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mikermcneil / disabling-macosx-notification-center.md
Last active February 15, 2025 09:06
Disable/Enable Notification Center (MacOS X)

Toggle MacOS X Notification Center on or off

This gist is to remind me (and anyone else who it helps) how to quickly disable and re-enable Notification Center.

Set Up Bash Aliases

Installation

  1. Open your terminal (<⌘ + ␣ (spacebar)>, then type "terminal", then press <↩ (enter)>).
@octocat
octocat / .gitignore
Created February 27, 2014 19:38
Some common .gitignore configurations
# Compiled source #
###################
*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so
# Packages #
@gitaarik
gitaarik / git_submodules.md
Last active May 4, 2025 16:01
Git Submodules basic explanation

Git Submodules basic explanation

Why submodules?

In Git you can add a submodule to a repository. This is basically a repository embedded in your main repository. This can be very useful. A couple of usecases of submodules:

  • Separate big codebases into multiple repositories.
@kevin-smets
kevin-smets / iterm2-solarized.md
Last active May 15, 2025 02:02
iTerm2 + Oh My Zsh + Solarized color scheme + Source Code Pro Powerline + Font Awesome + [Powerlevel10k] - (macOS)

Default

Default

Powerlevel10k

Powerlevel10k

@eerne
eerne / makeapp.sh
Last active November 20, 2024 19:30 — forked from demonbane/makeapp.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "What should the Application be called (no spaces allowed e.g. GCal)?"
read inputline
name="$inputline"
echo "What is the url (e.g. https://www.google.com/calendar/render)?"
read inputline
url="$inputline"
@mobilemind
mobilemind / git-tag-delete-local-and-remote.sh
Last active April 22, 2025 20:08
how to delete a git tag locally and remote
# delete local tag '12345'
git tag -d 12345
# delete remote tag '12345' (eg, GitHub version too)
git push origin :refs/tags/12345
# alternative approach
git push --delete origin tagName
git tag -d tagName
@arunoda
arunoda / gist:7790979
Last active March 13, 2025 14:30
Installing SSHPass

Installing SSHPASS

SSHPass is a tiny utility, which allows you to provide the ssh password without using the prompt. This will very helpful for scripting. SSHPass is not good to use in multi-user environment. If you use SSHPass on your development machine, it don't do anything evil.

Installing on Ubuntu

apt-get install sshpass

Installing on OS X

@irazasyed
irazasyed / homebrew-permissions-issue.md
Last active January 25, 2025 15:00
Homebrew: Permissions Denied Issue Fix (OS X / macOS)

Homebrew Permissions Denied Issues Solution

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

@maxim
maxim / rails_load_path_tips.md
Last active January 9, 2025 00:59
How to use rails load paths, app, and lib directories.

In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

@stuartsierra
stuartsierra / fresh-chrome.sh
Last active May 10, 2025 11:01
Launch new instances of Google Chrome on OS X with isolated cache, cookies, and user config
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# fresh-chrome
#
# Use this script on OS X to launch a new instance of Google Chrome
# with its own empty cache, cookies, and user configuration.
#
# The first time you run this script, it will launch a new Google
# Chrome instance with a permanent user-data directory, which you can
# customize below. Perform any initial setup you want to keep on every