luk-

• npm-registry-client: https://github.com/isaacs/npm-registry-client (handles the cli -> couchdb stuff)
• npmlog: https://github.com/isaacs/npmlog (npm's logger utility)
• read-package-json: https://github.com/isaacs/read-package-json (what npm uses to read your package.json files)
• read-installed: https://github.com/isaacs/read-installed (Reads a folder and returns a dependency tree)
• init-package-json: https://github.com/isaacs/init-package-json (What npm uses to create a package.json when you run npm init)
• npmconf: https://github.com/isaacs/npmconf (What npm uses to manage its configuration, including a list of defaults)
• nopt: https://github.com/isaacs/nopt (what npm uses for option parsing)

panicsteve

Dear soon-to-be-former user,

We've got some fantastic news!  Well, it's great news for us anyway.  You, on 
the other hand, are fucked.

We've just been acquired by:

[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter

simonw

/* Use this to cause a function to fire no more than once every 'ms' milliseconds.
   For example, an expensive mousemove handler:
   
   $('body').mouseover(ratelimit(function(ev) {
      // ...
   }, 250));
*/

function ratelimit(fn, ms) {
    var last = (new Date()).getTime();