Steve Chan xlisp

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

The hottest repositories created in the last week.
The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
Issue trends by language.
Clojure projects defying convention.

Setting Up Clojure on OS X

I spent a lot of time trying to find a pretty optimal (for me) setup for Clojure… at the same time I was trying to dive in and learn it. This is never optimal; you shouldn't be fighting the environment while trying to learn something.

I feel like I went through a lot of pain searching Google, StackOverflow, blogs, and other sites for random tidbits of information and instructions.

This is a comprehensive "what I learned and what I ended up doing" that will hopefully be of use to others and act as a journal for myself if I ever have to do it again. I want to be very step-by-step and explain what's happening (and why) at each step.

	apt-get update
	apt-get upgrade -y
	apt-get install -y make gcc git-core htop libreadline-dev bison tar libssl-dev zlib1g-dev bzip2 libpcre3-dev
	git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
	cd ~/.rbenv && src/configure && make -C src
	echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
	~/.rbenv/bin/rbenv init
	echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >>~/.bashrc
	git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
	export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"

	# install openjdk
	sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

	# download android sdk
	wget http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.2-linux.tgz

	tar -xvf android-sdk_r24.2-linux.tgz
	cd android-sdk-linux/tools

	# install all sdk packages

	class Operation < Struct.new(:name, :args, :block)
	class << self
	attr_accessor :opposite_operations
	end

	def self.define_opposite_operations(name, name_of_opposite)
	@opposite_operations \|\|= {}
	@opposite_operations[name] = name_of_opposite
	@opposite_operations[name_of_opposite] = name
	end

	# http://forrst.com/posts/JSON_vs_Marshal_vs_eval_Which_is_the_fastest_fo-6Qy

	require 'benchmark'
	require 'json'
	require 'redis'

	# -----------------

	puts "Initialize variables.."

Steve Chan xlisp

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Setting Up Clojure on OS X

Step 1: Getting Clojure (1.3)