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@lelandbatey
lelandbatey / whiteboardCleaner.md
Last active April 10, 2025 09:21
Whiteboard Picture Cleaner - Shell one-liner/script to clean up and beautify photos of whiteboards!

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

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@branneman
branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active April 11, 2025 10:39
Better local require() paths for Node.js

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

@philfreo
philfreo / gist:7257723
Created October 31, 2013 21:44
Facebook Perl source code from 2005. When browsing around thefacebook.com in 2005 the server spit out some server-side source code rather than running it. I believe this was for their old graph feature that let you visualize the graph between all your friends. The filename is `mygraph.svgz` and contains some gems such as a commented out "zuck" d…
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mysql;
use strict;
use vars qw($school_name);
use vars qw($pass);
require "./cgi-lib.pl";
@radu-gheorghe
radu-gheorghe / multiple_child_levels.bash
Created April 23, 2013 09:04
multiple parent-child level query with Elasticsearch
curl -XDELETE localhost:9200/test/
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test/
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test/son/_mapping -d '{
"son": {
"_parent": {
"type": "mother"
}
}
}'
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test/daughter/_mapping -d '{
@nikcub
nikcub / README.md
Created October 4, 2012 13:06
Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
@jcsrb
jcsrb / gist:1081548
Created July 13, 2011 23:05
get avatar from google profiles, facebook, gravatar, twitter, tumblr
function get_avatar_from_service(service, userid, size) {
// this return the url that redirects to the according user image/avatar/profile picture
// implemented services: google profiles, facebook, gravatar, twitter, tumblr, default fallback
// for google use get_avatar_from_service('google', profile-name or user-id , size-in-px )
// for facebook use get_avatar_from_service('facebook', vanity url or user-id , size-in-px or size-as-word )
// for gravatar use get_avatar_from_service('gravatar', md5 hash email@adress, size-in-px )
// for twitter use get_avatar_from_service('twitter', username, size-in-px or size-as-word )
// for tumblr use get_avatar_from_service('tumblr', blog-url, size-in-px )
// everything else will go to the fallback
// google and gravatar scale the avatar to any site, others will guided to the next best version