desandro

I'm having trouble understanding the benefit of require.js. Can you help me out? I imagine other developers have a similar interest.

From Require.js - Why AMD:

The AMD format comes from wanting a module format that was better than today's "write a bunch of script tags with implicit dependencies that you have to manually order"

I don't quite understand why this methodology is so bad. The difficult part is that you have to manually order dependencies. But the benefit is that you don't have an additional layer of abstraction.

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jareware

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

willurd

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

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

kozo002

jQuery.fn.brightness = function() {
  var bg_color, rgba, y;
  bg_color = this.css('background-color');
  if ((bg_color != null) && bg_color.length) {
    rgba = bg_color.match(/^rgb(?:a)?\(([0-9]{1,3}),\s([0-9]{1,3}),\s([0-9]{1,3})(?:,\s)?([0-9]{1,3})?\)$/);
    if (rgba != null) {
      if (rgba[4] === '0') {
        if (this.parent().length) return this.parent().brightness();
      } else {
        y = 2.99 * rgba[1] + 5.87 * rgba[2] + 1.14 * rgba[3];

addyosmani

What are we trying to observe? Raw object data.

// Objects
var obj = { id: 2 };
obj.id = 3; // obj == { id: 3 }
 
// Arrays
var arr = ['foo', 'bar'];
arr.splice(1, 1, 'baz'); // arr == ['foo', 'baz'];

mrflix

/**
 * @author qiao / https://github.com/qiao
 * @author mrdoob / http://mrdoob.com
 * @author alteredq / http://alteredqualia.com/
 * @author WestLangley / http://github.com/WestLangley
 * @author erich666 / http://erichaines.com
 * @author mrflix / http://felixniklas.de
 * 
 * released under MIT License (MIT)
 */

takeshixx

#!/usr/bin/env python2
"""
Author: takeshix <takeshix@adversec.com>
PoC code for CVE-2014-0160. Original PoC by Jared Stafford (jspenguin@jspenguin.org).

Supportes all versions of TLS and has STARTTLS support for SMTP,POP3,IMAP,FTP and XMPP.
"""

import sys,struct,socket
from argparse import ArgumentParser

staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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addyosmani

CSS Layout Debugger

A tweet-sized debugger for visualizing your CSS layouts. Outlines every DOM element on your page a random (valid) CSS hex color.

One-line version to paste in your DevTools

Use $$ if your browser aliases it:

~ 108 byte version