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@drernie
drernie / csvtomap.go
Created March 10, 2017 22:48
Golang Convert CSV Records to Dictionaries using Header Row as Keys
// CSVToMap takes a reader and returns an array of dictionaries, using the header row as the keys
func CSVToMap(reader io.Reader) []map[string]string {
r := csv.NewReader(reader)
rows := []map[string]string{}
var header []string
for {
record, err := r.Read()
if err == io.EOF {
break
}
@tkfu
tkfu / srd_5e_monsters.json
Last active May 2, 2024 15:04
A JSON file with all the D&D 5e SRD monster data
[
{
"name": "Aboleth",
"meta": "Large aberration, lawful evil",
"Armor Class": "17 (Natural Armor)",
"Hit Points": "135 (18d10 + 36)",
"Speed": "10 ft., swim 40 ft. ",
"STR": "21",
"STR_mod": "(+5)",
"DEX": "9",
@sirodoht
sirodoht / migrate-django.md
Last active April 20, 2024 09:52
How to migrate Django from SQLite to PostgreSQL

How to migrate Django from SQLite to PostgreSQL

Dump existing data:

python3 manage.py dumpdata > datadump.json

Change settings.py to Postgres backend.

Make sure you can connect on PostgreSQL. Then:

@ivandrofly
ivandrofly / Unicode table
Created May 4, 2014 02:20
Unicode table - List of most common Unicode characters *
Unicode table - List of most common Unicode characters *
* This summary list contains about 2000 characters for most common ocidental/latin languages and most printable symbols but not chinese, japanese, arab, archaic and some unprintable.
Contains character codes in HEX (hexadecimal), decimal number, name/description and corresponding printable symbol.
What is Unicode?
Unicode is a standard created to define letters of all languages ​​and characters such as punctuation and technical symbols. Today, UNICODE (UTF-8) is the most used character set encoding (used by almost 70% of websites, in 2013). The second most used character set is ISO-8859-1 (about 20% of websites), but this old encoding format is being replaced by Unicode.
How to identify the Unicode number for a character?
Type or paste a character:
@border
border / mgoExample.go
Created August 27, 2012 15:33
mgo example
package main
import (
"fmt"
"labix.org/v2/mgo"
"labix.org/v2/mgo/bson"
"time"
)
type Person struct {
@cdipaolo
cdipaolo / HaversinFormula.go
Created April 15, 2015 01:31
Golang functions to calculate the distance in meters between long,lat points on Earth.
// haversin(θ) function
func hsin(theta float64) float64 {
return math.Pow(math.Sin(theta/2), 2)
}
// Distance function returns the distance (in meters) between two points of
// a given longitude and latitude relatively accurately (using a spherical
// approximation of the Earth) through the Haversin Distance Formula for
// great arc distance on a sphere with accuracy for small distances
//
@philfreo
philfreo / gist:7257723
Created October 31, 2013 21:44
Facebook Perl source code from 2005. When browsing around thefacebook.com in 2005 the server spit out some server-side source code rather than running it. I believe this was for their old graph feature that let you visualize the graph between all your friends. The filename is `mygraph.svgz` and contains some gems such as a commented out "zuck" d…
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mysql;
use strict;
use vars qw($school_name);
use vars qw($pass);
require "./cgi-lib.pl";
@sigilioso
sigilioso / cuter.py
Created June 19, 2012 22:58
Python PIL Example: get a thumbnail by resizing and cropping an image.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import Image
def resize_and_crop(img_path, modified_path, size, crop_type='top'):
"""
Resize and crop an image to fit the specified size.
args:
img_path: path for the image to resize.
@jwinder
jwinder / sonic-pi-tutorial.md
Last active September 22, 2023 20:12
Sonic Pi in-app tutorials concatenated - last synced 27-08-2023 - https://sonic-pi.net/tutorial.html - https://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi - All credit & thanks to Sam Aaron!

1 Welcome to Sonic Pi

Welcome friend :-)

Welcome to Sonic Pi. Hopefully you're as excited to get started making your own sounds as I am to show you. It's going to be a really fun ride where you'll learn all about music, synthesis, programming, composition, performance and more.

@aquiseb
aquiseb / graphql-go-mongodb-example.go
Last active August 7, 2022 23:39
Minimal example of GraphQL Golang and MongoDB playing nicely together. Edit
// Embedded in this article https://medium.com/p/c98e491015b6
package main
import (
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"time"
"github.com/graph-gophers/graphql-go"