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davidhemphill / gist:5188894
Created March 18, 2013 17:09
How to do a Git clone without the .git directory
// Clone the repo
git clone --depth=1 git://someserver/somerepo dirformynewrepo
// Remove the .git directory
rm -rf !$/.git
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jareware / SCSS.md
Last active July 11, 2026 19:42
Advanced SCSS, or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do

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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

@justinrainbow
justinrainbow / .ackrc
Created February 13, 2012 16:48
My ack conf file
# General Ack Settings
####################################################################
# only search with case sensitivity if there is mixed case
--smart-case
# follow symlinks
--follow
# Ack Type Settings
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badsyntax / email_validation.js
Created November 29, 2010 10:32
rfc822 email validation in JS
// See http://rosskendall.com/blog/web/javascript-function-to-check-an-email-address-conforms-to-rfc822
function isEmail(email){
return /^([^\x00-\x20\x22\x28\x29\x2c\x2e\x3a-\x3c\x3e\x40\x5b-\x5d\x7f-\xff]+|\x22([^\x0d\x22\x5c\x80-\xff]|\x5c[\x00-\x7f])*\x22)(\x2e([^\x00-\x20\x22\x28\x29\x2c\x2e\x3a-\x3c\x3e\x40\x5b-\x5d\x7f-\xff]+|\x22([^\x0d\x22\x5c\x80-\xff]|\x5c[\x00-\x7f])*\x22))*\x40([^\x00-\x20\x22\x28\x29\x2c\x2e\x3a-\x3c\x3e\x40\x5b-\x5d\x7f-\xff]+|\x5b([^\x0d\x5b-\x5d\x80-\xff]|\x5c[\x00-\x7f])*\x5d)(\x2e([^\x00-\x20\x22\x28\x29\x2c\x2e\x3a-\x3c\x3e\x40\x5b-\x5d\x7f-\xff]+|\x5b([^\x0d\x5b-\x5d\x80-\xff]|\x5c[\x00-\x7f])*\x5d))*$/.test( email );
}