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:

jimbojsb

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

abhijeetchopra

How to "Schedule Automatic Backups" of your Google Sheets

This tutorial demonstrates how to use Google Apps Script to:

• Create copies of the Google Sheet in the desired destination folder automatically at set intervals.

• Append the time stamp with each backup file's name.

• Adjust time trigger for backing up every day/hour/minute.

fabiofl

sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;

reggi

How to setup AWS lambda function to talk to the internet and VPC

I'm going to walk you through the steps for setting up a AWS Lambda to talk to the internet and a VPC. Let's dive in.

So it might be really unintuitive at first but lambda functions have three states.

1. No VPC, where it can talk openly to the web, but can't talk to any of your AWS services.
2. VPC, the default setting where the lambda function can talk to your AWS services but can't talk to the web.
3. VPC with NAT, The best of both worlds, AWS services and web.

demonbane

#!/bin/sh

echo "What should the Application be called (no spaces allowed e.g. GCal)?"
read inputline
name="$inputline"

echo "What is the url (e.g. https://www.google.com/calendar/render)?"
read inputline
url="$inputline"

pmuellr

'use strict'

// see: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6157

var startTime  = process.hrtime()
var startUsage = process.cpuUsage()

// spin the CPU for 500 milliseconds
var now = Date.now()
while (Date.now() - now < 500)

starkcoffee

I got some nice tips from my soundcloud colleagues on what font they used for code in presentations:

http://input.fontbureau.com/

http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/

https://madmalik.github.io/mononoki/ 

I think Consolas looks good