Mathieu Darse mdarse

OBSOLETE

This entire guide is based on an old version of Homebrew/Node and no longer applies. It was only ever intended to fix a specific error message which has since been fixed. I've kept it here for historical purposes, but it should no longer be used. Homebrew maintainers have fixed things and the options mentioned don't exist and won't work.

I still believe it is better to manually install npm separately since having a generic package manager maintain another package manager is a bad idea, but the instructions below don't explain how to do that.

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

Installing node through Homebrew can cause problems with npm for globally installed packages. To fix it quickly, use the solution below. An explanation is also included at the end of this document.

How to make faster scroll effects?

Avoid too many reflows (the browser to recalculate everything)
Use advanced CSS3 for graphic card rendering
Precalculate sizes and positions

Beware of reflows

The reflow appens as many times as there are frames per seconds. It recalculate all positions that change in order to diplay them. Basically, when you scroll you execute a function where you move things between two reflows. But there are functions that triggers reflows such as jQuery offset, scroll... So there are two things to take care about when you dynamically change objects in javascript to avoid too many reflows:

OS X Preferences

most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

	var cradle = require('cradle');
	var crypto = require('crypto');

	cradle.setup({
	host: 'foo.cloudant.com',
	port: 80,
	cache: false,
	timeout: 5000
	})

	#!/bin/bash

	function remove_dir () {
	rm -rf "$1_"

	if [ -d "$1" ]
	then
	mv "$1" "$1_"
	fi
	}

	#!/bin/bash

	# Put this file at: .git/hooks/post-checkout
	# and make it executable
	# You can install it system wide too, see http://stackoverflow.com/a/2293578/685587

	PREV_COMMIT=$1
	POST_COMMIT=$2

	NOCOLOR='\e[0m'

	#! /bin/sh
	# Copyright (c) 2012 Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net>
	# All rights reserved.
	#
	# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
	# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
	# are met:
	# 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
	# notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer
	# in this position and unchanged.

	#!/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