romainl

Vim: pushing built-in features beyond their limits

The situation

Searching can be an efficient way to navigate the current buffer.

The first search commands we learn are usually / and ?. These are seriously cool, especially with the incsearch option enabled which lets us keep typing to refine our search pattern. / and ? really shine when all we want is to jump to something we already have our eyeballs on but they are not fit for every situation:

• when we want to search something that's not directly there, those two commands can make us lose context very quickly,
• when we need to compare the matches.

ekmett

{-# language KindSignatures #-}
{-# language PolyKinds #-}
{-# language DataKinds #-}
{-# language TypeFamilies #-}
{-# language RankNTypes #-}
{-# language NoImplicitPrelude #-}
{-# language FlexibleContexts #-}
{-# language MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
{-# language GADTs #-}
{-# language ConstraintKinds #-}

pyrtsa

When installing Haskell Platform fails on Mac OS X (with quick fix below)

I was fighting with Haskell last weekend. At first, I couldn't install some missing libraries with Cabal, and then, when trying to find out what's wrong, I ended up removing the whole Haskell installation — only to find out I could no longer install neither the Haskell Platform nor even just Cabal Install! The warnings I would see were more or less about the use of the single quote in source code:

Preprocessing library text-0.11.2.3...

Data/Text.hs:6:52:
     warning: missing terminating ' character [-Winvalid-pp-token]

-- Copyright : (c) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Bryan O'Sullivan,

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:

mislav

connection = Faraday::Connection.new('http://example.com') do |builder|
  builder.request :url_encoded  # for POST/PUT params
  builder.adapter :net_http
end

# same as above, short form:
connection = Faraday.new 'http://example.com'

# GET
connection.get '/posts'