romainl

Don't use Vim

Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

-- Anthony Vincenzo "Tony" Baretta

Vim is an amazing text editor. I love it. Really, I wouldn't [organize][organize] a Vim advent calendar if I didn't. But, as amazing as it is, Vim is not for everyone. It can't solve all your problems, or be a TUI version of your favorite IDE, or make you a better programmer, or land you that dream job in the Bay Area. But Vim can help you be more mindful, focused, and efficient, as long as you approach it with the right mindset.

Don't get me wrong, I certainly welcome you to try Vim, but I'm not a proselyte. I don't thrive on newbies. I just want you to use the right tool for the job and not waste your—and anyone's—time on a fruitless quest.

oakes

How Clojure's documentation can leapfrog other languages

Summary

I made a documentation generator that cashes in on Clojure's dynamism. See the play-cljs docs (a ClojureScript game library) for an example of its output.

The Problem

Like many of you, I've often wondered what my final regret will be on my deathbed. My best guess came to me in a dream recently. I was walking across the charred earth of an apocalyptic future world, maneuvering around the remains of the less fortunate. I was startled to find a young girl, barely holding onto her life. She murmured something to me. I asked her to repeat it, and she said more loudly: "I...wish your Clojure projects didn't have such crappy documentation."

gka

Make sure ffmpeg is up-to-date:

brew update
brew upgrade ffmpeg

Convert a MOV into frames. Tweak the 2/1 if you want more or fewer frames.

bitemyapp

The Learning Haskell guide has been moved to a git repo to enable outside contribution

Find it here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

absurd

# Copyright 2013AD Gallus Absurd


def unfalse_poem():
    None is not True or False
    for subject in [complex(True,False)]:
        subject is not object
        for certainty in [complex(False,True)]:
            certainty is not Exception
            certainty is not license

Asparagirl

Do you have a WARC file of a website all downloaded and ready to be added to the Internet Archive? Great! You can do that with the Internet Archive's web-based uploader, but it's not ideal and it can't handle really big uploads. Here's how you can upload your WARC files to the IA from the command line, and without worrying about a size restriction.

First, you need to get your Access Key and Secret Key from the Internet Archive for the S3-like API. Here's where you can get that for your IA account: http://archive.org/account/s3.php Don't share those with other people!

Here's their documentation file about how to use it, if you need some extra help: http://archive.org/help/abouts3.txt

Next, you should copy the following files to a text file and edit them as needed:

export IA_S3_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR-ACCESS-KEY-FROM-THE-IA-GOES-HERE"

Asparagirl

Want to grab a copy of your favorite website, using wget in the command line, and saving it in WARC format? Then this is the gist for you. Read on!

First, copy the following lines into a textfile, and edit them as needed. Then paste them into your command line and hit enter:

export USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27"
export DOMAIN_NAME_TO_SAVE="www.example.com"
export SPECIFIC_HOSTNAMES_TO_INCLUDE="example1.com,example2.com,images.example2.com"
export FILES_AND_PATHS_TO_EXCLUDE="/path/to/ignore"
export WARC_NAME="example.com-20130810-panicgrab"

sjl

friendly-find

Brainstorming a friendlier find(1).

Usage

Goals:

agaviria

# comments example for .dat or .ledger files
@smallexample
; This is a single line comment,
# and this,
% and this,
| and this,
* and this.

# If you have a deeply nested tree of accounts, 
# it may be convenient to define an alias, for example: