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IanColdwater / twittermute.txt
Last active April 22, 2024 17:26
Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit.
Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords
ActivityTweet
generic_activity_highlights
generic_activity_momentsbreaking
RankedOrganicTweet
suggest_activity
suggest_activity_feed
suggest_activity_highlights
suggest_activity_tweet
@bishboria
bishboria / springer-free-maths-books.md
Last active April 25, 2024 06:27
Springer made a bunch of books available for free, these were the direct links
@paulirish
paulirish / bling.js
Last active May 1, 2024 19:56
bling dot js
/* bling.js */
window.$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
Node.prototype.on = window.on = function (name, fn) {
this.addEventListener(name, fn);
}
NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
@mikelehen
mikelehen / generate-pushid.js
Created February 11, 2015 17:34
JavaScript code for generating Firebase Push IDs
/**
* Fancy ID generator that creates 20-character string identifiers with the following properties:
*
* 1. They're based on timestamp so that they sort *after* any existing ids.
* 2. They contain 72-bits of random data after the timestamp so that IDs won't collide with other clients' IDs.
* 3. They sort *lexicographically* (so the timestamp is converted to characters that will sort properly).
* 4. They're monotonically increasing. Even if you generate more than one in the same timestamp, the
* latter ones will sort after the former ones. We do this by using the previous random bits
* but "incrementing" them by 1 (only in the case of a timestamp collision).
*/

(This is a brief summary of Ethereum's white paper)

Ethereum 101

What is Ethereum

Ethereum is a new cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin or Litecoin, that adds a number of new features. Most notably the inclusion of Agents (also known as Contracts); Independent Turing-complete programs that exist on the Ethereum blockchain. These Agents can receive Ether (Ethereum's currency) and other inputs, perform computations, hold balances, transfer Ether, and even activate other Agents.

Ethereum also attempts to fix some current issues with cryptocurenncy mining, such as rise of specialized hardware, large mining pools that aim to control the network, and the lack of reward for stale blocks, dissuading miners with weaker hardware.

Agents

@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active April 25, 2024 02:01
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

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"

Results

@temoto
temoto / helpers_data.py
Last active March 22, 2022 05:19
Part of py-helpers. Gzip compression shortcuts. Encoding. Database helpers. Retry decorator.
def namedlist(typename, field_names):
"""Returns a new subclass of list with named fields.
>>> Point = namedlist('Point', ('x', 'y'))
>>> Point.__doc__ # docstring for the new class
'Point(x, y)'
>>> p = Point(11, y=22) # instantiate with positional args or keywords
>>> p[0] + p[1] # indexable like a plain list
33
>>> x, y = p # unpack like a regular list
@tlehman
tlehman / self-rep.c
Created February 1, 2013 23:19
Program that prints out its own source code
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX 1024
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
int fd;
char buf[MAX];
fd = open("self-rep.c", O_RDONLY);
@KartikTalwar
KartikTalwar / Documentation.md
Last active April 13, 2024 23:09
Rsync over SSH - (40MB/s over 1GB NICs)

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

  • a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
  • H: preserves hard-links
  • A: preserves ACLs
@preshing
preshing / sort1mb.cpp
Created October 25, 2012 11:28
Sort one million 8-digit numbers in 1MB RAM
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <assert.h>
typedef unsigned int u32;
typedef unsigned long long u64;
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
// WorkArea
//-------------------------------------------------------------------------