jaseemabid

A bunch of good git tutorials

Intro to git

• Simplest intro to git by github and codeschool - Try Git

• PeepCode Git Internals PDF

• [Intro to github]

petewarden

require 'rubygems' if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'
require 'tempfile'

require File.join(ENV['JETPAC_PATH'], 'library/logger')
require File.join(ENV['JETPAC_PATH'], 'library/email')

def image_command(command)
  log "IMG: Running '#{command}'"
  result = system(command)
  if !result

saetia

OS X Preferences

---

most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat

mudasobwa

#
# Mudasobwa yadr theme.
#
# Based on Agnoster theme from https://gist.github.com/3712874
#
# NB! In order for this theme to render correctly, you will need a
# [Powerline-patched font](https://gist.github.com/1595572).
#
# Authors:
#   agnoster (original)

JamesChevalier

convmv manpage

Install convmv if you don't have it

sudo apt-get install convmv

Convert all files in a directory from NFD to NFC:

convmv -r -f utf8 -t utf8 --nfc --notest .

L422Y

I have spent quite a bit of time figuring out automounts of NFS shares in OS X...

Somewhere along the line, Apple decided allowing mounts directly into /Volumes should not be possible:

/etc/auto_master (see last line):

#
# Automounter master map
#

+auto_master # Use directory service

paulgambill

/**
 * Retrieves all the rows in the active spreadsheet that contain data and logs the
 * values for each row.
 * For more information on using the Spreadsheet API, see
 * https://developers.google.com/apps-script/service_spreadsheet
 */
function readRows() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var rows = sheet.getDataRange();
  var numRows = rows.getNumRows();

KhepryQuixote

Crawling Anonymously with Tor in Python

adapted from the article "Crawling anonymously with Tor in Python" by S. Acharya, Nov 2, 2013.

The most common use-case is to be able to hide one's identity using TOR or being able to change identities programmatically, for example when you are crawling a website like Google and you don’t want to be rate-limited or blocked via IP address.

Tor

Install Tor.

katemonkeys

Top Six Things You Need To Know About The Withings API*

*where “you” is probably a developer, or at least a strange user

I should preface this by saying that I got a Withings Smart Body Analyzer for Christmas last year and I’ve been generally happy with it. It purports to be able to take my heart rate through my bare feet and that seems not to work for my physiology, but overall I’m a fan. If if their Wikipedia page is to be believed they are having a pretty rad impact on making the Quantified Self movement more for normal people and they only have 20 full time employees. Also they try hard to use SI units, which I can get behind. Anyway, on to the rant.

I originally called this post “Everything wrong with the Withings API” and I meant it. For every useful field I can extract from their “award winning” app, I have spent an hour screaming at the inconsistencies in their implementation or inexplicable holes in their data

RReverser

// UPD:
// Now available as npm module!
// Check out https://github.com/RReverser/better-log for details.

console.log = (function (log, inspect) {
  return function () {
    return log.apply(this, Array.prototype.map.call(arguments, function (arg) {
      return inspect(arg, { depth: 1, colors: true });
    }));
  };