splaisan

#!/bin/bash

# script: appify.sh
# minor edits from https://gist.github.com/advorak/1403124

# usage and cli args
usage="Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.\n\
Usage: `basename "$0"` -s <shell-script.sh> -n <app-name>\n\
[optional: -i <icon.icn> -h <help>]\n\
\n\

yurydelendik

function getHightlightCoords() {
var pageIndex = PDFViewerApplication.pdfViewer.currentPageNumber - 1; 
var page = PDFViewerApplication.pdfViewer.getPageView(pageIndex);
var pageRect = page.canvas.getClientRects()[0];
var selectionRects = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).getClientRects();
var viewport = page.viewport;
var selected = selectionRects.map(function (r) {
  return viewport.convertToPdfPoint(r.left - pageRect.x, r.top - pageRect.y).concat(
     viewport.convertToPdfPoint(r.right - pageRect.x, r.bottom - pageRect.y)); 
});

basham

CSS units

Recommendations of unit types per media type:

Media	Recommended	Occasional use	Infrequent use	Not recommended
Screen	em, rem, %	px	ch, ex, vw, vh, vmin, vmax	cm, mm, in, pt, pc
Print	em, rem, %	cm, mm, in, pt, pc	ch, ex	px, vw, vh, vmin, vmax

Relative units

Relative units

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

nikic

Order of evaluation in PHP

Yesterday I found some people on my [favorite reddit][lolphp] wonder about the output of the following code:

<?php

$a = 1;
$c = $a + $a++;

dypsilon

Frontend Development

Attention: the list was moved to

https://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks

This page is not maintained anymore, please update your bookmarks.

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lucaspiller

#!/bin/zsh
# computer activity data collection for http://jehiah.cz/one-two/
# Originally by Jehiah Czebotar. This verison by Luca Spiller.

FILE="$HOME/Dropbox/activity_log/`hostname`-`date +%Y%m%d`.log"

function log_activity()
{
    local TIME=`date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z"`
    local IDLE=$((`/usr/sbin/ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | sed -e '/HIDIdleTime/!{ d' -e 't' -e '}' -e 's/.* = //g' -e 'q'` / 1000000000 ))

jehiah

#!/bin/sh
# computer activity data collection for http://jehiah.cz/one-two/
# by Jehiah Czebotar

FILE="activity_log/`date +%Y%m%d`.log"

function log_activity()
{
    local UTC=`date "+%s,%Z"`
    local IDLE=$((`/usr/sbin/ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | sed -e '/HIDIdleTime/!{ d' -e 't' -e '}' -e 's/.* = //g' -e 'q'` / 1000000000 ))

jehiah

#!/bin/sh
# This script takes a photo if the computer has not been idle for longer than a period of time
# it uses isightcapture from https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/18598/isightcapture

[ -z "$USER" ] && echo "missing variable \$USER " && exit 1
if [ ! -d /Users/$USER/daily_photo ]; then
    mkdir -p $/Users/$USER/daily_photo
fi
IDLE=$((`/usr/sbin/ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | sed -e '/HIDIdleTime/!{ d' -e 't' -e '}' -e 's/.* = //g' -e 'q'` / 1000000000 ))
export SUDO_ASKPASS=/Users/$USER/bin/get_pass.sh

leolimajr

Enable TRIM on non-Apple SSDs in OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion.

WARNING: This is ONLY tested on 10.8.2 (IOAHCIBlockStorage version 2.3.1), and NOT earlier or later versions. 

Check /System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOAHCIBlockStorage.kext/Contents/version.plist 

Technical note: The driver changed in 10.8.2 and similar perl commands that worked in earlier OS X versions did not work for me once I updated to 10.8.2.

Run the following commands in Terminal…