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:

anthonywu

function pdf_join {
  join_py="/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py"
  read -p "Name of output file > " output_file && "$join_py" -o $output_file $@ && open $output_file
}

branneman

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

mikaelbr

// === Arrays

var [a, b] = [1, 2];
console.log(a, b);
//=> 1 2


// Use from functions, only select from pattern
var foo = () => [1, 2, 3];

Couto

var webpack = require('webpack');
var HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
var path = require('path');
var folders = {
    APP: path.resolve(__dirname, '../app'),
    BUILD: path.resolve(__dirname, '../build'),
    BOWER: path.resolve(__dirname, '../bower_components'),
    NPM: path.resolve(__dirname, '../node_modules')
};

cfenollosa

#!/usr/bin/env php
<?php
// Script to postpone your own email. Parses IMAP folders and moves emails to a folder named "Today"
// Run this from a crontab, for example at 6 AM

// BSD License
// (C) Carlos Fenollosa, 2011-2016
// Read more about this script: http://cfenollosa.com/blog/a-simple-script-to-postpone-your-own-email.html
// Please leave comments and feedback for bugs and ideas!

DracoBlue

Simple nodejs script to convert timeline from twitter (https://dev.twitter.com) to twtxt (https://github.com/buckket/twtxt) format.

$ npm install twitter moment
$ convert.js > ~/twtxt.txt

brandondurham

/**
 * Using Operator Mono in Atom
 * 
 * 1. Open up Atom Preferences.
 * 2. Click the “Open Config Folder” button.
 * 3. In the new window’s tree view on the left you should see a file called “styles.less”. Open that up.
 * 4. Copy and paste the CSS below into that file. As long as you have Operator Mono SSm installed you should be golden!
 * 5. Tweak away.
 *
 * Theme from the screenshot (http://cdn.typography.com/assets/images/blog/operator_ide2.png):

ejcx

 this.ycQuestions = [
    "So what are you working on?",
    "Have you raised funding?",
    "What makes new users try you?",
    "What competition do you fear most?",
    "What’s the worst thing that has happened?",
    "Will you reincorporate as a US company?",
    "What’s an impressive thing you have done?",
    "Where is the rocket science here?",
    "Why did you pick this idea to work on?",

ericelliott

// A Unit test template for Tape
// See 5 Questions every unit test must answer:
// https://medium.com/javascript-scene/what-every-unit-test-needs-f6cd34d9836d

import test from 'tape';

test('What are you testing?', assert => {
  const msg = 'what should it do?'

  const actual = 'what was the output?';