Github Gists

Gist — http://gist.github.com/ is a small code hosting service provided by github. It is a convenient place to store:

• one-off scripts
• snippets of code that is reusable.
• Short HOW-TO notes that can save you time the next time around
• Funny, memorable, poignant texts that you got as a forward etc.,

See my Gist Index and this is a better index (gist.aviperl.me), to see rendered files.

By others — vsouza/awesome-gists: A collection of amazing gists

Sublime text

I use sublimetext’s gist package to paste, edit and manage the gists directly from inside the sublime text editor. This is a very nifty thing I found out in Dec 2018.

Databases

• Exporting to CSV from MySQL.
• Given a CSV file with a header row, and at-least one row of data, output a SQL CREATE TABLE statement by guessing the data type of the columns.

Shell

• Get date to set date. useful when you want to “copy” time from one system to another.
• Simple module for getting amount of memory used by a specified user’s processes on a UNIX system.
• Correct way to rsync a local dir to remote server.
• Kickstart a new Jekyll post from the command line.

Python

• Programming in Python using Unicode Kannada. A simple hello world.
• Search using PyTyrant (tokyo tyrant).
• Extract title and metadata from a reStructuredText documentI fixed up the original program to make it work with Python3.6

C

• GMT Time

Web

• Minimal HTML5 template.
• Using favicons in HTML header (a fork).

Gist related projects

• GLSL.io — Open Collection of GLSL Transitions
• Gistbox
• Opengist “Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.”

Others gists

• John Daily’s gists have a good collection of links to papers related to distributed computing, erlang etc.. Erlang resources
• Principles of Adult Behavior by John Perry Barlow, ca 2013
• Twitter mute words