mikermcneil

Regular Expressions in JavaScript: A crash course

I frequently find myself trying to quickly explain the basics of JavaScript regexp, and doing a hasty or incomplete job. Instead, I'm making this. It is by no means a complete reference. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp for that.

Common syntax

Things that match one character

• . - any character
• [abc] - any character that matches one of the characters inside the brackets (in this case "a", "b", or "c")

mikermcneil

Updating jshint in Sublime Text 2 (Sublime Linter)

I wanted my built-in syntax highlighting to support the latest stuff from jshint. Like nocomma.

But unfortunately, I'm using Sublime Text 2, because I'm a luddite and bad person and subhuman really. So I clawed my way up my macbook's legs and took a look around.

Finding where you're supposed to put it

In sublime text 2, after some searching, I was able to find Sublime Linter's copy of jshint here:

mikermcneil

Toggle MacOS X Notification Center on or off

This gist is to remind me (and anyone else who it helps) how to quickly disable and re-enable Notification Center.

Set Up Bash Aliases

Installation

1. Open your terminal (<⌘ + ␣ (spacebar)>, then type "terminal", then press <↩ (enter)>).

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;

mikermcneil

DONT READ THiS!

The official, up-to-date version of this document is here.

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