GregBaugues

# The OAuth access token provided by the Google API expires in 60 minutes. After expiration,
# you must exchange a refresh token for a new access token. Unfortunately, the the Google API 
# ruby gem does not include a method for refreshing access tokens. 

# You can read up on how to refresh an access token here: 
# https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2WebServer#refresh

# This Token model implements that process. It's based off of a Token model that can be created 
# by running: 
# rails g model Token token:text refresh_token:string expires_at:datetime

joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

skratchdot

// source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11058858
function ab2str(buf) {
  return String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint16Array(buf));
}

wrburgess

class InitialMigration < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0]
  def change
    enable_extension "pgcrypto" unless extension_enabled?("pgcrypto")
  end
end

romainl

" 24 simple pseudo-text objects
" -----------------------------
" i_ i. i: i, i; i| i/ i\ i* i+ i- i#
" a_ a. a: a, a; a| a/ a\ a* a+ a- a#
" can take a count: 2i: 3a/
for char in [ '_', '.', ':', ',', ';', '<bar>', '/', '<bslash>', '*', '+', '-', '#' ]
	execute "xnoremap i" . char . " :<C-u>execute 'normal! ' . v:count1 . 'T" . char . "v' . (v:count1 + (v:count1 - 1)) . 't" . char . "'<CR>"
	execute "onoremap i" . char . " :normal vi" . char . "<CR>"
	execute "xnoremap a" . char . " :<C-u>execute 'normal! ' . v:count1 . 'F" . char . "v' . (v:count1 + (v:count1 - 1)) . 'f" . char . "'<CR>"
	execute "onoremap a" . char . " :normal va" . char . "<CR>"

romainl

My Vim-related gists

Long-form

• How to use Tim Pope's Pathogen
• Idiomatic vimrc (superseded by idiomatic-vimrc)
• Clipboard sharing on Mac OS X is easy
• Apprentice — The Making Of
• Vim: pushing built-in features beyond their limits
• The right way to override any highlighting if you don't want to edit the colorscheme file directly

avesus

# I love super fast keyboard. Most of my friends and colleagues can't follow
# I use `atkbd.softrepeat=1` on the kernel command line.
# Even Visual Assist plugin in Visual Studio doubles keyboard repeat rate with _a reason_.
# I'm working on my laptop without X installed to avoid procrastination.
# I've spend a working day googling how to make `kbdrate` using slower delay than 250.
# Add this to your /etc/profile.d/kbdrate.sh: sudo kbdrate -r 82 -d 150 if you want it in console.
# Note that it will force you type password twice. I didn't find any workarounds.
xset r rate 150 82

# When exiting from Vim, just type

iamcaleberic

Enabling Pulse Audio Equaliser Arch Linux

• Install the pulseaudio package.

   $ pacman -S pulseaudio
  

• Install control module and equlizer

   $ pacman -S pulseaudio-equalizer pavucontrol
  

• Install gst-plugins-good if your intended program has a legacy GStreamer implementation.

hurricane-voronin

Naming Classes Without a 'Manager'

• SomethingManager
• Design Patterns
  • Creational
    • Factory Method
    • Abstract Factory
    • Builder
• Prototype

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}