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Avoid jQuery When Possible

jQuery does good jobs when you're dealing with browser compatibility. But we're living in an age that fewer and fewer people use old-school browsers such as IE <= 7. With the growing of DOM APIs in modern browsers (including IE 8), most functions that jQuery provides are built-in natively.

When targeting only modern browsers, it is better to avoid using jQuery's backward-compatible features. Instead, use the native DOM API, which will make your web page run much faster than you might think (native C / C++ implementaion v.s. JavaScript).

If you're making a web page for iOS (e.g. UIWebView), you should use native DOM APIs because mobile Safari is not that old-school web browser; it supports lots of native DOM APIs.

If you're making a Chrome Extension, you should always use native APIs, not only because Chrome has almost the latest DOM APIs available, but this can also avoid performance issue and unnecessary memory occupation (each jQuery-driven extension needs a separate

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

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Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

Tiny Content Framework

About the project

This is a tiny content strategy framework focused on goals, messages, and branding. This is not a checklist. Use what you need and scrap the rest. Rewrite it or add to it. These topics should help you get to the bottom of things with clients and other people you work with.

Give me feedback on Twitter (@nicoleslaw) or by email ([email protected]).

Max Battery Life Checklist

Here is a checklist to follow if you want maximum battery life -- for instance if you're about to get on a long plane flight.

Low power use checklist

With power connected:

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

General challenges and competitions

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	"""Simple HTTP Server With Upload.

	This module builds on BaseHTTPServer by implementing the standard GET
	and HEAD requests in a fairly straightforward manner.

	"""

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# encoding: utf-8

	import sys
	from argparse import ArgumentParser
	from xml.dom import minidom
	try:
	from urllib.request import urlopen
	from urllib.parse import urlencode
	except ImportError:

	Copyright (c) 2012, Miguel Araujo
	All rights reserved.

	Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
	modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

	* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
	list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

	* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,