Deploys for static sites or web apps made easy with GitHub Actions
A generic but elegant CI flow for deploying a site to Github Pages - this is triggered on a push to master and runs on Github Actions - docs.
This workflow is targeted at a static site like Hexo or a single-page applciation like React project. It doesn't matter what the language is as long as your build steps results in a public directory which can be served on Github Pages.
How to get Pull Requests data using Github in the browser, or using the API to allow for automating reporting or building in values into a website.
A beginner's guide to installing Python 3 and setting up a virtual environment
This guide covers how to install and upgrade Python 3 and how to create and an install into a Python virtual environment.
This is best practice in Python for both local and production code, as it isolates the scope where your python commands and pip commands run, protecting your global environment and allowing your to manage multiple virtual environments each with their own set of unique Python packages.
Customize VS Code with some code snippets so you can insert them into your projects
For more info see:
Install Node using NVM
A guide to using NVM to install versions of Node.
If you don't have NVM yet, see Install NVM gist.
$ nvm install 14
Install Go binary manually
The instructions here work on Linux and macOS and use curl or wget to download Go. If you prefer to use a package manager, see this gist.
Download and install from the Go website:
go$VERSION.$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz
Example of using a GraphQL service to explore the Twitter API
A great way to explore the Twitter API and returned data, without worrying about authorization or local setup. Just add a query in the explorer and hit run.
The GraphQL Hub website has an interactive GraphiQL service which allows access to Gitub, Twitter, Giphy and other APIs in the browser without authorization.
Get the metadata and content of all files in a given GitHub repo using the GraphQL API
You might want to get a tree summary of files in a repo without downloading the repo, or maybe you want to lookup the contents of a file again without download the whole repo.
The approach here is to query data from GitHub using the Github V4 GraphQL API.
This gist helps your export names of shows on your Netflix profile list, so you can share those names with other people. You could put the output in a gist, blog post or email to your friends. I added mine as a gist here.
It will get the names of all the items on Netflix which are on My List. Shows that are your favorites or that you plan to watch. Note that this is separate from shows where you clicked the thumbs-up I like this button, which is more permanent, while you may want to trim your My List section down to remove shows you already watched. Unfortunately, I can't see any easy way to export all liked shows.