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lancejpollard / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Created September 3, 2013 21:45 — forked from dergachev/GIF-Screencast-OSX.md

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@tmcw
tmcw / the_code_more.md
Created July 8, 2013 17:43
An unpublished blog post

The compiled code - the listing of laws in their most-current state that we could simply call 'The Code', is actually constructed by contractors like Westlaw and LexisNexis, who maintain the technology to manage it and hire people to read PDF-formatted bills from the Council's website and manually edit sections of the law to keep it up to date.

As a result, this contractor keeps the only complete digital copy of the code.

That is, the DC government creates changesets, or diffs, of the code. The code is the

@shesek
shesek / callable.coffee
Last active January 14, 2019 15:37
Decorate constructor functions, and have them return a callable object that delegates to a `callable()` method when invoked.
##########
### Moved to https://github.com/shesek/callable-klass
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"use strict"
# without strict mode, `this` defaults to window, so `(this?obj)`
# would always return window.
callable = (ctor) ->
@dergachev
dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active April 19, 2024 11:00
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

@schacon
schacon / leap.json
Created January 14, 2013 14:56
{
"hands": [
{
"direction": [
0.187837,
0.097272,
-0.976745
],
"id": 3,
"palmNormal": [
@mbostock
mbostock / .block
Last active June 16, 2019 03:59
Creating Thumbnails with GraphicsMagick
license: gpl-3.0
@mbostock
mbostock / .block
Last active March 1, 2024 06:07
The Gist to Clone All Gists
license: gpl-3.0
@ryanflorence
ryanflorence / Base.coffee
Created September 9, 2012 01:06
Base CoffeeScript Class, surprisingly useful.
################################################################################
# script: Base.coffee
# author: Ryan Florence <rpflorence@gmail.com>
# license: MIT-Style License
#
# A surprisingly useful base class for CoffeeScript. Inspired by my old
# friend, MooTools Class. Provides default options, mixins, and custom events.
class Base
defaults: {}
@enjalot
enjalot / cors_server.py
Created June 10, 2012 06:19
Allow CORS with python simple http server
import SimpleHTTPServer
class CORSHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def send_head(self):
"""Common code for GET and HEAD commands.
This sends the response code and MIME headers.
Return value is either a file object (which has to be copied
to the outputfile by the caller unless the command was HEAD,
and must be closed by the caller under all circumstances), or
@btoone
btoone / curl.md
Last active April 2, 2024 20:18
A curl tutorial using GitHub's API

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin