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Exposing your clipboard over SSH

I frequently administer remote servers over SSH, and need to copy data to my clipboard. If the text I want to copy all fits on one screen, then I simply select it with my mouse and press CMD-C, which asks relies on m y terminal emulator (xterm2) to throw it to the clipboard.

This isn't practical for larger texts, like when I want to copy the whole contents of a file.

If I had been editing large-file.txt locally, I could easily copy its contents by using the pbcopy command:

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'date'
###################################################
#                         iii          fff        #
#   aa aa pp pp   pp pp       nn nnn  ff    oooo  #
#  aa aaa ppp  pp ppp  pp iii nnn  nn ffff oo  oo #
# aa  aaa pppppp  pppppp  iii nn   nn ff   oo  oo #
#  aaa aa pp      pp      iii nn   nn ff    oooo  #
#         pp      pp                              #
###################################################

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array=(one two three)
for number in ${(@)array}; do
  echo "$number"
done

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#!/bin/bash

# This way you can customize which branches should be skipped when
# prepending commit message. 
if [ -z "$BRANCHES_TO_SKIP" ]; then
  BRANCHES_TO_SKIP=(master develop test)
fi

BRANCH_NAME=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)
BRANCH_NAME="${BRANCH_NAME##*/}"

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security find-generic-password -a "insert_account_name_here" -g 2>&1 \
  | grep password \
  | sed -e "s/password: \"//" -e "s/\"//"

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Create RSS Feed of the releases of all your starred GitHub repositories

I have done this with Google Chrome.

1. Get your starred repositories from the GitHub API: https://api.github.com/users/USERNAME/starred?page=1&per_page=100
2. Open the Web developer tools in Chrome. Select the pre Tag in the HTML-View and execute this Javascript in the console: JSON.parse($0.innerText).map(function(repo) { return 'https://github.com/' + repo.full_name + '/releases.atom' }).join('\n'). This generates a list of the Release-Feed-URLs.
3. Copy the URL list to http://reader.feedshow.com/goodies/opml/OPMLBuilder-create-opml-from-rss-list.php If you have more than 100 starred repositories, you need repeat step 1 to 3 and increment the page in the URL in step 1 each time.
4. Click "Create OPML".
5. Save the OPML XML file to disk.

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How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

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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:

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#!/bin/bash
# g@ut.am

SSHCONFIG_Linux=$(cat << 'HERE-DOC'

Host *
  StrictHostKeyChecking no
  ServerAliveInterval 60
  ForwardAgent yes
  ServerAliveCountMax 4

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copy() {
	if [[ $1 =~ ^-?[hH] ]]; then

		echo "Intelligently copies command results, text file, or raw text to"
		echo "OS X clipboard"
		echo
		echo "Usage: copy [command or text]"
		echo "  or pipe a command: [command] | copy"
		return
	fi