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@ryanburnette
ryanburnette / readme.md
Last active May 15, 2020 14:36 — forked from joelverhagen/README.md
A Jekyll plugin for creating YouTube or Vimeo embed codes.

This is a Jekyll plugin for creating YouTube or Vimeo embed codes.

Usage

Put the plugin file video-embeds.rb in your _plugins directory. Create a tag specifying the type of video you want to embed with the first required argument, the video id.

{% youtube ab1234ab1 %}
@fabiofl
fabiofl / gist:5873100
Created June 27, 2013 00:41
Clear Mac OS X's icon cache.
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;
@bycoffe
bycoffe / README.md
Created June 26, 2013 20:19
Town/county map using d3 and TopoJSON

This is a demonstration of how to create a combination town/county map from a shapefile using TopoJSON and d3.js.

It includes a simplified version of the code used for the Massachusetts special Senate election results on The Huffington Post.

Get the data

Download a shapefile of Massachusetts towns from the state's GIS site:

wget http://wsgw.mass.gov/data/gispub/shape/census2000/towns/census2000towns_poly.exe
@zachleat
zachleat / reading_time.rb
Last active October 21, 2020 23:00
Read this in X minutes Liquid Filter Plugin (for Jekyll)
# 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
@rclark
rclark / L.TopoJSON.js
Last active December 7, 2022 00:23
TopoJSON-aware Leaflet layer
/*
You'll need something like this in your HTML:
<script src="http://d3js.org/topojson.v1.min.js"></script>
*/
L.TopoJSON = L.GeoJSON.extend({
addData: function(jsonData) {
if (jsonData.type === "Topology") {
for (key in jsonData.objects) {
geojson = topojson.feature(jsonData, jsonData.objects[key]);
@davidtheclark
davidtheclark / isElementInViewport.js
Created May 4, 2013 02:00
JavaScript: Is element in viewport?
/*
No jQuery necessary.
Thanks to Dan's StackOverflow answer for this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/123999/how-to-tell-if-a-dom-element-is-visible-in-the-current-viewport
*/
function isElementInViewport(el) {
var rect = el.getBoundingClientRect();
return (
rect.top >= 0 &&
@jsvine
jsvine / draft.md
Created August 8, 2012 14:56
Why I love Tabletop.js but don't use it in production

Tabletop.js is a fantastic, open-source JavaScript library that lets developers easily integrate data from Google Spreadsheets into their online projects. I've used it, even contributed a minor feature, and love it for prototyping. Non-programmers love being able to update a project via Google Spreadsheets' hyper-intuitive interface.

That said, I'm extraordinarily wary of using Tabletop in production. Instead, at the Wall Street Journal, we use a bit of middleware to "prune" our Google Spreadsheets-based data and then cache it on our own servers. A few brief reasons:

@liamdon
liamdon / gist:2467603
Created April 22, 2012 23:53
CoffeeScript, Jade and Stylus syntax highlighting in Sublime Text 2

Step 1: Clone the bundles into your Sublime Text packages directory

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 2/Packages
git clone git://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script-tmbundle CoffeeScript
git clone https://github.com/miksago/jade-tmbundle.git Jade
git clone https://github.com/LearnBoost/stylus.git Stylus

Step 2: Restart Sublime Text 2

@yeban
yeban / jekyll.tag-cloud.rb
Created April 3, 2012 07:36
Flexible, logarithmic distribution, tag cloud for Jekyll.
# Copyright (C) 2011 Anurag Priyam - MIT License
module Jekyll
# Jekyll plugin to generate tag clouds.
#
# The plugin defines a `tag_cloud` tag that is rendered by Liquid into a tag
# cloud:
#
# <div class='cloud'>
@joelverhagen
joelverhagen / README.md
Created February 12, 2012 02:14
Jekyll YouTube Embed Plugin

This is a plugin meant for Jekyll.

Example use:

Easily embed a YouTube video. Just drop this file in your _plugins directory.

{% youtube oHg5SJYRHA0 %}