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branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active April 11, 2025 10:39
Better local require() paths for Node.js

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active April 10, 2025 09:21
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

@defunkt
defunkt / startupriot.markdown
Last active January 18, 2025 01:28
Startup Riot 2009 Keynote

(This is the text of the keynote I gave at Startup Riot 2009. Will update when video becomes available.)

Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath, and I'm one of the co-founders of GitHub.

GitHub, if you haven't heard of it, has been described as "Facebook for developers." Which is great when talking about GitHub as a website, but not so great when describing GitHub as a business. In fact, I think we're the polar opposite of Facebook as a business: we're small, never took investment, and actually make money. Some have even called us successful.

Which I've always wondered about. Success is very vague, right? Probably even relative. How do you define it?

After thinking for a while I came up with two criteria. The first is profitability. We employ four people full time, one person part time, have thousands of paying customers, and are still growing. In fact, our rate of growth is increasing - which means January was our best month so far, and February is looking pretty damn good.

@technoweenie
technoweenie / github_oauth_busy_developer_guide.md
Created May 30, 2010 18:34
GitHub OAuth Busy Developer's Guide

GitHub OAuth Busy Developer's Guide

This is a quick guide to OAuth2 support in GitHub for developers. This is still experimental and could change at any moment. This Gist will serve as a living document until it becomes finalized at Develop.GitHub.com.

OAuth2 is a protocol that lets external apps request authorization to private details in your GitHub account without getting your password. All developers need to register their application before getting started.

Web Application Flow

  • Redirect to this link to request GitHub access:
@yang-wei
yang-wei / destructuring.md
Last active December 2, 2024 06:40
Elm Destructuring (or Pattern Matching) cheatsheet

Should be work with 0.18

Destructuring(or pattern matching) is a way used to extract data from a data structure(tuple, list, record) that mirros the construction. Compare to other languages, Elm support much less destructuring but let's see what it got !

Tuple

myTuple = ("A", "B", "C")
myNestedTuple = ("A", "B", "C", ("X", "Y", "Z"))
@jdkanani
jdkanani / notepad.html
Last active June 16, 2024 13:44 — forked from jakeonrails/Ruby Notepad Bookmarklet
This bookmarklet gives you a code editor in your browser with a single click.
data:text/html, <style type="text/css">.e{position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;}</style><div class="e" id="editor"></div><script src="http://d1n0x3qji82z53.cloudfront.net/src-min-noconflict/ace.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script><script>var e=ace.edit("editor");e.setTheme("ace/theme/monokai");e.getSession().setMode("ace/mode/ruby");</script>
<!--
For other language: Instead of `ace/mode/ruby`, Use
Markdown -> `ace/mode/markdown`
Python -> `ace/mode/python`
C/C++ -> `ace/mode/c_cpp`
Javscript -> `ace/mode/javascript`
Java -> `ace/mode/java`
Scala- -> `ace/mode/scala`
@edtsech
edtsech / lightning_talk_proposal.md
Last active January 31, 2023 07:29
Combining snapshot testing and component library -- ReactiveConf 2017 talk proposal

This is a proposal for a lightning talk at Reactive Conf. Please 🌟 this gist to push the proposal!

Combining snapshot testing and component library

Do you test presentational logic of your components? No? Yes, but you feel like you are writing a lot of dummy tests? You even probably use snapshot tests for that, but don't feel like you make enought value from them..

If so, click 🌟 button on that Gist!

I'll talk how our team is using snapshot testing to iterate faster,

@skojin
skojin / irb_require_without_bundler_hack.rb
Created January 25, 2011 13:33
workaround to load irb specific gem (loaded in .irbrc) in bundler environment, like rails3 console
# Add all gems in the global gemset to the $LOAD_PATH so they can be used in rails3 console with bundler
if defined?(::Bundler)
$LOAD_PATH.concat Dir.glob("#{ENV['rvm_path']}/gems/#{ENV['rvm_ruby_string']}@global/gems/*/lib")
end
<form action="https://launchpad.37signals.com/authenticate" method="post">
<input name="product" value="YOUR-PRODUCT" type="hidden" />
<input name="subdomain" value="YOUR-SUBDOMAIN" type="hidden" />
<p>Username<br />
<input name="username" id="username" type="text" /></p>
<p>Password<br />
<input name="password" id="password" type="password" /></p>
@ryanb
ryanb / rails_3_1_rc4_changes.md
Created May 6, 2011 01:10
The Changelogs for Rails 3.1 Beta 1

Railties 3.1 RC4

  • The new rake task assets:clean removes precompiled assets. [fxn]

  • Application and plugin generation run bundle install unless --skip-gemfile or --skip-bundle. [fxn]

  • Fixed database tasks for jdbc* adapters #jruby [Rashmi Yadav]

  • Template generation for jdbcpostgresql #jruby [Vishnu Atrai]