nepsilon / gist:7562120

Last active December 28, 2015 21:09

Font size px to em reference table with 16px as default font size.

Font size table

Browser default 16px

pixels	relative
36px	2.25em
31px	0.5161em
24px	1.5em
21px	1.3125em

nepsilon / business-models.md

Created July 23, 2014 15:26 — forked from ndarville/business-models.md

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

nepsilon / using-auto-backup-vim.md

Last active February 24, 2022 15:21

Using auto backup with Vim — First published in fullweb.io issue #3

Using auto backup with Vim

Not using versioning on your configuration files and editing them with Vim? Use Vim’s backup option to automatically keep a copy of past versions:

To put in your ~/.vimrc:

"Turn on backup option
set backup

nepsilon / serve-file-network-http-server.md

Last active May 7, 2017 09:03

How to quickly serve files or directories over the network — First published in fullweb.io issue #4

Quick web server to serve files on your LAN

Need to quickly serve files over the network? Or even a full directory? Here is how to do with Python, PHP and NodeJs:

With Python 2.x:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

nepsilon / mix-of-bash-zsh-goodies.md

Last active July 12, 2016 07:06

A mix of bash/zsh goodies — First published in fullweb.io issue #5

A mix of bash/zsh goodies

Expansion:

# same as mv file.txt file.md:
$ mv file.{txt,md}

Back to your previous working directory:

nepsilon / git-stash.md

Last active May 18, 2017 08:44

Ever started working on the wrong branch with Git? — First published in fullweb.io issue #6

Git stash

Ever started working on the wrong branch with Git? Use gist stash! Here is how to proceed in 3 steps:

1. Use stash to detach unstaged changes:

$ git stash

nepsilon / 4-npm-tips.md

Last active July 12, 2016 07:00

4 npm tips — First published in fullweb.io issue #8

4 `npm` tips

Node npm is certainly one of the best package manager out there. Here are some awesome tips you may not know:

1. Find a module owner:

$ npm owner ls packagename

2. Open the GitHub issues page:

nepsilon / search-inside-file-with-grep.md

Last active February 19, 2017 12:37

Search inside your files with grep — First published in fullweb.io issue #10

Search inside your files with `grep`

See how to use grep to find what you’re looking for inside files:

grep is case sensitive by default use -i to turn this off:

$ grep -i pattern file

Search recursively into a folder:

nepsilon / find-stuff-with-locate-tips.md

Last active July 12, 2016 06:48

Find your stuff with locate — First published in fullweb.io issue #11

Find your stuff with `locate`

Following on last week grep tips, let’s see how to use locate to search for files on your Linux machine. The locate command is faster than find because it uses a database, whereas find will scan the file system every time.

locate uses a database, you first need to build it with:

$ sudo updatedb

nepsilon / 5-netstat-tips.md

Last active February 19, 2017 12:37

5 netstat tips — First published in fullweb.io issue #12

5 netstat tips

netstat has some very neat features we could make use of more often! Here is 5.

Note: examples here may not apply to BSD based systems

1. The classic: list local listening TCP/UDP ports and their process:

$ sudo netstat -tulpn

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