gmccreight

" copy all this into a vim buffer, save it, then...
" source the file by typing :so %
" Now the vim buffer acts like a specialized application for mastering vim

" There are two queues, Study and Known.  Depending how confident you feel
" about the item you are currently learning, you can move it down several
" positions, all the way to the end of the Study queue, or to the Known
" queue.

" type ,, (that's comma comma)

harmstyler

Moving from jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

joaocunha

This is no longer a bug. I'm keeping the gist for historical reasons, as it helped to get it fixed. Make sure to read the notes by the end of the post.

How to remove hide the select arrow in Firefox using -moz-appearance:none;

TL;DR (or, the fix)

1. Set -moz-appearance to none. This will "reset" the styling of the element;
2. Set text-indent to 0.01px. This will "push" the text a tiny bit^[1] to the right;

alfredormz

ruby -run -e httpd . -p 5000

zachleat

# Outputs the reading time

# Read this in “about 4 minutes”
# Put into your _plugins dir in your Jekyll site
# Usage: Read this in about {{ page.content | reading_time }}

module ReadingTimeFilter
	def reading_time( input )
		words_per_minute = 180

kungfufighting

# Using the web automation driver (watir-webdriver) through the tor network
# Automates webpage actions & bypasses the voting limit on polldaddy
# Casts a vote every 3 seconds for a total of 1000 votes
require 'watir-webdriver'

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile.proxy = Selenium::WebDriver::Proxy.new :http => '127.0.0.1:8118'
b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => profile
#b = Watir::Browser.new :firefox
b.goto '/polldaddy.com/poll/7040303/'

kungfufighting

require 'open-uri'
pollNumber = '7040303'
ourPick = '31993122'
uriString = 'http://polldaddy.com/n/64270c358614e8ef9383968590e82f73/'.concat(7040303).concat('?').concat(Time.now.to_i.to_s())
puts uriString

# Headers
HEADERS = {
  'Host'            => 'polldaddy.com',
  'User-Agent'      => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7',

tychio

var backtop = document.getElementById('backtop');//need a button id is 'backtop'
backtop.onclick = function () {
    backTimer = setInterval(_back, 30);
};
var backTimer;
function _back () {
    var _body = document.documentElement;
    if (!_body.scrollTop) {
        _body = document.body;
    }

SlexAxton

gifify() {
  if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then
    if [[ $2 == '--good' ]]; then
      ffmpeg -i $1 -r 10 -vcodec png out-static-%05d.png
      time convert -verbose +dither -layers Optimize -resize 600x600\> out-static*.png  GIF:- | gifsicle --colors 128 --delay=5 --loop --optimize=3 --multifile - > $1.gif
      rm out-static*.png
    else
      ffmpeg -i $1 -s 600x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=3 > $1.gif
    fi
  else

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: