joshbuchea

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See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

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rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

DrewML

Theming Slack for OSX

So, you love Slack, but you hate applications with large white backgrounds? Why not use Dark Mode!

Unfortunately, Slack does not have a Dark Mode, although it's on their list of possibilities.

But, don't fret - there is a solution! Because the slack native desktop apps are just wrappers around a web app, we can inject our own CSS to customize the application to our liking.

How to (OSX Only)

foxumon

require 'csv'
 
file = "#{Rails.root}/public/data.csv"
 
table = User.all;0 # ";0" stops output.  Change "User" to any model.
 
CSV.open( file, 'w' ) do |writer|
  writer << table.first.attributes.map { |a,v| a }
  table.each do |s|
    writer << s.attributes.map { |a,v| v }

cvan

Instructions

CloudFlare is an awesome reverse cache proxy and CDN that provides DNS, free HTTPS (TLS) support, best-in-class performance settings (gzip, SDCH, HTTP/2, sane Cache-Control and E-Tag headers, etc.), minification, etc.

1. Make sure you have registered a domain name.
2. Sign up for CloudFlare and create an account for your domain.
3. In your domain registrar's admin panel, point the nameservers to CloudFlare's (refer to this awesome list of links for instructions for various registrars).
4. From the CloudFlare settings for that domain, enable HTTPS/SSL and set up a Page Rule to force HTTPS redirects. (If you want to get fancy, you can also enable automatic minification for text-based assets [HTML/CSS/JS/SVG/etc.], which is a pretty cool feature if you don't want already have a build step for minification.)
5. If you

bpierre

Switch To Vim For Good

NOTE: This guide has moved to https://github.com/bpierre/switch-to-vim-for-good

This guide is coming from an email I used to send to newcomers to Vim. It is not intended to be a complete guide, it is about how I switched myself.

My decision to switch to Vim has been made a long time ago. Coming from TextMate 1, I wanted to learn an editor that is Open Source (so I don’t lose my time learning a tool that can be killed), cross platform (so I can use it everywhere), and powerful enough (so I won’t regret TextMate). For these reasons, Vim has always been the editor I wanted to learn, but it took me several years before I did it in a way that works for me. I tried to switch progressively, using the Janus Vim distribution for a few months, then got back to using TextMate 2 for a time, waiting for the next attempt… here is what finally worked for me.

Original gist with comments: https://gist.github.com/bpierre/0a0025d348b6001394e0

elwinar

package main

import (
	"unicode"
)

// ToSnake convert the given string to snake case following the Golang format:
// acronyms are converted to lower-case and preceded by an underscore.
func ToSnake(in string) string {
	runes := []rune(in)

DerLobi

#!/bin/sh
#
# This pre-commit hook looks for `fdescribe`, `fcontext`, `fit`, `fspecify` and `fexample` in the
# staged files and exits with an error code of 1 if there are such changes.
#

STATUS=0

DESCRIBEFILES=$(git diff --staged -G"^\s*fdescribe\(" --name-only | wc -l)
if [ $DESCRIBEFILES -gt 0 ]

hopsoft

# lib/tasks/db.rake
namespace :db do

  desc "Dumps the database to db/APP_NAME.dump"
  task :dump => :environment do
    cmd = nil
    with_config do |app, host, db, user|
      cmd = "pg_dump --host #{host} --username #{user} --verbose --clean --no-owner --no-acl --format=c #{db} > #{Rails.root}/db/#{app}.dump"
    end
    puts cmd

moshekaplan

#!/usr/bin/env python

'''
Uses SURF to match two images.

Based on the sample code from opencv:
  samples/python2/find_obj.py

USAGE
  find_obj.py <image1> <image2>