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body {
    margin: 20px;
    font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
input {
    border: 1px solid #888;
    font-size: 1.2rem;
    padding: 0.5rem;
}

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var crypto = require("crypto");
/**
 * Get the signature/digest of a supplied input string
 * @param data [Required] The String to encode
 * @param awsSecretKey [Required] Secret key shared with Amazon
 * @param algorithm [Optional] Encryption algorithm, defaults to sha256
 * @param encoding [Optional] The output encoding. Default to base64
 * @returns Str with encoded digest of the input string
 */
function generateHmac (data, awsSecretKey, algorithm, encoding) {

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var crypto = require('crypto');
var SHARED_SECRET = "sup3rs3cr3t!!";

function signString(string_to_sign, shared_secret) {
	var hmac = crypto.createHmac('sha512', shared_secret);
	hmac.write(string_to_sign);
	hmac.end()
	return hmac.read();
}

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3 Vim tips with external commands

Vim has this ! special character that will run any shell command without having to close it. Here are 3 ways I often use it:

1. Format a JSON blob:

:%!python -m json.tool

2. Count number of characters in a file:

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How to disable HTML links with CSS?

Since IE11 we can just use CSS to prevent elements to fire hover and click event. Here is how to do it:

<a href="page.html" class="off">Link</a>

.off {
pointer-events: none;
cursor: default;

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var http = require("http"),
    url = require("url"),
    path = require("path"),
    fs = require("fs")
    port = process.argv[2] || 8080;

http.createServer(function(request, response) {

  var uri = url.parse(request.url).pathname
    , filename = path.join(process.cwd(), uri);

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#!/bin/sh

# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

# Set the colours you can use
black='\033[0;30m'
white='\033[0;37m'
red='\033[0;31m'

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/**
 * Provides requestAnimationFrame in a cross browser way.
 * @author paulirish / http://paulirish.com/
 */

if ( !window.requestAnimationFrame ) {

	window.requestAnimationFrame = ( function() {

		return window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame ||

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<?php
/**
 * An helper file for Laravel 4, to provide autocomplete information to your IDE
 * Generated with https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper
 *
 * @author Barry vd. Heuvel <barryvdh@gmail.com>
 */
exit('Only to be used as an helper for your IDE');

class App extends Illuminate\Support\Facades\App{

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<?php

/**
 * I had to parse an XLSX spreadsheet (which should damn well have been a CSV!)
 * but the usual tools were hitting the memory limit pretty quick. I found that
 * manually parsing the XML worked pretty well. Note that this, most likely,
 * won't work if cells contain anything more than text or a number (so formulas,
 * graphs, etc ..., I don't know what'd happen).
 */