Yefim Vedernikoff yefim

AI Writing Tropes to Avoid

Add this file to your AI assistant's system prompt or context to help it avoid common AI writing patterns. Source: tropes.fyi by ossama.is

Word Choice

"Quietly" and Other Magic Adverbs

Type-Safe React Context

By using ReturnType we don't have to manually write type for Context

See also gist for SolidJS https://gist.github.com/JLarky/a46055f673a2cb021db1a34449e3be07

And original tweet https://twitter.com/JLarky/status/1554152932425117697

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

Video stabilization using VidStab and FFMPEG

Examples here use the default settings, see the VidStab readme on GitHub for more advanced instructions.

Here's an example video I made

Install ffmpeg with the vidstab plugin from homebrew

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvidstab

Auto-deploying built products to gh-pages with GitHub Actions

This is a set up for projects which want to check in only their source files, but have their gh-pages branch automatically updated with some compiled output every time they push.

A file below this one contains the steps for doing this with Travis CI. However, these days I recommend GitHub Actions, for the following reasons:

It is much easier and requires less steps, because you are already authenticated with GitHub, so you don't need to share secret keys across services like you do when coordinate Travis CI and GitHub.
It is free, with no quotas.
Anecdotally, builds are much faster with GitHub Actions than with Travis CI, especially in terms of time spent waiting for a builder.

	name: example action

	on:
	push:
	branches: [ dev ]
	pull_request:
	branches: [ master ]

	jobs:

	<html>
	<body>
	<div class="has-emoji">Hello world! I'm a unicorn: 🦄</div>

	<script>
	// Stolen from Modernizr: https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/blob/v3.5.0/feature-detects/emoji.js
	const hasEmojiSupport = () => {
	var pixelRatio = window.devicePixelRatio \|\| 1;
	var offset = 12 * pixelRatio;
	var node = document.createElement('canvas');

	# decode_session_cookie.rb
	# ------------------------
	# The purpose of this script is to show that if I have the secret_key_base
	# and a cookie to an active Rails session, I can decrypt it and gain access
	# to key information about the user's session.

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'cgi'
	require 'active_support'
	require 'action_controller'

	/*
	* Join the elements in an javascript array,
	* but let the last separator be different eg: `and` / `or`
	* Stackoverflow link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15069587/is-there-a-way-to-join-the-elements-in-an-js-array-but-let-the-last-separator-b
	* Credit: Chris Barr - http://stackoverflow.com/users/79677/chris-barr
	*/
	function formatArray(arr){
	var outStr = "";
	if (arr.length === 1) {
	outStr = arr[0];

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Source: https://gist.github.com/fritz-c/c1e528b09bc1c0827a3c
	# Original: https://gist.github.com/jordan-brough/48e2803c0ffa6dc2e0bd

	# Download this script as "git-recentco" (no extension), chmod it to be executable and put it in your
	# path somewhere (e.g. /usr/bin). You can then use it via `git recentco` from inside any git repo.

	# Example:
	#