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lxcodes / gist:1010364
Created June 6, 2011 14:27
Set Cursor at the End of a ContentEditable
function setEndOfContenteditable(contentEditableElement)
{
var range,selection;
if(document.createRange)//Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, IE 9+
{
range = document.createRange();//Create a range (a range is a like the selection but invisible)
range.selectNodeContents(contentEditableElement);//Select the entire contents of the element with the range
range.collapse(false);//collapse the range to the end point. false means collapse to end rather than the start
selection = window.getSelection();//get the selection object (allows you to change selection)
selection.removeAllRanges();//remove any selections already made

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

@mywarr
mywarr / AccessDump.py
Last active April 18, 2024 19:14
use mdbtools to convert .mdb to .sqlite and .csv
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# AccessDump.py
# A simple script to dump the contents of a Microsoft Access Database.
# It depends upon the mdbtools suite:
# http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/
import sys, subprocess, os
DATABASE = sys.argv[1]
@rhythmus
rhythmus / markdownForFileNames.md
Last active October 4, 2018 10:44
Proposal for a lightweight, database-less, general purpose, name-based file management app

Proposal for a lightweight, database-less, general purpose, name-based file management app

First draft, Easter Sunday 2014

In line with current trends toward lean and simple software solutions reviving and repurposing long-established standards (open plain text vs proprietary rich text formats; file-based static site generators vs bloated database-driven CMSs), the present proposal inquires into a method (and its application) to device a lightweight, general-purpose solution for small-scale digital asset management.

No database is to be used, there shall be no external dependencies, all information carriers should be self-containing, and everything would be file-based. The software would build on a (yet to be established) convention of file naming, which would store metadata for arbitrary files inside the file name, advancing its portability across platforms.

Put as a — somewhat far-fetched — YC-style one-liner pitch: this proposal is about *

@mathisonian
mathisonian / index.md
Last active March 22, 2023 05:31
requiring npm modules in the browser console

demo gif

The final result: require() any module on npm in your browser console with browserify

This article is written to explain how the above gif works in the chrome (and other) browser consoles. A quick disclaimer: this whole thing is a huge hack, it shouldn't be used for anything seriously, and there are probably much better ways of accomplishing the same.

Update: There are much better ways of accomplishing the same, and the script has been updated to use a much simpler method pulling directly from browserify-cdn. See this thread for details: mathisonian/requirify#5

inspiration

#! /usr/local/bin/fish
if test -n "$HOME" ;
set -xg NIX_LINK "$HOME/.nix-profile"
# Set the default profile.
if not test -L "$NIX_LINK" ;
echo "creating $NIX_LINK" >&2
set -l _NIX_DEF_LINK /nix/var/nix/profiles/default
/nix/store/cdybb3hbbxf6k84c165075y7vkv24vm2-coreutils-8.23/bin/ln -s "$_NIX_DEF_LINK" "$NIX_LINK"
end
@passcod
passcod / emscripten-build.sh
Created March 11, 2015 09:47
Emscripten build process for jq
emconfigure ./configure --disable-maintainer-mode
make clean
env CCFLAGS=-O2 emmake make LDFLAGS=-all-static CCFLAGS=-O2 -j4
cp jq jq.o
emcc -O2 jq.o -o jq.js
@jbrooksuk
jbrooksuk / markdown.css
Created April 10, 2015 16:36 — forked from imjasonh/markdown.css
Ordered list
* {
font-size: 12pt;
font-family: monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
cursor: default;
}
@brownl
brownl / markdown.css
Last active August 29, 2015 14:18 — forked from imjasonh/markdown.css
* {
font-size: 12pt;
font-family: monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
cursor: default;
}
@lsowen
lsowen / check_sig.go
Last active November 23, 2023 23:31
GPG Signature Verification in go (with golang.org/x/crypto/openpgp)
package main
import (
"fmt"
"golang.org/x/crypto/openpgp"
"os"
)
func main() {
keyRingReader, err := os.Open("signer-pubkey.asc.txt")