mjackson

/**
 * Converts an RGB color value to HSL. Conversion formula
 * adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_color_space.
 * Assumes r, g, and b are contained in the set [0, 255] and
 * returns h, s, and l in the set [0, 1].
 *
 * @param   Number  r       The red color value
 * @param   Number  g       The green color value
 * @param   Number  b       The blue color value
 * @return  Array           The HSL representation

guifromrio

This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.

ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Other options for PDFSETTINGS:

• /screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
• /ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
• /printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
• /prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.

nickloewen

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

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Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

xem

codegolf JS

Mini projects by Maxime Euzière (xem), subzey, Martin Kleppe (aemkei), Mathieu Henri (p01), Litterallylara, Tommy Hodgins (innovati), Veu(beke), Anders Kaare, Keith Clark, Addy Osmani, bburky, rlauck, cmoreau, maettig, thiemowmde, ilesinge, adlq, solinca, xen_the,...

(For more info and other projects, visit http://xem.github.io)

(Official Slack room: http://jsgolf.club / join us on http://register.jsgolf.club)

addyosmani

CSS Layout Debugger

A tweet-sized debugger for visualizing your CSS layouts. Outlines every DOM element on your page a random (valid) CSS hex color.

One-line version to paste in your DevTools

Use $$ if your browser aliases it:

~ 108 byte version

tronsha

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
   echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
   exit 1
fi
apt-get update
apt-get install -y git-core autoconf bison libxml2-dev libbz2-dev libmcrypt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libltdl-dev libpng-dev libpspell-dev libreadline-dev make
mkdir -p /etc/php7/conf.d
mkdir -p /etc/php7/cli/conf.d
mkdir /usr/local/php7

danharper

<?php namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

/**
 * If the incoming request is an OPTIONS request
 * we will register a handler for the requested route
 */
class CatchAllOptionsRequestsProvider extends ServiceProvider {

praphull27

Jenkins, Protractor and Headless Chrome Browser Setup on Ubuntu 14.04

Update Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install Java

nrollr

Install MySQL on OS X El Capitan

Normally the installation of MySQL can be achieved with a single command, which executes a script provided by MacMiniVault : bash <(curl -Ls http://git.io/eUx7rg)

However, at the time of writing the script is not compatible with OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Install MySQL using Homebrew

An alternative to the aforementioned installation script is installing MySQL using Homebrew. This gist assumes you already have Homebrew installed, if not first read the article "Homebrew and El Capitan"

Make sure Homebrew has the latest formulae, so run brew update first

marcobiedermann

Compression

Archive tar and gzip

tar -czf output.tar.gz input_folder1 input_folder2 input_file …

Extract tar and gzip