dergachev

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.

Instructions

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

johnbender

// Disable bold. 
term_.prefs_.set('enable-bold', false) 

// Use this for Solarized Dark 
term_.prefs_.set('background-color', "#002b36");
term_.prefs_.set('foreground-color', "#839496");

term_.prefs_.set('color-palette-overrides', [
  '#073642', 
  '#dc322f', 

kleinmatic

• don't blow your deadline
• don't be wrong

dannguyen

This example shows basic usage of mdbtools to extract CSV/SQL from Microsoft databases, but also involves a fairly convoluted Bash loop. For a simpler example, go here: Using mdbtools to extract CSV data from the FAA Wildlife Strike Database

Working with Access files from the command line

Use mdbtools: https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools

If you're on a Mac, you can install mdbtools via homebrew:

brew install mdbtools

mitsuhiko

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Quick and dirty demonstration of CVE-2014-0160 by
# Jared Stafford (jspenguin@jspenguin.org)
# Modified so that it finds cookies

import sys
import struct
import socket
import time
import select

jashkenas

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

cmds = []
cmds << "git co gh-pages"
cmds << "git merge master"
cmds << "git push github gh-pages"
cmds << "git co master"

system cmds.join("&&")

kleinmatic

Open Source code doesn’t always come in big complex packages. At ProPublica we sometimes share small, simple snippets of using GitHub "Gists." These Gists range from single-byte file delimiters to an entire JavaScript framework for making stepper graphics. They rarely have documentation and don’t even always have names, but they can be super-useful. Here are some we’ve shared over the past few years:

• A simple way to grab remote template elements in your Rails app (after Brian Boyer's RemoteSnippets) https://gist.github.com/1664329
• A single byte gist that contains ASCII character 28, which the FEC uses as a field delimiter. https://gist.github.com/2191300
• A [quine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) in Ruby https://gist.github.com/523940
• Check links on a page using JavaScript [https://gist.github.com/

mattmcmanus

// MIXINS

vendor(prop, args)
  -webkit-{prop} args
  -moz-{prop} args
  -o-{prop} args
  {prop} args

animation()
  vendor('animation', arguments)

dwtkns

# This is a shell function to quickly grab the data for a given Landsat 8 tile ID from Google's servers
# For example:
# l8get LC81690352014169LGN00

# The echo at the end is to remind myself of the syntax for extracting bands 8, 4, 3, and 2. (Pansharp, Red, Green, Blue)

# On OSX this would go into your ~/.bash_profile file.
# Requires gsutil from https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil_install
# Most useful in conjunction with USGS' Earth Explorer: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

jayb

/*

  Usage:

  When generating a page:
    var abTest = new AbTest('your-test-slug');

    if (abTest.variation == 0)
      $('#thediv').addClass('red');
    else if (abTest.variation == 1)