Stephen Jeffrey Barr stephenjbarr

Tips

This is a collection of all kinds of tips that I found to be useful over the years as most of them reflect repetative tasks but that are seldom applied. As a human... I forget. This list will soon be merge with a much longer and older list and then, I guess, I will publish it maybe as gist on Github or part of my dot-files Git repository.

OS X / Mac

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

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.

Haskell Resources

Frontend Development

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	# Ask for the user password
	# Script only works if sudo caches the password for a few minutes
	sudo true

	# Install kernel extra's to enable docker aufs support
	# sudo apt-get -y install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r)

	# Add Docker PPA and install latest version
	# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 36A1D7869245C8950F966E92D8576A8BA88D21E9
	# sudo sh -c "echo deb https://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list"

	SLIDES := $(patsubst %.md,%.md.slides.pdf,$(wildcard *.md))
	HANDOUTS := $(patsubst %.md,%.md.handout.pdf,$(wildcard *.md))

	all : $(SLIDES) $(HANDOUTS)

	%.md.slides.pdf : %.md
	pandoc $^ -t beamer --slide-level 2 -o $@

	%.md.handout.pdf : %.md
	pandoc $^ -t beamer --slide-level 2 -V handout -o $@

	#! /usr/bin/env python
	"""
	Pandoc filter to convert svg files to pdf as suggested at:
	https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/265#issuecomment-27317316
	"""

	__author__ = "Jerome Robert"

	import mimetypes
	import subprocess

	Xcursor.theme: Vanilla-DMZ-AA

	!urxvt color scheme:

	URxvt*background: #2B2B2B
	URxvt*foreground: #DEDEDE

	!URxvt*colorUL: #86a2b0

	! black

	{-
	Place contents of this file in $HOME/.ghci then run

	$ cabal install -j2 hoogle
	$ hoogle data
	-}

	let ghciEscapeShellArg arg = "'" ++ concatMap (\c -> if c == '\'' then "'\"'\"'" else [c]) arg ++ "'"

	:def! h return . (":! hoogle --color --count=20 " ++) . ghciEscapeShellArg