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IanColdwater / twittermute.txt
Last active April 22, 2024 17:26
Here are some terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit.
Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords
ActivityTweet
generic_activity_highlights
generic_activity_momentsbreaking
RankedOrganicTweet
suggest_activity
suggest_activity_feed
suggest_activity_highlights
suggest_activity_tweet

4. Specialize in the New

You already know the value of a niche - you go up in market value the more specialized you are in anything. So what do you specialize in?

There are many schools of thought, including ones where you could be a generalist that doesn't specialize in anything. I find one rule to be simplest and most effective above all: Specialize in the New.

Didn't we just agree to avoid FOMO? Well yes, thats an important distinction - don't specialize in everything new. Specializing means you have to say no to a lot of things. Just pick something new that fascinates you, and hopefully many others as well. Since you're learning in public, you'll know when you hit on a real nerve. Budget in the idea that you'll fail a few times before you find Your Thing.

Then the other big objection: There are plenty of jobs/money/etc in (fill in the blank older technology) too! This is usually followed by some big numbers and anecdata. "My brother's cousin's roommate's friend took this COBOL job and now he's ear

@joerayme
joerayme / LICENSE
Created July 5, 2013 13:33
Very simple Graphite widget for Dashing
Copyright (c) 2013 Couller Ltd. and Joseph Ray
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
@jbonney
jbonney / spotify_keybindings
Created June 9, 2013 13:22
Spotify - Linux key bindings. From XFCE / Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts configuration, assign the control command to their key. http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/12/linux-spotify-keybindings/
"dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause" XF86AudioPlay
"dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop" XF86AudioStop
"dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next" XF86AudioNext
"dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous" XF86AudioPrevious
/**
* Hide the addressbar on ios & android devices
* https://gist.github.com/yckart/5609969
*
* Based on the work from Nate Smith
* @see https://gist.github.com/nateps/1172490
*
* Copyright (c) 2013 Yannick Albert (http://yckart.com)
* Licensed under the MIT license (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
* 2013/07/10
@nateware
nateware / haproxy.conf
Created October 31, 2012 15:36
HAProxy sample config for EC2
#
# This config file is a combination of ideas from:
# http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1073-nuts-bolts-haproxy
# http://www.igvita.com/2008/05/13/load-balancing-qos-with-haproxy/
# http://wiki.railsmachine.com/HAProxy
# http://elwoodicious.com/2008/07/15/nginx-haproxy-thin-fastcgi-php5-load-balanced-rails-with-php-support/
# http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/01/09/using-haproxy-with-multiple-backends-aka-content-switching/
# http://wiki.railsmachine.com/HAProxy
# http://gist.github.com/raw/25482/d39fb332edf977602c183194a1cf5e9a0b5264f9
#
@phobos182
phobos182 / haproxy.conf
Created July 17, 2012 23:19
LogStash Configuration for HAProxy
input {
syslog {
type => "haproxy-access"
port => 514
}
}
filter {
grok {
type => "haproxy-access"
@joshavant
joshavant / gist:1637633
Created January 19, 2012 03:41
My Open Source License: MIT Expat + Beerware
Copyright (c) <year> Josh Avant
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
@nifl
nifl / grok_vi.mdown
Created August 29, 2011 17:23
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.

Answer by Jim Dennis on Stack Overflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.

You mention cutting with yy and complain that you almost never want to cut whole lines. In fact programmers, editing source code, very often want to work on whole lines, ranges of lines and blocks of code. However, yy is only one of many way to yank text into the anonymous copy buffer (or "register" as it's called in vi).

The "Zen" of vi is that you're speaking a language. The initial y is a verb. The statement yy is a simple statement which is, essentially, an abbreviation for 0 y$:

0 go to the beginning of this line. y yank from here (up to where?)

@jed
jed / LICENSE.txt
Created May 20, 2011 13:27 — forked from 140bytes/LICENSE.txt
generate random UUIDs
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE