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chriselsner / nix-on-macos-catalina.md
Last active January 24, 2024 18:35
Nix on macOS Catalina

Nix on macOS Catalina

I'm writing this gist for my own records but it might help someone else too.

Installing Nix

Support for Catalina has improved a lot since the update was first rolled out.

Note: See the NixOS manual for discussion of the --darwin-use-unencrypted-nix-store-volume option.

Mobile Safari's 100% Height Dilemma

Whether you're developing a web application with native-ish UI, or just a simple modal popup overlay that covers the viewport, when it comes to making things work on iDevices in Mobile Safari, you're in for a decent amount of pain and suffering. Making something "100% height" is not as easy as it seems.

This post is a collection of Mobile Safari's gotchas and quirks on that topic, some with solutions and fixes, some without, in good parts pulled from various sources across the internets, to have it all in one place. Things discussed here apply to iOS8, iOS9 and iOS10.

The Disappearing Browser Chrome

Screen real estate on smartphones is limited, so Mobile Safari collapses the browser chrome (address bar and optional tab bar at the top, and tool bar at the bottom) when the user scrolls down. When you want to make something span exactly the height of the viewport, or pin something to the bottom of the screen, this can get tricky because the viewport changes size (or

@paulirish
paulirish / bling.js
Last active May 1, 2024 19:56
bling dot js
/* bling.js */
window.$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
Node.prototype.on = window.on = function (name, fn) {
this.addEventListener(name, fn);
}
NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
@jvns
jvns / interview-questions.md
Last active May 14, 2024 18:47
A list of questions you could ask while interviewing

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

@paulirish
paulirish / gist:4158604
Created November 28, 2012 02:08
Learn JavaScript concepts with recent DevTools features

Learn JavaScript concepts with the Chrome DevTools

Authored by Peter Rybin , Chrome DevTools team

In this short guide we'll review some new Chrome DevTools features for "function scope" and "internal properties" by exploring some base JavaScript language concepts.

Closures

Let's start with closures – one of the most famous things in JS. A closure is a function, that uses variables from outside. See an example:

@trey
trey / happy_git_on_osx.md
Last active February 18, 2024 10:46
Creating a Happy Git Environment on OS X

Creating a Happy Git Environment on OS X

Step 1: Install Git

brew install git bash-completion

Configure things:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

@dideler
dideler / bootstrapping.md
Last active May 8, 2024 14:38
Bootstrapping - a list of useful resources to get up and running quickly

Welcome!

UPDATE: This list is no longer maintained. I've moved it to its own repo so you can send suggestions as Pull Requests. https://github.com/dideler/bootstrapping/

For feedback or suggestions, please send a tweet (@dideler). Gist comments don't notify me. Pull requests aren't possible with gists (yet), so I don't recommend forking because then I can't easily get the change.

Starring this gist will give me an idea of how many people consider this list useful.