gnarmis

#!/bin/bash
#
# Blame @gnarmis if this doesn't work
#
# Put this anywhere on your $PATH (~/bin is recommended). Then git will see it
# and you'll be able to do `git recent-branches`.
#
# Show top 5 most recent branches:
#   $ git recent-branches | head -n 5
#

practicingruby

There's no general rule you can follow here, because it's always going to depend on context. In my experience the kind of feedback loops you create, and the kind of safety nets you need are defined entirely by the domain, the organization, and the team culture.

Here are a few examples:

1. I do a bit of work for a medium-sized dental clinic. The business manager there is really fun to work with, but has the tendency of changing his mind six times before he settles his ideas. So when he asks for a report, I don't put any effort at all into writing tests or worrying about minor bugs even, because my only goal is to flesh out in code something vaguely resembling what he asked for.

Often times, this means doing a handful of 30 minute prototypes until the requirements settle, each of which would have taken me 2 hours if I drove them via TDD. When things finally cool down, I evaluate the complexity and maintainability of the resulting code and either leave it untested, add some acceptance tests, backfill unit tes

pasela

# encoding: utf-8

require "timeout"

# Capture the standard output and the standard error of a command.
# Almost same as Open3.capture3 method except for timeout handling and return value.
# See Open3.capture3.
#
#   result = capture3_with_timeout([env,] cmd... [, opts])
#

xaviershay

2013 Reading List

I read sixty-six books this year, one more than last. You can find the full list over at Good Reads, but here are my top picks.

Philosophy

A Manual For Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian

The best book on teaching critical thinking I have read. Includes "intervention dialogues" transcripts, plenty of research, genuine compassion and empathy for other people, plus a wealth of experience in the author, who has been teaching philosophy and talking about faith for decades.

marick

Nature's first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold. 
Her early leaf's a flower; 
But only so an hour. 

Then leaf subsides to leaf. 
So Eden sank to grief, 
So dawn goes down to day. 
Timezones: they're here to stay.

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

paneq

  if (-f $document_root/system/maintenance.html) {
    return 503;
  }

  error_page 503 @maintenance;
  location @maintenance {
    internal;
    if ($http_accept ~ json) {
      return 503 "{}";
    }

clifton

$(document).ready(function() {

  // automatically fix obfuscated email addresses pasted into
  // to/cc/bcc fields                                                                                                                                                              

  $("textarea[name=to], textarea[name=cc], textarea[name=bcc]")
  .live('blur', function(e){
    var text = $(this).val();
    var separators = ['_', ' ', '\\[', '\\]', '\\(', '\\)'];
    var separatorExp = '(' + separators.join('|') + ')+';

eric

>> engine = ArelBack::Engine.new(ar.connection, Arel::Visitors::MySQL)
>> table = Arel::Table.new(ar.table_name, engine)
>> table.project(Arel.sql('*')).to_sql
=> "SELECT * FROM `awesome_table` "
>>

jupp0r

require 'formula'

class Emacs < Formula
  homepage 'http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/'
  url 'http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-23.4.tar.bz2'
  mirror 'http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.4.tar.bz2'
  md5 '070c68ad8e3c31fb3cb2414feaf5e6f0'

  fails_with_llvm "Duplicate symbol errors while linking.", :build => 2334