cassidoo

#Web scrapers on the internet

See this repo to contribute/see more: https://github.com/cassidoo/scrapers

• https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
• http://crawly.diffbot.com/
• http://scrapinghub.com
• http://www.outwit.com/products/hub/
• http://webroots.io
• http://clearbit.com

kyledrake

# The blog post that started it all: https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited
#
# Current known FCC address ranges:
# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716915
#
# Confirm/locate FCC IP ranges with this: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-165-135-0-0-1/pft
#
# In your nginx.conf:

location / {

wolfg1969

Raspberry Pi 4 + u-blox GPS module (uart)

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gpsd gpsd-client python-gps

Enable the serial interface and disable serial login shell with raspi-config then reboot. Confirm /dev/ttyS0 exists

$ ls -l /dev/serial*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 9 10:38 /dev/serial0 -> ttyS0

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

anantn

function go() {
  var userId = prompt('Username?', 'Guest');
  checkIfUserExists(userId);
}

var USERS_LOCATION = 'https://SampleChat.firebaseIO-demo.com/users';

function userExistsCallback(userId, exists) {
  if (exists) {
    alert('user ' + userId + ' exists!');

mathewbyrne

function slugify(text)
{
  return text.toString().toLowerCase()
    .replace(/\s+/g, '-')           // Replace spaces with -
    .replace(/[^\w\-]+/g, '')       // Remove all non-word chars
    .replace(/\-\-+/g, '-')         // Replace multiple - with single -
    .replace(/^-+/, '')             // Trim - from start of text
    .replace(/-+$/, '');            // Trim - from end of text
}