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#!/usr/bin/env zsh
# frame foo.webp bar.png
rm -rf framed
mkdir framed
for img in ${@:1}; do
  magick "$img" \
    -fuzz 1% -trim -bordercolor white -border 100 \
    -resize "1024x576" \
    -background "#EEE" -compose Copy -gravity center -extent "1600x900" \
    "framed/$img"

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Last night I had my first experience teaching programming to beginners. The students had read the first three sections of the HTML 4 specification, and during the class session we installed a text editor and web browser, and started building web pages from scratch.

Based on the questions they asked and the discussion we had, I decided that it might help to zoom out a level and frame the concept of “programming” in general terms. This is what I came up with.

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Computers are a tool to extend our power of reason.

Reason can be thought of as a processing of symbols according to rules.

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#!/usr/bin/env zsh
#
# https://gist.github.com/chadwhitacre/5d2ff5f46cd0bc981b3f3b76cf891b97
#
# Squash the N most recent git commits together (default: 2), using the oldest
# one's commit message.

N=${1:-2}
msg="$(git log --format=%B -n 1 HEAD~$(( $N - 1 )))"
git reset --soft HEAD~$N && git commit -nm "$msg"

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Testing public gists.

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[
    {
        "date": "2017-12-28",
        "nteams": "95",
        "nusers": "295",
        "volume": "476.44",
        "xTitle": "2017-12-28"
    },
    {
        "date": "2017-12-21",

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A friend of mine recently started publishing on Svbtle, a super-classy, invite-only blogging platform. I like the super-classy part, not so much the invite-only part. Can we have classy and open?

The Promise of Svbtle

The only way I get to see Svbtle's editing interface is when its creator, Dustin Curtis, deigns to show me. Turns out I love it. It feels like Apple to me. And like Apple, Svbtle whiffs of totalitarianism. Are these two traits, high quality and crushing control, inseparable? From Dustin:

I’ve decided to open [Svbtle] up to a small number of vetted bloggers. At least at first. The goal is simple: when you see the Svbtle design, you should know that the content is guaranteed to be great.

When I see the Svbtle design, I think, "Gee, I wish I were part of this elite club." If it were really about the content, Svbtle would be more like The Economist. It would [downplay the identity](http://www.quora.com/The-Economist/Will-The-Econ

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# Given this List of Songs, Construct Arrays by Artist and Album
# Hint: Make use of the split() String Method
# http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/String.html#method-i-split

# Simple Example of Data Parsing
songs = [
  "The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs - Parades Go By",
  "The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost - Smoke and Mirrors",
  "Neutral Milk Hotel - In An Aeroplane Over the Sea - Holland 1945",
  "The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost - You, Me, and the Moon",

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Factored out of gratipay/gratipay.com#1404.

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Gittip's YC Application

Your YC username:

whit537

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PERSONAL_API_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

REPO=www.gittip.com
HEAD=issue-1426
ISSUE=1426

curl https://api.github.com/repos/gittip/$REPO/pulls \
    -u $PERSONAL_API_TOKEN: \
    -X POST \
    -d"{\"issue\": \"$ISSUE\", \"head\": \"$HEAD\", \"base\": \"master\"}"

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# This adds tab completion of git branch names (including remotes) to several
# git-related bash aliases I have set up:
#
#   co  git checkout
#   gb  git branch
#   gm  git merge
#
#
# Bugs:
#