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This is no longer a bug. I'm keeping the gist for historical reasons, as it helped to get it fixed. Make sure to read the notes by the end of the post.

How to remove hide the select arrow in Firefox using `-moz-appearance:none;`

TL;DR (or, the fix)

Set -moz-appearance to none. This will "reset" the styling of the element;
Set text-indent to 0.01px. This will "push" the text a tiny bit^[1] to the right;

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Please consider using http://lygia.xyz instead of copy/pasting this functions. It expand suport for voronoi, voronoise, fbm, noise, worley, noise, derivatives and much more, through simple file dependencies. Take a look to https://github.com/patriciogonzalezvivo/lygia/tree/main/generative

Generic 1,2,3 Noise

float rand(float n){return fract(sin(n) * 43758.5453123);}

float noise(float p){
	float fl = floor(p);
  float fc = fract(p);

If you are seeing Mongo soft rlimits warnings in your logs, or a WARNING: soft rlimits too low. Number of files is 256, should be at least 1000 when you login to mongo shell via mongo from the commandline, or any mysterious/unexplained mongo connection errors... follow this how-to exactly and it will resolve the issue for you.

(Source of this how to found at basho/basho_docs#1402)

First file: sudo vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxfiles.plist

...containing:

	echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
	. ~/.bashrc
	mkdir ~/local
	mkdir ~/node-latest-install
	cd ~/node-latest-install
	curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz \| tar xz --strip-components=1
	./configure --prefix=~/local
	make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
	curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh \| sh

	/*
	* Minimal classList shim for IE 9
	* By Devon Govett
	* MIT LICENSE
	*/


	if (!("classList" in document.documentElement) && Object.defineProperty && typeof HTMLElement !== 'undefined') {
	Object.defineProperty(HTMLElement.prototype, 'classList', {
	get: function() {

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	function Foo(who) {
	this.me = who;
	}

	Foo.prototype.identify = function() {
	return "I am " + this.me;
	};

	function Bar(who) {
	Foo.call(this,"Bar:" + who);

	<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="title">
	{{view.title}}
	</script>

	<script type="text/x-handlebars">
	<header class="topbar">{{view App.TitleView}}</header>
	</script>