Have you ever needed to get any user’s GitHub avatar just based on their username? If you have then you are in luck because the process is quite simple. All you need to do is place the username in the following URL: https://github.com/<REPLACE_WITH_USERNAME>.png Simple Example For instance my username is Read more…
Have you ever wanted to get the contents of a GitHub file via JavaScript? If so I wrote the following function which gives you the ability to get the contents of a file or of a directory: Here is an example of using the above function: And here is another Read more…
If you would like to convert the amount of bytes (or bits) into the corresponding measure when the size is a kilobyte or bigger (or a kilobit or bigger) you can use the following JavaScript function: Here are some examples of using it: If you would like to know how Read more…
Have you ever wanted to make a simple search engine? There are plenty of ways to do it. One way that I have been using in my simple search engine for a while is leveraging Google Sheets. Creating Your Own Google Sheets Search Engine Here are a few simple steps Read more…
If your codebase is in PHP and you would like user’s to be able to login to your site using GitHub (single sign-on) you can use the following as a good starting point: Next you will need to setup an OAuth application within GitHub by doing the following: Login to Read more…
Lately I have dedicated a little more time to developing an electron app which saves a frame of every video it encounters as PNG images: Believe it or not the code to turn a frame of a video into an image element is not terribly complicated. Below is a simple Read more…
A few days ago I was working on manipulating data that I found in Wikipedia. The data was in a table where the colspans and rowspans were making it difficult to simply programmatically pull data. Then I started looking into code to turn HTML table to JSON but for some Read more…
Recently I was working on something that required inserting key-value pairs into an array after a specific key in PHP. As I was looking through stackoverflow answers I realized that there was no awesome answer that really jumped out at me. Therefore I decided to take a few minutes to Read more…
The other day I kind of just wanted a reason to write a Gist and embed it on my site using this method. What I came up with was a quick way to make all functions appear to be native: https://gist.github.com/9240810 Here is an example of what happens: I have Read more…
Just as at many other companies, at Monetate we use Github as our source control system. Recently I decided to dedicate some time to create some helpful aliases to save some time. Assuming that you create new branches all based off of your “master” branch these aliases may be helpful Read more…