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ericelliott / essential-javascript-links.md
Last active April 22, 2024 10:15
Essential JavaScript Links
local M = {
"neoclide/coc.nvim",
branch = "master",
build = "yarn install --frozen-lockfile",
}
M.config = function()
-- Some servers have issues with backup files, see #649
vim.opt.backup = false
vim.opt.writebackup = false
@robinsloan
robinsloan / langoliers.rb
Last active April 7, 2024 13:22
The Langoliers, a tweet deletion script
require "rubygems"
require "twitter"
require "json"
# things you must configure
TWITTER_USER = "your_username"
MAX_AGE_IN_DAYS = 1 # anything older than this is deleted
# get these from dev.twitter.com
CONSUMER_KEY = "your_consumer_key"
@DanHerbert
DanHerbert / fix-homebrew-npm.md
Last active February 12, 2024 17:18
Instructions on how to fix npm if you've installed Node through Homebrew on Mac OS X or Linuxbrew

OBSOLETE

This entire guide is based on an old version of Homebrew/Node and no longer applies. It was only ever intended to fix a specific error message which has since been fixed. I've kept it here for historical purposes, but it should no longer be used. Homebrew maintainers have fixed things and the options mentioned don't exist and won't work.

I still believe it is better to manually install npm separately since having a generic package manager maintain another package manager is a bad idea, but the instructions below don't explain how to do that.

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

Installing node through Homebrew can cause problems with npm for globally installed packages. To fix it quickly, use the solution below. An explanation is also included at the end of this document.

@RobertAKARobin
RobertAKARobin / safari.md
Last active January 5, 2024 05:41
Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues

...and obviously we're building a workaround. But I'm absolutely flabbergasted that a standard <input type="date"> HTML field, in a standard browser, from a company that bases its reputation good design, could be so dreadful.

The context

I'm the developer for a startup that sells a genetic test to recommend medications for high blood pressure. For medical reasons we need to know our customers' birth date. Most of our customers are in their 60s or older. We've found that many of them use iPads or iPhones. And they're the ones who complain to our customer support that our site is unusable.

The problem

@kevinelliott
kevinelliott / osx-10.10-setup.md
Last active December 1, 2023 08:21
Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Setup

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Custom recipe to get OS X 10.10 Yosemite running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. On average, I reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between distros.

This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.

You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your own needs.

Install Software

@krasnoukhov
krasnoukhov / 2013-01-07-profiling-memory-leaky-sidekiq-applications-with-ruby-2.1.md
Last active October 4, 2023 21:53
Profiling memory leaky Sidekiq applications with Ruby 2.1

My largest Sidekiq application had a memory leak and I was able to find and fix it in just few hours spent on analyzing Ruby's heap. In this post I'll show my profiling setup.

As you might know Ruby 2.1 introduced a few great changes to ObjectSpace, so now it's much easier to find a line of code that is allocating too many objects. Here is great post explaining how it's working.

I was too lazy to set up some seeding and run it locally, so I checked that test suite passes when profiling is enabled and pushed debugging to production. Production environment also suited me better since my jobs data can't be fully random generated.

So, in order to profile your worker, add this to your Sidekiq configuration:

if ENV["PROFILE"]
@opchaves
opchaves / install-vim8.txt
Last active December 17, 2020 06:47
Install Vim 8 with Python, Python 3, Ruby and Lua support on Ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get remove --purge vim vim-runtime vim-gnome vim-tiny vim-gui-common
sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-dev luajit libluajit-5.1 python-dev ruby-dev libperl-dev libncurses5-dev libatk1.0-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev
#Optional: so vim can be uninstalled again via `dpkg -r vim`
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/vim /usr/bin/vim
cd ~
@njonsson
njonsson / The difference between the junior and senior Rails developer
Created May 6, 2009 03:31
The difference between the junior and senior Rails developer — an extract of the discussion forum at the Rubyists LinkedIn group
Someone recently asked the following question in the discussion forum of the Rubyists LinkedIn group: What separates a junior Rails developer from a senior one?
My response follows. Join us at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=120725 to weigh in on this and other topics of interest to Rubyists. As of today there are almost 1,200 members, including numerous movers and shakers in the Ruby and Rails communities.
“Distinguishing between junior and senior people in the Rails world is not so different from making the distinction in other web development environments.
“Junior Rails people have not dealt with scaling issues to the degree that senior people have. Getting a public-facing Rails application to perform under significant stress is more challenging than doing the same with other building materials such as PHP. Senior people know how to performance-test Rails applications, where to look for bottlenecks, and how to eliminate them one after another until performance is acceptable in real conditions. The Ra
@jimmynotjim
jimmynotjim / more-mute-regex.md
Created July 19, 2012 14:37 — forked from imathis/tweetbot-mute-regex.md
Tweetbot can use regular expressions to mute tweets in your timeline and mentions.

##Simply annoying Tweets

Annoyingly extended words (4+ of the same letter in a phrase): OOOOHHHHMMMMYYYYGGGGOOOODDDD

([a-z])/1{4}

Tweet w/ just a single hashtag: #omgthissucks

^ *#[^ ]+$