chrismdp

# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash

S3KEY="my aws key"
S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in

function putS3
{
  path=$1

cmod

/*  

  Minimal Facebook Messenger 
  ==========================
  
  1. Make a Fluid (http://fluidapp.com/) instance of https://facebook.com/messages/
  1. a. (You need to buy the paid version of Fluid to modify UserStyles)
  2. Apply the below CSS as a Userstyles stylesheet
  3. Like magic, you can now message without all the cruft of Full Facebook
  

kyledrake

# The blog post that started it all: https://neocities.org/blog/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited
#
# Current known FCC address ranges:
# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716915
#
# Confirm/locate FCC IP ranges with this: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-165-135-0-0-1/pft
#
# In your nginx.conf:

location / {

ghiculescu

server {
  listen 80; # listen on http (port 80)
  server_name blog.example.com; # the domain name people will access your site at
  root /home/deployer/docs; # path to deploy to, eg: "/home/#{user}/docs". this should match whatever was in your Capistrano deploy file.
  expires 1d; # how long should static files be cached for, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_headers_module.html for options.
}

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:

erikh

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

naaman

for app in $(heroku apps); do heroku apps:destroy --app $app --confirm $app; done

avar

# To check if this is up-to-date with the tax rates go to
# http://www.expatax.nl/tax-rates-2016.php and see if there's anything
# newer there.
#
# I make no guarantees that any of this is correct. I calculated this
# at the time and have been updating it when new tax rates come along
# because people keep finding this useful.
#
# There's also an interactive JS version of this created by
# @stevermeister at