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5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

The hottest repositories created in the last week.
The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
Issue trends by language.
Clojure projects defying convention.

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:

var Article = require('../../../models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

Tabs and Windows

Function	Shortcut
Previous Tab	`⌘`+ `Left Arrow`
Next Tab	`⌘`+ `Right Arrow`
Go to Tab	`⌘` + `Number`
Go to Window	`⌘` + `Option` + `Number`
Go to Split Pane by Direction	`⌘` + `Option` + `Arrow`
Go to Split Pane by Order of Use	`⌘` + `]` , `⌘` + `[`

Vimdiff cheet sheets.

##Git mergetool.

$ git config --global merge.tool=vimdiff

##vimdiff key mappings.

Use brew to install the ModSecurity Apache module.

brew install homebrew/apache/mod_security

Ask Apache to load the module by editing the configuration file (at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf). Under the long list of LoadModule statements, add:

LoadModule security2_module /usr/local/Cellar/mod_security/2.7.7/libexec/mod_security2.so

While you are at it, load the mod_unique_id module as well. This is required by ModSecurity. Do so by uncommenting the line:

	// DON'T FORGET TO IMPORT proxy.conf TOO

	[General]
	loglevel = notify
	skip-proxy = 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12,127.0.0.0/24
	bypass-tun = 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12,127.0.0.0/24

	// DNS OVERRIDE, REMOVE # IF YOU NEED
	# dns-server = 223.6.6.6,223.5.5.5,114.114.114.114,114.114.115.115

	[General]
	# warning, notify, info, verbose
	loglevel = notify
	bypass-system = true
	skip-proxy = 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, localhost, *.local
	bypass-tun = 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12
	dns-server = 114.114.114.114,119.29.29.29,8.8.8.8

	[Proxy]
	# http, https, socks5

	# This config file was created for myself (@janlay). You may want to add or remove some rules to make efficient use of the Internet.

	# This file depends on the main.conf which defines your own proxy.
	# Your main.conf will look like this:
	# ---- START ----
	# #!PROXY-OVERRIDE:rules.conf
	# [Proxy]
	# Proxy = https,server.address,port,username,password
	# ---- END ----
	#

	echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
	. ~/.bashrc
	mkdir ~/local
	mkdir ~/node-latest-install
	cd ~/node-latest-install
	curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz \| tar xz --strip-components=1
	./configure --prefix=~/local
	make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
	curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh \| sh

	// this is the background code...

	// listen for our browerAction to be clicked
	chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener(function (tab) {
	// for the current tab, inject the "inject.js" file & execute it
	chrome.tabs.executeScript(tab.ib, {
	file: 'inject.js'
	});
	});