Oli Treadwell (he/him) olitreadwell

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

Capybara

save_and_open_page

Matchers

have_button(locator)

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

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.

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

"Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
"Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

Unfollow everyone on twitter.com

By @foldleft.bsky.social, see also Unfollow everyone on bsky.app.

Go to https://twitter.com/YOUR_USER_NAME/following
Open the Developer Console. (COMMAND+ALT+I on Mac)
Paste this into the Developer Console and run it

// Unfollow everyone on twitter.com, by Jamie Mason (https://twitter.com/fold_left)

Tips for a #WINNING Github Profile

The basics

As a new developer some potential employers are going to review your Github profile as part of the interview process. This doc covers some tips that should help you make a good impression. What this doc won't do is polish a turd.

README

Think of your experiences reviewing a Gem or other JS library on Github. Where do you look first? The README of course. What makes for a frustrating repo? One that doesn't:

include a README.
include install instructions (if applicable)

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	if ARGV[0].nil? \|\| ARGV[0].match(/-h/)
	puts "Usage : #{$0} github_username dash_sqlite_db char_appended_to_keyword [no_comments]"
	exit
	end

	require 'net/http'
	require 'open-uri'
	#require 'awesome_print'