cobyism

Deploying a subfolder to GitHub Pages

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.

For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.

Step 1

Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).

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:

millermedeiros

Setup Mac OS X

I've done the same process every couple years since 2013 (Mountain Lion, Mavericks, High Sierra, Catalina) and I updated the Gist each time I've done it.

I kinda regret for not using something like Boxen (or anything similar) to automate the process, but TBH I only actually needed to these steps once every couple years...

branneman

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

IanColdwater

Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

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jimmyhillis

Standard bindings

• Move left between words: ⌥← | send escape sequence | b
• Move right between words: ⌥→ | send escapes sequence | f
• Start of the line: ⌘← | send escape sequence | [H
• End of the line ⌘→ | send escape sequence | [F
• Delete previous word ⌥←Delete | send hex code | 0x1B 0x08
• Delete entire line ⌘←Delete | send hex code | 0x15

Don't forget the amazing icons ⌘ = command and ⌥ = options/alt (why oh why?).

stonehippo

Install a new Ruby with rbenv on Mac OS (and make yourself a superhero)

If you're doing stuff with Ruby on a Mac, e.g. installling Jekyll or something, by default you'll end up having to use the sudo command to do stuff, since the permission to modify the default config is not available to your user account.

This sucks and should be avoided. Here's how to fix that.

Installing a new Ruby

To make this better, we are going install a new, custom Ruby. This used to be a big, scary thing, but thanks to the awesome tools Homebrew and rbenv, it's a snap.*

A word of warning: you will have to use Terminal to install this stuff. If you are uncomfortable with text, words, and doing stuff with your computer beyond pointing and hoping, this may not work well for you. But if that's the case, I'm not sure why you were trying to use Ruby in the first place.

isaacs

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

bodokaiser

import React from "react"
import { CognitoUser } from "@aws-amplify/auth"

import { useAuth } from "./hooks"
import { SignInInput } from "./types"

interface AuthState {
  user: CognitoUser | null
  signIn(input : SignInInput): Promise<void>
  signOut(): Promise<void>

joelambert

Drop in replace functions for setTimeout() & setInterval() that 
make use of requestAnimationFrame() for performance where available
http://www.joelambert.co.uk

Copyright 2011, Joe Lambert.
Free to use under the MIT license.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php