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thure / 1.1: Why state machines?.md
Last active March 9, 2026 13:31
SCXML Tutorials

Fundamentals: why state machines?

States. The final frontier. These are the voyages of an enterprising developer. Her eternal mission: to explore strange new techniques, to seek out better ways to engineer for mental models and new design patterns. To boldly go where a few awesome devs have gone before.

So you’ve found our poignant guide to SCXML and surely you’re wondering “Why should I want to go out of my way to use formal state machines?” or something like that. Hopefully this introduction addresses that kind of question.

An example: Nancy’s RPG

The problem

@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active March 8, 2026 21:05
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

  1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
  • User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
    • Who is going to use it?
    • How are they going to use it?
@lattner
lattner / TaskConcurrencyManifesto.md
Last active March 7, 2026 21:39
Swift Concurrency Manifesto
@brandonb927
brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active March 5, 2026 10:16
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/bin/sh
###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx
@paulirish
paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active March 4, 2026 05:36
What forces layout/reflow. The comprehensive list.

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics
  • elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
@mandiwise
mandiwise / Update remote repo
Last active February 27, 2026 16:47
Transfer repo from Bitbucket to Github
// Reference: http://www.blackdogfoundry.com/blog/moving-repository-from-bitbucket-to-github/
// See also: http://www.paulund.co.uk/change-url-of-git-repository
$ cd $HOME/Code/repo-directory
$ git remote rename origin bitbucket
$ git remote add origin https://github.com/mandiwise/awesome-new-repo.git
$ git push origin master
$ git remote rm bitbucket
@davfre
davfre / git_cheat-sheet.md
Last active February 26, 2026 16:40
git commandline cheat-sheet
@awidegreen
awidegreen / vim_cheatsheet.md
Last active February 5, 2026 10:12
Vim shortcuts

Introduction

  • C-a == Ctrl-a
  • M-a == Alt-a

General

:q        close
:w        write/saves
:wa[!]    write/save all windows [force]
:wq       write/save and close
@danielgtaylor
danielgtaylor / gist:0b60c2ed1f069f118562
Last active December 25, 2025 23:55
Moving to ES6 from CoffeeScript

Moving to ES6 from CoffeeScript

I fell in love with CoffeeScript a couple of years ago. Javascript has always seemed something of an interesting curiosity to me and I was happy to see the meteoric rise of Node.js, but coming from a background of Python I really preferred a cleaner syntax.

In any fast moving community it is inevitable that things will change, and so today we see a big shift toward ES6, the new version of Javascript. It incorporates a handful of the nicer features from CoffeeScript and is usable today through tools like Babel. Here are some of my thoughts and issues on moving away from CoffeeScript in favor of ES6.

While reading I suggest keeping open a tab to Babel's learning ES6 page. The examples there are great.

Punctuation

Holy punctuation, Batman! Say goodbye to your whitespace and hello to parenthesis, curly braces, and semicolons again. Even with the advanced ES6 syntax you'll find yourself writing a lot more punctuatio

@bcoe
bcoe / npm-top.md
Last active December 14, 2025 08:42
npm-top.md

npm Users By Downloads (git.io/npm-top)


npm users sorted by the monthly downloads of their modules, for the range May 6, 2018 until Jun 6, 2018.

Metrics are calculated using top-npm-users.

# User Downloads