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Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

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# Get the shortest match (least distance between start and end index) for all
# the query characters in the given text.
#
# Returns an array in format [firstIndex, matchLength, [matchIndexes]]
shortestMatch = (text, queryChars) ->
  starts = allIndexesOf(text, queryChars[0])

  return if starts.length is 0
  return [starts[0], 1, []] if queryChars.length is 1

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I use tmux splits (panes). Inside one of these panes there's a Vim process, and it has its own splits (windows).

In Vim I have key bindings C-h/j/k/l set to switch windows in the given direction. (Vim default mappings for windows switching are the same, but prefixed with C-W.) I'd like to use the same keystrokes for switching tmux panes.

An extra goal that I've solved with a dirty hack is to toggle between last active panes with C-\.

Here's how it should work:

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What did you do to get good at Rails?

  Read source code, wrote plugins

Who taught you what you know?

  Josh Susser! (about ActiveRecord)

Do you have any fond (or not so fond) memories of your learning experiences?

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Based on https://docs.getutm.app/guides/windows/

0. You will need:
   • A Windows 10 or Windows 11 license key;
   • UTM for Mac - the App Store version is offered as a way to support the developers, since it's paid, but has the same features as the free build.
1. Obtain scripts that bootstrap an arm64 Windows 11 22H2 (I've chosen Windows Home edition and not Pro);
2. brew install aria2 cabextract wimlib cdrtools minacle/chntpw/chntpw;
3. cd into the directory extracted in step 1 and bash uup_download_macos.sh - this will produce an ISO;
4. In the UTM app, create a new “Virtualize” machine and mount the ISO file from the previous step;
5. Check “Install drivers and SPICE tools”;

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#!/bin/bash
set -e

droplet=netflix
interface=Wi-Fi
us_regions=( nyc1 nyc2 nyc3 )

random_region() {
  echo ${us_regions[RANDOM % ${#us_regions[@]}]}
}

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javascript:window.location="https://cooked.wiki/"+window.location

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comments() {
  local issue="${1?}"
  shift 1
  paginate hub api --cache 3600 graphql -F issue="$issue" "$@" -f query='
    query ($owner: String = "{owner}", $repo: String = "{repo}", $issue: Int!, $per_page: Int = 30, $after: String) {
      repository(owner: $owner, name: $repo) {
        issueOrPullRequest(number: $issue) {
          ... on Issue {
            comments(first: $per_page, after: $after) {
              ...Comments

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// ~/docker/config.json
{
	"credsStore": "desktop",
	"credHelpers": {
		"docker.pkg.github.com": "gh",
		"ghcr.io": "gh"
	}
}