\|kw\|ky\|kz\|la\|lb\|lc\|li\|lk\|lr\|ls\|lt\|lu\|lv\|ly\|ma\|mc\|md\|me\|mg\|mh\|mk\|ml\|mm\|mn\|mo\|mp\|mq\|mr\|ms\|mt\|mu\|mv\|mw\|mx\|my\|mz\|na\|nc\|ne\|nf\|ng\|ni\|nl\|no\|np\|nr\|nu\|nz\|om\|pa\|pe\|pf\|pg\|ph\|pk\|pl\|pm\|pn\|pr\|ps\|pt\|pw\|py\|qa\|re\|ro\|rs\|ru\|rw\|sa\|sb\|sc\|sd\|se\|sg\|sh\|si\|s