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May 10, 2018

Commit only part of a file in Git

"When I make changes to a file in Git, how can I commit only some of the changes? For example, how could I commit only 15 lines out of 30 lines that have been changed in a file?"

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May 10, 2018

darrenjacoby/itcss-starter

"Sass starter for saner, longer lasting stylesheets. The architecture is based on ITCSS, which recommends a low specificity architecture that trends upwards."

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"The portion of images and video in the typical payload of a website can be significant. Unfortunately, project stakeholders may be unwilling to cut any media resources from their existing applications."

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May 9, 2018

A command to list all users? And how to add, delete, modify users?

"Stack Exchange network consists of 173 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. I need a command to list all users in terminal. And how to add, delete, modify users from terminal."

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May 8, 2018

A Crash-course in PHP Namespaces for WordPress Developers

"Way back in 2009, PHP 5.3 was released to the world and with it brought support for PHP namespaces — a way of easily separating your code from other developers’ code, which has since become the de facto way of encapsulating functionality across the PHP ecosystem."

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May 8, 2018

Every 405,000 years, gravitational tugs from Jupiter and Venus slightly elongate Earth's orbit, a consistent pattern that has influenced our planet's climate for at least 215 million years and allows scientists to more precisely date geological events like the spread of dinosaurs. • r/space

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May 8, 2018

A Sage 9 + ACF debugging technique

"Thought I would share a debugging technique that’s working out well for me at the moment. I’ve never had any successes getting Xdebug and VS Code to play nicely but this technique also covers Advanced Custom Fields too."

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May 8, 2018

What is the cleanest way to ssh and run multiple commands in Bash?

"Now, what I'd really like to do is run a lot of long commands on an external server. Enclosing all of these in between quotation marks would be quite ugly, and I'd really rather avoid ssh'ing multiple times just to avoid this."

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May 8, 2018

rsync delete files on sending side after transfer

"I want to download a large amount of data from a remote machine. I'd like the data to be erased on the remote machine everytime a file finishes downloading. How do I do that? Is there a flag for rsync to do this?"

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May 8, 2018

Binding and unbinding of event handlers

"How to attach or detach a handler function to an event, such as click, focus, or submit. Modern browsers support addEventListener() and removeEventListener() for adding or removing event handlers; IE 8 has its own methods."

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May 8, 2018

r/dataisbeautiful

"68OCThe City is Alive: The Population of Manhattan, Hour-by-Hour [OC]"

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May 8, 2018

removeEventListener and this

"Have you ever tried to call removeEventListener on a previously attached element and couldn't remove it? Did you maybe try to pass a function to addEventListener that is bound to another context? The context of the callback that we are passing to addEventListener is the same as the event." read »

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April 25, 2018

Understanding Easing (Explaining Penner’s equations) – JavaScript and ActionScript

"Despite the commonality of the classic easing equations, largely attributed to Penner, there doesn’t seem to be the in-depth examination of “how it works” that a lot of code is subject to nowadays. First, a quick clarification on the most popular easing Classes."

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April 18, 2018

A complete React with GraphQL Tutorial

"I am writing a React GraphQL book which I want to release in the next months. If you are interested on following me on this journey or grabbing a copy of the book as one of its first readers, head over here to receive updates about it." read full text »

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April 15, 2018

Forms at scale: 2 years of redux-form

"After two years developing React applications at ProductReview.com.au, I think it’s time for me to share our experiences and the tools we adopted to make us more productive when dealing with forms."

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April 13, 2018

Three years of staring lets scientists capture a neutron star “glitch”

"Neutron stars are the most dense form of matter in our Universe (black holes cram more stuff into a smaller space, and it's not clear if that stuff is still "matter")." read full text »

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April 10, 2018

Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space

"The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending time and space in that region. The galaxy cluster, called SDSS J0146-0929, features hundreds of individual galaxies all bound together by gravity."

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T-Mobile Customer Service Fiasco

April 7, 2018

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April 4, 2018

React Router: Declarative Routing for React

"Components are the heart of React's powerful, declarative programming model. React Router is a collection of navigational components that compose declaratively with your application. Whether you want to have bookmarkable URLs..." read full text »

Some Monday morning irony

March 26, 2018

In 1994 the Ku Klux Klan applied to sponsor a portion of United States Interstate 55 in St. Louis County and Jefferson County, Missouri, near St. Louis, for cleanup (which allowed them to have signs stating that this section of highway was maintained by the organization). Since the state could not refuse the KKK’s sponsorship, … Continued