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P4 / default.reg
Last active March 27, 2026 17:07
Color schemes for Windows Command Prompt
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; Default color scheme
; for Windows command prompt.
; Values stored as 00-BB-GG-RR
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console]
; BLACK DGRAY
"ColorTable00"=dword:00000000
"ColorTable08"=dword:00808080
; BLUE LBLUE
@jareware
jareware / SCSS.md
Last active August 16, 2026 11:32
Advanced SCSS, or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

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

Moved

Now located at https://github.com/JeffPaine/beautiful_idiomatic_python.

Why it was moved

Github gists don't support Pull Requests or any notifications, which made it impossible for me to maintain this (surprisingly popular) gist with fixes, respond to comments and so on. In the interest of maintaining the quality of this resource for others, I've moved it to a proper repo. Cheers!

@jbenet
jbenet / simple-git-branching-model.md
Last active June 3, 2026 23:26
a simple git branching model

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

@ThomasBurleson
ThomasBurleson / makeTryCatch.js
Last active December 28, 2015 14:29
Using Promises and AngularJS $log, I demonstrate how to guard targeted function invocations using a `super` version of try-catch. And the guard will report exceptions (with stack traces) via the logger function. If the target function returns a promise, then a rejection handler is attached; which will also report rejections and possible stack tr…
/**
* Implement a tryCatch() method that logs exceptions for method invocations AND
* promise rejection activity.
*
* @param notifyFn Function callback with logging/exception information (typically $log.error )
* @param scope Object Receiver for the notifyFn invocation ( optional )
*
* @return Function used to guard and invoke the targeted actionFn
*/
function makeTryCatch( notifyFn, scope )
@debasishg
debasishg / gist:8172796
Last active August 5, 2026 05:48
A collection of links for streaming algorithms and data structures

General Background and Overview

  1. Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
  2. Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
  3. Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
  4. Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
  5. [Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t
@NickCraver
NickCraver / Windows10-Setup.ps1
Last active June 3, 2026 14:06
(In Progress) PowerShell Script I use to customize my machines in the same way for privacy, search, UI, etc.
##################
# Privacy Settings
##################
# Privacy: Let apps use my advertising ID: Disable
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AdvertisingInfo -Name Enabled -Type DWord -Value 0
# To Restore:
#Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AdvertisingInfo -Name Enabled -Type DWord -Value 1
# Privacy: SmartScreen Filter for Store Apps: Disable
Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppHost -Name EnableWebContentEvaluation -Type DWord -Value 0
# Put this in your .zshrc or .bashrc file
# Install `tree` first — brew install tree
function t() {
# Defaults to 3 levels deep, do more with `t 5` or `t 1`
# pass additional args after
tree -I '.git|node_modules|bower_components|.DS_Store' --dirsfirst --filelimit 15 -L ${1:-3} -aC $2
}
// Originally taken from https://github.com/mgtitimoli/await-mutex
class Mutex {
constructor() {
this._locking = Promise.resolve();
this._locked = false;
}
isLocked() {
return this._locked;
@mwpastore
mwpastore / 00README.md
Last active March 30, 2026 14:53
Lightning Fast WordPress: Caddy+Varnish+PHP-FPM

README

This gist assumes you are migrating an existing site for www.example.com — ideally WordPress — to a new server — ideally Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS — and wish to enable HTTP/2 (backwards compatibile with HTTP/1.1) with always-on HTTPS, caching, compression, and more. Although these instructions are geared towards WordPress, they should be trivially extensible to other PHP frameworks, other FastCGI backends, and even non-FastCGI backends (using proxy in lieu of fastcgi in the terminal Caddyfile stanza).

Quickstart: Use your own naked and canonical domain names instead of example.com and www.example.com and customize the Caddyfile and VCL provided in this gist to your preferences!

These instructions target Varnish Cache 4.1, PHP-FPM 7.0, and Caddy 0.10. (I'm using MariaDB 10.1 as well, but that's not relevant to this guide.)