Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

View justinmacleod's full-sized avatar

Justin MacLeod justinmacleod

View GitHub Profile
@PurpleBooth
PurpleBooth / README-Template.md
Last active December 3, 2025 00:19
A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

@DanHerbert
DanHerbert / fix-homebrew-npm.md
Last active November 30, 2025 00:47
Instructions on how to fix npm if you've installed Node through Homebrew on Mac OS X or Linuxbrew

OBSOLETE

This entire guide is based on an old version of Homebrew/Node and no longer applies. It was only ever intended to fix a specific error message which has since been fixed. I've kept it here for historical purposes, but it should no longer be used. Homebrew maintainers have fixed things and the options mentioned don't exist and won't work.

I still believe it is better to manually install npm separately since having a generic package manager maintain another package manager is a bad idea, but the instructions below don't explain how to do that.

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

Installing node through Homebrew can cause problems with npm for globally installed packages. To fix it quickly, use the solution below. An explanation is also included at the end of this document.

@tremby
tremby / gist:6644465
Last active December 23, 2015 13:49
Jquery plugins to provide recursive bounds, height and width calculators for elements
# Get the bounds of elements including all children relative to the document
# - The visibility property is totally ignored whether visible or hidden
# - Elements with display: none are skipped
# - Horizontal bounds of children are ignored when overflow-x is hidden
# - Vertical bounds of children are ignored when overflow-y is hidden
$.fn.getBounds = ->
bounds =
left: Infinity
right: -Infinity
top: Infinity
@rodw
rodw / backup-github.sh
Last active November 20, 2025 10:43
A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories, wikis and issues.
#!/bin/bash
# A simple script to backup an organization's GitHub repositories.
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTES:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * User @jimklimov (and probably some others called out in the long comment
# thread below) have modified this script to make it more robust and keep
# up with various changes in the GitHub API and response format at:
# https://github.com/jimklimov/github-scripts
@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active August 25, 2025 12:52 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@markrickert
markrickert / giratchive.sh
Created June 12, 2012 20:20
Git Archive Bash Script
#!/bin/bash
# Takes one parameter: a remote git repository URL.
#
# This is the stuff this script does:
#
# 1. Clones the repository
# 2. Fetches all remote branches
# 3. Compresses the folder
# 4. Deletes the cloned folder.