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@colynb
colynb / dabblet.css
Created December 22, 2011 03:24
Radio Button Hack - CSS Only
input[type=radio] {
position: absolute;
top: -9999px;
left: -9999px;
}
label {
cursor: pointer;
text-align: center;
font-family: sans-serif;
@brandonb927
brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active November 11, 2025 10:27
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/bin/sh
###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx
@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active December 28, 2025 13:59
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@rxaviers
rxaviers / gist:7360908
Last active January 2, 2026 03:25
Complete list of github markdown emoji markup

People

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@mlanett
mlanett / rails http status codes
Last active December 15, 2025 15:47
HTTP status code symbols for Rails
HTTP status code symbols for Rails
Thanks to Cody Fauser for this list of HTTP responce codes and their Ruby on Rails symbol mappings.
Status Code Symbol
1xx Informational
100 :continue
101 :switching_protocols
102 :processing
@yuhua-chen
yuhua-chen / Drag-and-drop-uitableviewcell-swift2.swift
Created August 6, 2015 09:12
Demo the drag and drop UITableViewCell in Swift 2.
struct Drag {
static var placeholderView: UIView!
static var sourceIndexPath: NSIndexPath!
}
func handleLongPress(gesture: UILongPressGestureRecognizer) {
let point = gesture.locationInView(tableView)
let indexPath = tableView.indexPathForRowAtPoint(point)
switch gesture.state {
@ssaunier
ssaunier / README.md
Last active August 1, 2023 21:28
Adding Le Wagon to your Linkedin Profil
@thegitfather
thegitfather / vanilla-js-cheatsheet.md
Last active November 21, 2025 07:55
Vanilla JavaScript Quick Reference / Cheatsheet
@mxstbr
mxstbr / Readme.md
Last active October 20, 2024 20:44
Enable tab completion for JSX with Emmet in Atom

Enable tab completion for JSX with Emmet in Atom

This guide assumes you have the emmet and language-babel packages already installed in Atom

Gif of the tab completion working

  1. Open the keymap.cson file by clicking on Atom -> Keymapโ€ฆ in the menu bar
  2. Add these lines of code to your keymap:
'atom-text-editor[data-grammar~="jsx"]:not([mini])':

Realtime Notifications with ActionCable

In this episode we're going to be adding realtime notifications into your app using ActionCable. We've talked about notifications a few times in the past and we used AJAX polling for that. 95% of the time, polling is the solution that would be recommended for it.

But if you're looking for a good introduction into ActionCable then this is a decent one because we're only really using it for one way from the server side to the client side.

Getting started

So to get started we're starting with an app that has Bootstrap installed and then we created a Main controller with an index view which is where we will list our Notifications as for this example.

Before we generate our channels let's install a few things