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octocat / .gitignore
Created February 27, 2014 19:38
Some common .gitignore configurations
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*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
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@jareware
jareware / SCSS.md
Last active July 11, 2026 19:42
Advanced SCSS, or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do

⇐ back to the gist-blog at jrw.fi

Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

@tuxfight3r
tuxfight3r / 01.bash_shortcuts_v2.md
Last active July 11, 2026 16:02
Bash keyboard shortcuts

Bash Shortcuts

visual cheetsheet

Moving

command description
ctrl + a Goto BEGINNING of command line
@joshbuchea
joshbuchea / semantic-commit-messages.md
Last active July 10, 2026 17:28
Semantic Commit Messages

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

Example

@LeCoupa
LeCoupa / bash-cheatsheet.sh
Last active July 10, 2026 13:41
Bash CheatSheet for UNIX Systems --> UPDATED VERSION --> https://github.com/LeCoupa/awesome-cheatsheets
#!/bin/bash
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# Name: Bash CheatSheet for Mac OSX
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# A little overlook of the Bash basics
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# Usage:
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# Author: J. Le Coupanec
# Date: 2014/11/04
@Kartones
Kartones / postgres-cheatsheet.md
Last active July 9, 2026 10:45
PostgreSQL command line cheatsheet

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

  • -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
  • -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)
@subfuzion
subfuzion / curl.md
Last active July 8, 2026 20:07
curl POST examples

Common Options

-#, --progress-bar Make curl display a simple progress bar instead of the more informational standard meter.

-b, --cookie <name=data> Supply cookie with request. If no =, then specifies the cookie file to use (see -c).

-c, --cookie-jar <file name> File to save response cookies to.

@hellerbarde
hellerbarde / latency.markdown
Created May 31, 2012 13:16 — forked from jboner/latency.txt
Latency numbers every programmer should know

Latency numbers every programmer should know

L1 cache reference ......................... 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict ............................ 5 ns
L2 cache reference ........................... 7 ns
Mutex lock/unlock ........................... 25 ns
Main memory reference ...................... 100 ns             
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy ............. 3,000 ns  =   3 µs
Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network ....... 20,000 ns  =  20 µs
SSD random read ........................ 150,000 ns  = 150 µs

Read 1 MB sequentially from memory ..... 250,000 ns = 250 µs

@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active July 5, 2026 17:25
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@saetia
saetia / gist:1623487
Last active July 5, 2026 06:58
Clean Install – OS X 10.11 El Capitan

OS X Preferences


most of these require logout/restart to take effect

# Enable character repeat on keydown
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set a shorter Delay until key repeat