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• To make sure that the files you edit and create look good, you MUST ALWAYS use a command like the following one to export a rendered image, view it, understand how it looks and what needs improvement, and iterate - making updates to the excalidraw file, exporting, and reviewing again - until the results are pixel perfect.

npx excalidraw-brute-export-cli \
  --input slides.excalidraw \
  --output slides.png \
  --format png \
  --scale 2 \
  --embed-scene true

• ALWAYS export and review. NEVER declare the work on an Excalidraw drawing or presentation done until you've reviewed its rendered visual representation to verify and adjust as needed.

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Promptify

Turn messy dictated instructions to AI into neat prompts that are easy to read and modify.

I do most of my prompting by dictation, usually in very confused and messy form. To be able to review these prompts and amend them before submitting them to the AI, I use this meta-prompt.

I use a Raycast AI Command which reads my clipboard and runs the prompt using Gemini 2.5 Pro. But this can work just as well with any recent LLM and driver.

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Coding Agent Instructions for Working with SQLite

• Somewhat safe (instructed to ask for approvals before destructive ops)
• Verbose — keeps you in the loop about what operations it's doing
• Tested with GPT-5-high, GPT-5-medium, Claude 4 Sonnet
  • Be careful with inferior models that might not respect the instructions as strictly
• Drop this in your .ruler/ / ~/.config/ruler/ or wherever you keep instructions for your agent

Happy SQLiting! 🫶

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How we got Java instead of Self — a short history, the JIT breakthroughs, and a “Sliding Doors” take

1) From Smalltalk → Self (1986–1991)

• Roots: Self was designed in 1986 by David Ungar and Randall Smith as a radical simplification of Smalltalk: no classes, just prototypes (objects cloning and specialising other objects). Early work started at Xerox PARC, then moved to Stanford; the first compiler appeared in 1987. Public release: 1990. In 1991 the team joined Sun Microsystems. ([Self Language][1], [Wikipedia][2])
• The feel of the system: a live, image-based environment (like Smalltalk), with the Morphic GUI later ported to Squeak/Pharo and even the Lively Kernel. ([Wikipedia][3], [Gbracha][4])
• Why performance mattered: Self aimed for interactive, exploratory programming and speed. By the mid-90s, Self’s VMs hit ~½ the speed of optimised C on some benchmarks—astonishing for a dynamic, prototype-based language then. ([Wikipedia][2])

2) Th

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# --- OTel + log file prep (before nginx starts) ---
# Ensure /var/log/nginx exists
mkdir -p /var/log/nginx

# Replace default Docker symlinks (to stdout/stderr) with real files so the collector can tail them
for f in access.log error.log; do
  if [ -L "/var/log/nginx/$f" ]; then
    mv -f "/var/log/nginx/$f" "/var/log/nginx/$f.dockerlink" || true
  fi
  : > "/var/log/nginx/$f"

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[
  {
    "key": "tab",
    "command": "workbench.action.chat.switchToNextModel",
    "when": "chatInputHasFocus && chatIsEnabled && !lockedToCodingAgent && !quickChatHasFocus && chatLocation == 'panel'"
  }
]

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Do You like to YOLO?

You can auto-approve tool calls and terminal commands in Copilot’s Agent mode.

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With ❤️ from Eleanor < @intellectronica > ( OKIGU Consulting | Elite AI-assisted Coding )

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gistify.py

Create a gist with multiple files (including binaries) in a directory

By Eleanor Berger < @intellectronica > and Codex CLI / GPT-5.

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usage: gistify.py [-h] [--public | --secret] [directory]

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{
  "name": "GitHub → Todoist",
  "nodes": [
    {
      "parameters": {
        "rule": {
          "interval": [
            {
              "field": "minutes",

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.12"
# dependencies = [
#   "rich>=13.0.0",
#   "pyfiglet>=0.9.0",
# ]
# ///

"""Display a full-screen colorful banner that reads "I ❤️ GPT-5-mini".