katef

#!/usr/bin/awk -f

# This program is a copy of guff, a plot device. https://github.com/silentbicycle/guff
# My copy here is written in awk instead of C, has no compelling benefit.
# Public domain. @thingskatedid

# Run as awk -v x=xyz ... or env variables for stuff?
# Assumptions: the data is evenly spaced along the x-axis

# TODO: moving average

sloria

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

jasonrudolph

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

• The hottest repositories created in the last week.
• The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
• Issue trends by language.
• Clojure projects defying convention.

fstorr

How to get speech output as text from screen readers

Sometimes you need text, rather than voice, output from screen readers. Why? It's really useful for bug reports ("this disclosure icon is announced as 'black dash triangle dash filled dash x2 underscore final dot png' and needs alt text"). Luckily, getting this text is easy to do.

VoiceOver on MacOS

In VoiceOver you press Option + Control + Shift + C to have the last item that was announced copied to the clipboard. Bonus feature: pressing Option + Control + Shift + Z to save the last phrase to the desktop as an audio file.

VoiceOver on iOS

A three-finger quadruple tap copies the last announcement to the clipboard.

zmwangx

Markdown, LaTeX, etc.

Caution

• (10/30/2016) I am not sure when and how this gist gained quite a few stars... But as stated in the v1.13 change log (from 06/16/2015): some content may be outdated, and I am not going to fix them. Moreover, having learned much myself, I do not necessarily agree with every point made in this document from 2.5 years ago. Therefore, please take views from this document with a grain of salt, and do further research as you see fit.

• This document was initally written for a friend of mine, Jiawen Li, so it might reflect some personal tastes here and there. For instance, some discussions are geared towards Windows, though *nix is obviously superior. For another example, when I say "you seem to love Sublime Text a lot," I'm certainly not expecting most people to love Sublime (in fact I never used it for more than three minutes in a row).

• This document is written in Markdown. The Markdown rendering engine on GitHub Gist is somewhat limited a

chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

henrik

tmux cheatsheet

As configured in my dotfiles.

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

dupuy

Markdown and reStructuredText

GitHub supports several lightweight markup languages for documentation; the most popular ones (generally, not just at GitHub) are Markdown and reStructuredText. Markdown is sometimes considered easier to use, and is often preferred when the purpose is simply to generate HTML. On the other hand, reStructuredText is more extensible and powerful, with native support (not just embedded HTML) for tables, as well as things like automatic generation of tables of contents.

gwangjinkim

This gist I write, because I couldn't find step by step instructions 
how to install and start postgresql locally (using conda within a conda environment - with the result
that you can run it without sudo/admin rights on your machine!)
and not globally in the operating system (which requires sudo/admin rights on that machine).

I hope, this will help especially people new to postgresql (and those who don't have sudo/admin rights on a specific machine but want
to run postgresql there)!

####################################
# create conda environment

vimtaai

Comparison of syntax extensions in Markdown flavors

I created a crude comparison of the syntax of the various common Markdown extensions to have a better view on what are the most common extensions and what is the most widely accepted syntax for them. The list of Markdown flavors that I looked at was based on the list found on CommonMark's GitHub Wiki.

Flavor	Superscript	Subscript	Deletion* Strikethrough	Insertion*	Highlight*	Footnote	Task list	Table	Abbr	Deflist	Smart typo	TOC	Math	Math Block	Mermaid
GFM