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@katowulf
katowulf / FirebaseMonitor.js
Last active January 6, 2024 04:19
Listen for Firebase events and survive authentication logouts and restarts.
/**
* This little helper is called instead of on() to monitor data and handle auth expiration
* It assumes that you monitor authentication state and re-auth if
* your auth token expires. It also doesn't help with any transactions, set ops, or
* other writes which could be in progress when authentication is lost--those will
* explode in glorious flashes of failure
*
* To support IE8, you will want these polyfills:
* forEach: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/forEach#Polyfill
* indexOf: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/indexOf#Polyfill
@xeoncross
xeoncross / ajax.js
Last active August 3, 2023 06:06
Simple, cross-browser Javascript POST/GET xhr request object. Supports request data and proper AJAX headers.
/**
* IE 5.5+, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari XHR object
*
* @param string url
* @param object callback
* @param mixed data
* @param null x
*/
function ajax(url, callback, data, x) {
try {
@brianc
brianc / gist:6908287
Created October 9, 2013 21:00

Using pg.connect is the way to go in a web environment.

PostgreSQL server can only handle 1 query at a time per conenction. That means if you have 1 global new pg.Client() connected to your backend your entire app is bottleknecked based on how fast postgres can respond to queries. It literally will line everything up, queuing each query. Yeah, it's async and so that's alright...but wouldn't you rather multiply your throughput by 10x? Use pg.connect set the pg.defaults.poolSize to something sane (we do 25-100, not sure the right number yet).

new pg.Client is for when you know what you're doing. When you need a single long lived client for some reason or need to very carefully control the life-cycle. A good example of this is when using LISTEN/NOTIFY. The listening client needs to be around and connected and not shared so it can properly handle NOTIFY messages. Other example would be when opening up a 1-off client to kill some hung stuff or in command line scripts.

@JeffreyWay
JeffreyWay / .vimrc
Last active November 1, 2024 18:35
My .vimrc file
set nocompatible " Disable vi-compatibility
set t_Co=256
colorscheme xoria256
set guifont=menlo\ for\ powerline:h16
set guioptions-=T " Removes top toolbar
set guioptions-=r " Removes right hand scroll bar
set go-=L " Removes left hand scroll bar
set linespace=15
@joaocunha
joaocunha / How To Hide The Select Arrow On Firefox.md
Last active December 10, 2023 13:05
How to hide <select> dropdown's arrow in Firefox when using "-moz-appearance: none;".

This is no longer a bug. I'm keeping the gist for historical reasons, as it helped to get it fixed. Make sure to read the notes by the end of the post.

How to remove hide the select arrow in Firefox using -moz-appearance:none;

TL;DR (or, the fix)

  1. Set -moz-appearance to none. This will "reset" the styling of the element;
  2. Set text-indent to 0.01px. This will "push" the text a tiny bit[1] to the right;
@dypsilon
dypsilon / backendDevelopmentBookmarks.md
Last active March 22, 2025 02:56
Backend Engineering Bookmarks
@dypsilon
dypsilon / frontendDevlopmentBookmarks.md
Last active May 5, 2025 13:05
A badass list of frontend development resources I collected over time.
@jamesmacaulay
jamesmacaulay / Clojure.sublime-settings
Last active January 18, 2021 19:01
Clojure stuff for Sublime Text 2. Files live in ~/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/User
// installed Clojure packages:
//
// * BracketHighlighter
// * lispindent
// * SublimeREPL
// * sublime-paredit
{
"word_separators": "/\\()\"',;!@$%^&|+=[]{}`~?",
"paredit_enabled": true,
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active April 28, 2025 00:02
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@erikflowers
erikflowers / Less Retina Mixin Utility Class
Last active February 22, 2019 00:37
I took this from the retina.js solution and modified it a bit. All credit goes to https://github.com/imulus/retinajs, I just tweaked this for my needs. This mixin includes most of the parameters you need, so you don't need to call them out twice. It can all be done in the mixin.
// the retina mixin. An example goes: .at2x(img/[email protected], 650px, 150px, top, left, no-repeat, scroll)
// Put the size that the image appears on a non-retina, e.g. if it's a 200px x 200px non-retina, that is the effective size. The @2x 400px x 400px is calculated automatically. The order to type it is width then height.
// A modification of the retina.js less mixin - https://github.com/imulus/retinajs
@highdpi: ~"(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5), (min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5), (-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3/2), (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)";
.at2x(@path, @w: auto, @h: auto, @xpos: 0, @ypos: 0, @repeat: no-repeat, @attachment: scroll) {
background-image: url(@path);
background-position: @xpos @ypos;
background-repeat: @repeat;