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branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active March 27, 2026 02:24
Better local require() paths for Node.js

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

@sindresorhus
sindresorhus / post-merge
Last active January 17, 2026 16:21
git hook to run a command after `git pull` if a specified file was changed.In this example it's used to run `npm install` if package.json changed and `bower install` if `bower.json` changed.Run `chmod +x post-merge` to make it executable then put it into `.git/hooks/`.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# MIT © Sindre Sorhus - sindresorhus.com
# git hook to run a command after `git pull` if a specified file was changed
# Run `chmod +x post-merge` to make it executable then put it into `.git/hooks/`.
changed_files="$(git diff-tree -r --name-only --no-commit-id ORIG_HEAD HEAD)"
check_run() {
echo "$changed_files" | grep --quiet "$1" && eval "$2"
@irazasyed
irazasyed / homebrew-permissions-issue.md
Last active February 3, 2026 00:43
Homebrew: Permissions Denied Issue Fix (OS X / macOS)

Homebrew Permissions Denied Issues Solution

sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*

@alicial
alicial / mock-service-example.js
Last active June 10, 2019 14:26
AngularJS: Setting up a mocked service to use in controller unit tests.
// Mocked Service
angular.module('mock.users', []).
factory('UserService', function($q) {
var userService = {};
userService.get = function() {
return {
id: 8888,
name: "test user"
}
@lisamelton
lisamelton / transcode-video.sh
Last active April 29, 2025 20:17
Transcode video file (works best with Blu-ray or DVD rip) into MP4 (or optionally Matroska) format, with configuration and at bitrate similar to popular online downloads.
#!/bin/bash
#
# transcode-video.sh
#
# Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Don Melton
#
about() {
cat <<EOF
$program 5.13 of April 8, 2015
@hofmannsven
hofmannsven / README.md
Last active February 24, 2026 02:03
Git CLI Cheatsheet
@bradmontgomery
bradmontgomery / install-comodo-ssl-cert-for-nginx.rst
Last active March 27, 2026 06:36
Steps to install a Comodo PositiveSSL certificate with Nginx.

Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

@jed
jed / how-to-set-up-stress-free-ssl-on-os-x.md
Last active February 24, 2026 02:07
How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

  • Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

  • Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

@raelgc
raelgc / Email Server (Linux, Unix, Mac).md
Last active January 7, 2026 16:05
Setup a Local Only SMTP Email Server (Linux, Unix, Mac)

Setup a Local Only SMTP Email Server (Linux, Unix, Mac)

1 - Point localhost.com to your machine

Most of programs will not accept an email using just @localhost as domain. So, edit /etc/hosts file to make the domain localhost.com point to your machine, including this content to the file:

127.0.0.1 localhost.com

2 - Install Postfix