Well, I found a way to do it faster and nicer simply by piping to the clipboard, thanks to xclip.

To use it, just install it and configure an alias in your .bashrc file, as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install xclip
$ alias clipboard='xclip -selection clipboard'


Then, when you need to do something like configuring your SSH key in GitHub, you just:

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | clipboard


Thanks to Brian Racer for this snippet!

Here’s the 2-line solution to increase your happiness even more:

cd ~/.vim
svn export --force http://lampsvn.epfl.ch/svn-repos/scala/scala-tool-support/trunk/src/vim .

And there you go, nice indent and syntax highlighting support for Scala.

Massive thanks to Nico “@nfmelendez” Meléndez for pointing this excellent package!

Nowadays we have several popular identities we use in business cards, e-mail signatures, presentation slides, etc. Depending on what I do like the most, and probably depending on the context as well, I may say I’m @luisfarzati. Or lfarzati@gmail.com. Or facebook.com/luisfarzati. Or just find me by luisfarzati: it’s the screen name I use everywhere: LinkedIn, Flickr, GitHub, and so on.

Most of these services have an open API with a public, limited access that allows anyone to know if there’s a person registered under a certain username.

Why don’t we leverage these APIs and let the user input whatever they want to login? If it exists as a valid username out there, we’ll find it and suggest it.

Feel free to try with many combinations. @twittername, facebook.com/name, name@gmail.com, youtube.com/name, WordPress blog URL, Open ID URL, etc.

You can try the concept demo or get the source files on GitHub.

Of course, over time I have been optimizing the editor with the addition of several plugins and customization of its settings.

Here is my current vim setup focused on HTML, JS, CSS and PHP programming:

1. Install NERDTree
   This gives you a nice tree view of the filesystem.
2. Install IndentAnything
   Name says it all.
3. Install JavaScript indentation
   A nice JS indentation for IndentAnything
4. Install JSLint
   Validates the code for compilation errors as well as styling and informs you of this, almost in real-time!

You might want to throw in some visual enhancements as well. The railscasts color scheme along with the Monaco font are a pretty good combination.

Finally, my .vimrc file:

"Keyboard mappings
map :NERDTreeToggle

"FileType support
set filetype=on
filetype plugin on
filetype indent on

"Enable incremental search
autocmd FileType javascript,html,css,php set incsearch

And that’s it. Please feel free to post your suggestions!

Why execute 3 commands to download a tar.gz file, extract its contents and delete the archive, when actually there’s no need to store the archive physically (you only care about its contents) and you could save one command in the process?

So that’s why I love
wget -O- <url> | tar zxv
I tried the same for zip files but it doesn’t work. According to man unzip:

Archives read from standard input are not yet supported, except with funzip (and then only the first member of the archive can be extracted).

If anyone knows a workaround, it will be very appreciated!

Open the lid of your Facebook laptop (which is a netbook, but with Facebook OS), or turn on your Facebook phone, or put channel Facebook in your Smart TV. Do everything (in Facebook, of course). Done.

Really. Name one thing you can’t get on Facebook: E-mail. Oh, wait.

Chris Messina wrote an excellent post about the death of the URL. I think I would go a step further and think about the death of the Web. No bookmarks. No searching. Everybody wants whatever is relevant now: if your website doesn’t show up among the conversations, it probably doesn’t worth a visit. Period.

Sitting in front of your computer and opening Facebook is the new sitting in front of your TV and zapping through the channels.

Where Open ID failed, Facebook Connect succeeded. Where AOL failed, Facebook succeeded.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Facebook launching a browser next year.

Update: according to comScore, Facebook took the lead in time spent:

I had it fixed by adding the following option to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in the /etc/default/grub file:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_sleep=nonvs"
Then I had to update grub by executing
sudo update-grub
And finally, had to restart Ubuntu in order to get the new boot configuration.