skim sl4m

Mind expanding programming languages

C
- http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CeeLanguage
Common Lisp (via LISP)
- http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/index.htm
- https://github.com/readevalprintlove/lithp
Dedalus (via Datalog)
- http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-173.html

http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/

Networking Troubles with Vagrant Box ubuntu/wily64

For some reason, the network interfaces in ubuntu/wily64 fail to configure at boot. The interfaces are renamed during boot, with dmesg reporting things like udev renamed network interface eth0 to enp1s0. This is apparently the result of a change in systemd. You can read about it here:

Starting with v197 systemd/udev will automatically assign predictable, stable network interface names for all local Ethernet, WLAN and WWAN interfaces. This is a departure from the traditional interface naming scheme ("eth0", "eth1", "wlan0", ...), but should fix real problems.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

Option 1: Command-line download extension as zip and extract

extension_id=jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin   # change this ID
curl -L -o "$extension_id.zip" "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx?response=redirect&os=mac&arch=x86-64&nacl_arch=x86-64&prod=chromecrx&prodchannel=stable&prodversion=44.0.2403.130&x=id%3D$extension_id%26uc" 
unzip -d "$extension_id-source" "$extension_id.zip"

Thx to crxviewer for the magic download URL.

Upgrading to Lion or Yosemite and WebStorm 9, I noticed key repeat was
turned off for the IdeaVim plugin h j k l keys.

System-wide key repeat

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false in a terminal will enable
key repeat for every app. This can alternatively be found in the accessibility settings in OS X' preferences.

App specific key repeat

Screencapture and animated gifs

I say "animated gif" but in reality I think it's irresponsible to be serving "real" GIF files to people now. You should be serving gfy's, gifv's, webm, mp4s, whatever. They're a fraction of the filesize making it easier for you to deliver high fidelity, full color animation very quickly, especially on bad mobile connections. (But I suppose if you're just doing this for small audiences (like bug reporting), then LICEcap is a good solution).

Capturing (Easy)

Launch quicktime player
do Screen recording

CSS Layout Debugger

A tweet-sized debugger for visualizing your CSS layouts. Outlines every DOM element on your page a random (valid) CSS hex color.

One-line version to paste in your DevTools

Use $$ if your browser aliases it:

~ 108 byte version

rack/rack#337 (comment)

Question re: should this be rack's job

# config.ru
run ->(env) {
  [ 200, { 'Content-Type' => 'text/html', }, [Rack::Request.new(env).params.inspect] ]
}

Prolog

Google Chrome Developers says:

The new WOFF 2.0 Web Font compression format offers a 30% average gain over WOFF 1.0 (up to 50%+ in some cases). WOFF 2.0 is available since Chrome 36 and Opera 23.

Some examples of file size differences: WOFF vs. WOFF2

TTF to WOFF2 converting

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

	Please read original blog post for reference:
	http://blog.process-one.net/embedding-ejabberd-into-an-elixir-phoenix-web-application/