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lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active May 20, 2025 13:11
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"

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@harith
harith / shellmarks.sh
Last active September 18, 2022 07:50
Utilities to let you easily reach frequently visited but deeply nested directories.
# Utilities for quickly accessing frequently used directories in bash.
# Usage:
# $ cd /path/to/project/src/
# $ mark code # Will create a new shortcut.
# # Becomes interactive if a shortcut already exists
# # m is an alias for mark. You can also `m code`
#
# $ code # From now on, running this anywhere in the shell
# # will put you in /path/to/project/src/code
@jed
jed / how-to-set-up-stress-free-ssl-on-os-x.md
Last active February 27, 2025 16:31
How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

  • Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

  • Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

@maccman
maccman / jquery.ajax.queue.coffee
Last active January 13, 2018 12:03
Queueing jQuery Ajax requests. Usage $.ajax({queue: true})
$ = jQuery
queues = {}
running = false
queue = (name) ->
name = 'default' if name is true
queues[name] or= []
next = (name) ->
@lucasrizoli
lucasrizoli / gist:1603274
Created January 12, 2012 21:33
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