Week 278 - Interesting links

Change the visibility of your Gists · GitHub

This is a great improvement - I’ve certainly wanted to be able to convert a gist from private to public in the past. — CR

Boldore likes bouldering (roll with it) - Pivotal Labs

I can imagine this coming in handy (I’ve certainly seen other workarounds in the past to achieve something similar). Set Capybara.asset_host = '<your-development-server>' to have save_and_open_page open the temporary html page with links to your sites assets. — CR

Accept on HTML file upload; Useful attribute on input tag - jeena.net

Although apparently not universally supported, this certainly sounds useful. Setting the accept attribute on a file input element prompts certain browsers to only allow the selection of suitable files. — CR

Mailpin: Publish an email as a web page by Mailp.in

This is very similar to an idea I had a few years back. I even bought permailink.co.uk (geddit!?) to host it but never actually got around to making anything of it. I was interested to see that at least one person still thinks this sort of thing is useful. — CR

East London from the air (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - YouTube

I love this video of East London. Partly because I recognise quite a few of the locations, and partly because of the use of the camera drones. Via Londonist. — CR

London In Motion - A Short Timelapse/Hyperlapse video on Vimeo

Another beautiful video via Londonist. This time a hyperlapse/timelapse video of London. Enjoy! — CR

The DHH Problem

A light-hearted, but heartfelt lightning talk by Tom Stuart at Scottish Ruby Conference 2014 containing an important message for Rubyists everywhere. — JM

RawGit

Allows you to serve up your raw files directly from GitHub with proper Content-Type headers and even via a CDN if you so wish. — JM

Lotus

An open-source modular web framework for Ruby (more objects, fewer DSLs, no monkey patching) mentioned by Tom Stuart. — JM

Jest

This unit-testing framework which sits on top of Jasmine looks like it has some interesting features. I’d also like to find out more about one of its dependencies, jsdom. — JM

Making Your Code Citable

Unfortunately sharing code in academia is the exception not the rule. Hopefully issuing DOIs for GitHub repositories removes one of the main barriers to doing this. — JM

Peer Review as a Service: It’s not about the journal

In this article the Zooniverse gang write about an open online academic journal they started to build on top of the arXiv. It’s a shame that they haven’t finished it, but I applaud them for open-sourcing their work so far. — JM