paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

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

justmoon

'use strict';

module.exports = function CustomError(message, extra) {
  Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
  this.name = this.constructor.name;
  this.message = message;
  this.extra = extra;
};

require('util').inherits(module.exports, Error);

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

piscisaureus

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

rach

CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION fr ( COPY = french );
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION fr ALTER MAPPING
FOR hword, hword_part, word WITH unaccent, french_stem;

CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION en ( COPY = english );
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION en ALTER MAPPING
FOR hword, hword_part, word WITH unaccent, english_stem;

CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION de ( COPY = german );
ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION de ALTER MAPPING

benvium

This requires the latest version of apktool.

apktool d $APK_PATH -o $OUTPUT_FOLDER

# Open the apktool.yml text file
# Alter the versionCode and versionName entries

# now rebuild!
apktool build $OUTPUT_FOLDER 

Gubbi

/**
 *
 *  Web Starter Kit
 *  Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

evanbeard

class Api::RegistrationsController < Api::BaseController
  
  respond_to :json
  def create

    user = User.new(params[:user])
    if user.save
      render :json=> user.as_json(:auth_token=>user.authentication_token, :email=>user.email), :status=>201
      return
    else

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"