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I recently had the need to write a small url shortening application. I am aware that this problem has been solved quite a few times before, but what is being a developer if not reinventing the wheel just for the heck of it? Custom CMS anyone?

Knowing that this was going to be a tiny RESTful API and also knowing that Laravel 5.2 had API rate limiting built in, I was eager to give it a try. Taylor Otwell being Taylor Otwell shipped 5.2 with the rate limiting defaults set up out of the box and I had my application building out short url's in a matter of minutes. The problem for me came when I wanted to start associating those short urls with a user.

Typically my applications have a UI and authentication is done through a simple login page. Obviously for a RESTful API, having a login page isn't ideal. Instead, my hope was to have users append an api_token to the end of their query string and use that to auth

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

	/*
	SETTINGS

	All theme settings can be modified here.
	You shouldn’t need to dive into any of the other sections
	unless you plan on doing things beyond changing colors and fonts. */

	body {
	--font: sans-serif;
	--toot-font: var(--font); /* Modify if different from the interface font */

	if (!Array.prototype.find) {
	Array.prototype.find = function(predicate) {
	if (this == null) {
	throw new TypeError('Array.prototype.find called on null or undefined');
	}
	if (typeof predicate !== 'function') {
	throw new TypeError('predicate must be a function');
	}
	var list = Object(this);
	var length = list.length >>> 0;

	# For example, run "npm install"
	docker run -v "$PWD":/usr/src/app -w /usr/src/app node:4 npm install

	# This command creates a container (downloading one first if you don't have it locally), runs the command in a current directory and quits the container
	# Great Success!

	#!/bin/bash

	if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	echo "Usage: git pr [clean] [<remote>] <id-or-url>"
	echo ""
	echo "Examples:"
	echo "git pr 42 --> git fetch origin pull/42/head:pr/origin/42"
	echo "git pr upstream 42 --> git fetch upstream pull/42/head:pr/upstream/42"
	echo "git pr https://github.com/peerigon/phridge/pull/1 --> git fetch https://github.com/peerigon/phridge.git pull/1/head:pr/peerigon/phridge/1"
	echo "git pr clean --> Deletes all branches that match pr// and pr///*"

	curl -O https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
	unzip latest.zip
	mv wordpress site
	rm latest.zip

	/**
	* Simple jQuery plugin that replaces $.click with a mobile-responsive version
	* that doesn't break scrolling.
	*/
	(function($){
	$.fn.extend({
	clickTouch: function(handler) {
	return this.each(function() {
	var touchedWithoutScroll = false;
	var self = $(this);