Filip Dupanović langri-sha

The case for Gist blogging

Why to bother?

The posts people write in blogs can be classified in two groups:

those that are going to be (or should be) maintained, expressing the real time information (like books one reads or read, todo lists, lecture notes, etc),
those that express the momentary thoughts of a writer on an event or activity.

Maintaining the post

While first ones can be managed using standart blog engines (livejournal, blogger, etc) via «Edit post» option, that’s hardly

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

Deploying a subfolder to GitHub Pages

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.

For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.

Step 1

Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).

Update May 2017

Eric Bidelman has documented some of the common workflows possible with headless Chrome over in https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome.

Update

If you're looking at this in 2016 and beyond, I strongly recommend investigating real headless Chrome: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headless/README.md

Windows and Mac users might find using Justin Ribeiro's Docker setup useful here while full support for these platforms is being worked out.

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.

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# attach-android-source.py - script to attach android source to a SDK folder using symlinks
	# See http://mobilepearls.com/labs/viewing-android-source-code-in-eclipse/
	#
	# Use as:
	# python attach-android-src.py $PATH_TO_SRC $PATH_TO_SDK_PLATFORM
	# where $PATH_TO_SRC is the path to an android source checkout (the folder you run "repo init" in if
	# you follow the instructions on http://source.android.com/source/download.html) and
	# $PATH_TO_SDK_PLATFORM is to a platform folder inside the android sdk folder

	// MIT http://rem.mit-license.org

	function trim(c) {
	var ctx = c.getContext('2d'),
	copy = document.createElement('canvas').getContext('2d'),
	pixels = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, c.width, c.height),
	l = pixels.data.length,
	i,
	bound = {
	top: null,

	function slugify(text)
	{
	return text.toString().toLowerCase()
	.replace(/\s+/g, '-') // Replace spaces with -
	.replace(/[^\w\-]+/g, '') // Remove all non-word chars
	.replace(/\-\-+/g, '-') // Replace multiple - with single -
	.replace(/^-+/, '') // Trim - from start of text
	.replace(/-+$/, ''); // Trim - from end of text
	}

	# Example of .jrubyrc

	# Set compilation mode. JIT = at runtime; FORCE = before execution. (JIT, FORCE, OFF, OFFIR)
	# compile.mode = FORCE

	# Dump to console all bytecode generated at runtime.
	# compile.dump = true

	# Enable verbose JIT logging (reports failed compilation)
	# jit.logging.verbose = true

	PhantomJS (has the engine webkit)
	download from the page http://phantomjs.org/download.html

	and then in terminal
	$ cd /usr/local/share/
	$ sudo wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
	$ sudo tar jxvf phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
	$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64/ /usr/local/share/phantomjs
	$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs