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btoone / curl.md
Last active October 7, 2026 22:10
A curl tutorial using GitHub's API

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin
@MohamedAlaa
MohamedAlaa / tmux-cheatsheet.markdown
Last active October 1, 2026 18:55
tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname
@davfre
davfre / bamfilter_oneliners.md
Last active September 29, 2026 20:06
SAM and BAM filtering oneliners
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active September 24, 2026 09:33
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

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.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@brandonb927
brandonb927 / osx-for-hackers.sh
Last active September 20, 2026 16:21
OSX for Hackers: Yosemite/El Capitan Edition. This script tries not to be *too* opinionated and any major changes to your system require a prompt. You've been warned.
#!/bin/sh
###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###
# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx
@elowy01
elowy01 / BCFtools cheat sheet
Last active August 1, 2026 21:28
BCFtools cheat sheet
*bcftools filter
*Filter variants per region (in this example, print out only variants mapped to chr1 and chr2)
qbcftools filter -r1,2 ALL.chip.omni_broad_sanger_combined.20140818.snps.genotypes.hg38.vcf.gz
*printing out info for only 2 samples:
bcftools view -s NA20818,NA20819 filename.vcf.gz
*printing stats only for variants passing the filter:
bcftools view -f PASS filename.vcf.gz
@earthgecko
earthgecko / bash.generate.random.alphanumeric.string.sh
Last active April 25, 2026 07:50
shell/bash generate random alphanumeric string
#!/bin/bash
# bash generate random alphanumeric string
#
# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (upper and lowercase) and
NEW_UUID=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1)
# bash generate random 32 character alphanumeric string (lowercase only)
cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1
@nevesnunes
nevesnunes / pdftitle.py
Last active April 1, 2026 04:38 — forked from hanjianwei/pdftitle.py
Extract title from pdf file.
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
"""
Extract title from PDF file.
Dependencies:
pip install --user unidecode pyPDF PDFMiner
Usage:
find . -name "*.pdf" | xargs -I{} pdftitle -d tmp --rename {}
@hrldcpr
hrldcpr / tree.md
Last active January 24, 2026 21:18
one-line tree in python

One-line Tree in Python

Using Python's built-in defaultdict we can easily define a tree data structure:

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

That's it!

@andy-thomason
andy-thomason / Genomics_A_Programmers_Guide.md
Created May 14, 2019 13:32
Genomics a programmers introduction

Genomics - A programmer's guide.

Andy Thomason is a Senior Programmer at Genomics PLC. He has been witing graphics systems, games and compilers since the '70s and specialises in code performance.

https://www.genomicsplc.com