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@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active May 11, 2026 20:41
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@octocat
octocat / .gitignore
Created February 27, 2014 19:38
Some common .gitignore configurations
# Compiled source #
###################
*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so
# Packages #
@paulirish
paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active May 8, 2026 17:53
What forces layout/reflow. The comprehensive list.

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics
  • elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
@iamatypeofwalrus
iamatypeofwalrus / roll_ipython_in_aws.md
Last active May 7, 2026 00:48
Create an iPython HTML Notebook on Amazon's AWS Free Tier from scratch.

What

Roll your own iPython Notebook server with Amazon Web Services (EC2) using their Free Tier.

What are we using? What do you need?

  • An active AWS account. First time sign-ups are eligible for the free tier for a year
  • One Micro Tier EC2 Instance
  • With AWS we will use the stock Ubuntu Server AMI and customize it.
  • Anaconda for Python.
  • Coffee/Beer/Time
@Restuta
Restuta / framework-sizes.md
Last active May 4, 2026 12:23
Sizes of JS frameworks, just minified + minified and gzipped, (React, Angular 2, Vue, Ember)

Below is the list of modern JS frameworks and almost frameworks – React, Vue, Angular, Ember and others.

All files were downloaded from https://cdnjs.com and named accordingly. Output from ls command is stripped out (irrelevant stuff)

As-is (minified)

$ ls -lhS
566K Jan 4 22:03 angular2.min.js
@subfuzion
subfuzion / curl.md
Last active April 30, 2026 08:42
curl POST examples

Common Options

-#, --progress-bar Make curl display a simple progress bar instead of the more informational standard meter.

-b, --cookie <name=data> Supply cookie with request. If no =, then specifies the cookie file to use (see -c).

-c, --cookie-jar <file name> File to save response cookies to.

@yrevar
yrevar / imagenet1000_clsidx_to_labels.txt
Last active April 21, 2026 22:40
text: imagenet 1000 class idx to human readable labels (Fox, E., & Guestrin, C. (n.d.). Coursera Machine Learning Specialization.)
{0: 'tench, Tinca tinca',
1: 'goldfish, Carassius auratus',
2: 'great white shark, white shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias',
3: 'tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri',
4: 'hammerhead, hammerhead shark',
5: 'electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo',
6: 'stingray',
7: 'cock',
8: 'hen',
9: 'ostrich, Struthio camelus',
@chantastic
chantastic / on-jsx.markdown
Last active April 21, 2026 08:06
JSX, a year in

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

@msmith
msmith / couchdb-ec2-install.sh
Created August 25, 2011 17:26
Set up CouchDB on EC2
#!/bin/bash
#
# This script installs and configures couchdb on a fresh Amazon Linux AMI instance.
#
# Must be run with root privileges
# Tested with Amazon Linux AMI release 2011.02.1.1 (ami-8c1fece5)
#
export BUILD_DIR="$PWD"
@fta2012
fta2012 / DragTransform
Last active April 17, 2026 20:03
Slightly modified compiled coffeescript from this codepen: http://codepen.io/fta/pen/ifnqH. Paste into console on a page that has jQuery to load the two dependent libraries (jquery-ui and numericjs). Then call makeTransformable('#selector-name') to make that element WYSIWYG editable. Use inspector to get the CSS for the transforms.
var selector = 'img' // Replace this with the selector for the element you want to make transformable
jQuery.getScript('//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.min.js', function() {
jQuery.getScript('//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/numeric/1.2.6/numeric.min.js', function() {
(function() {
var $, applyTransform, getTransform, makeTransformable;
$ = jQuery;