benjie

Long Live CoffeeScript and Long Live ES6

Clearly ES6 is a huge improvement over ES5, and tools like [6to5][] allow us to use these cool features now. I was reading [Replace CoffeeScript with ES6][replace coffeescript] by [Blake Williams][] and thought it was a great summary of how ES6 solves many of the same problems that CoffeeScript solves; however I'd like to comment on a few of Blake's points and talk about why I'll be sticking with CoffeeScript.

Classes

Classes in ES6 (like many of the syntax changes in ES6) are very similar to the CoffeeScript equivalent. To support browsers that are not fully ES5 compliant (e.g. IE8-), however, we still can't really use getters/setters, so ignoring these the comparison is:

marcusps

Svpply to Tumblr

Svpply is a neat service that, in essence, allowed people to track and share items they wanted. In essence, it is a wishlist service that works across all sites, and captures the price and the image of the item you want.

Svpply is shutting down, but gladly they are allowing users to download their data -- in essence, all the info they stored in the Svpply site. I still wanted the data accessible on the web, and this turned out to be a near trivial project to write in python.

Limits: You can only upload 150 pictures a day to Tumblr. This may mean you need to break you wants.csv file into chunks of 150 lines.

See PyTumblr and Tumblr's API console for details.

cherta

var gulp        = require('gulp'),
    gutil       = require('gulp-util'),
    styl        = require('gulp-styl'),
    inline      = require('rework-inline'),
    csso        = require('gulp-csso'),
    uglify      = require('gulp-uglify'),
    jade        = require('gulp-jade'),
    coffee      = require('gulp-coffee'),
    concat      = require('gulp-concat'),
    livereload  = require('gulp-livereload'), // Livereload plugin needed: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/livereload/jnihajbhpnppcggbcgedagnkighmdlei

JedWatson

This is an example of how to scaffold API endpoints to list / get / create / update / delete Posts in a Keystone website.

It's a modification of the default project created with the yo keystone generator (see https://github.com/JedWatson/generator-keystone)

Gists don't let you specify full paths, so in the project structure the files would be:

routes-index.js        -->    /routes/index.js         // modified to add the api endpoints
routes-api-posts.js    -->    /routes/api/posts.js     // new file containing the Post API route controllers

natcl

import os
import sys

path = sys.argv[1]

input_format = ['.' + x for x in sys.argv[2].split()]
output_format = '.' + sys.argv[3]
args = sys.argv[4]

files = [os.path.join(path,f) for f in os.listdir(path) if os.path.splitext(f.lower())[1] in input_format]

mshafrir

{
    "AL": "Alabama",
    "AK": "Alaska",
    "AS": "American Samoa",
    "AZ": "Arizona",
    "AR": "Arkansas",
    "CA": "California",
    "CO": "Colorado",
    "CT": "Connecticut",
    "DE": "Delaware",

nrk

ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams "lolwut.mp4" > "lolwut.mp4.json"