Edward Bramanti ebramanti

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

Effective Engineer - Notes

By Edmond Lau
Highly Recommended 👍
http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

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Edit — February 2019

This gist had a far larger impact than I imagined it would, and apparently people are still finding it, so a quick update:

TC39 is currently moving forward with a slightly different version of TLA, referred to as 'variant B', in which a module with TLA doesn't block sibling execution. This vastly reduces the danger of parallelizable work happening in serial and thereby delaying startup, which was the concern that motivated me to write this gist
In the wild, we're seeing (async main(){...}()) as a substitute for TLA. This completely eliminates the blocking problem (yay!) but it's less powerful, and harder to statically analyse (boo). In other words the lack of TLA is causing real problems
Therefore, a version of TLA that solves the original issue is a valuable addition to the language, and I'm in full support of the current proposal, which you can read here.

I'll leave the rest of this document unedited, for archaeological

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');

	class ApplicationJob < ActiveJob::Base
	around_perform do \|job, block\|
	Honeycomb.start_span(name: job.class.name) do \|span\|
	span.add_field 'type', 'worker'
	span.add_field 'queue.name', job.queue_name
	block.call
	end
	end
	end

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="pt-BR">
	<head>
	<meta chatset="UTF-8" />
	<title>CSS Progress Bar</title>

	<style>
	.wrapper {
	width: 500px;
	}

	/**
	* Example to refresh tokens using https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken
	* It was requested to be introduced at as part of the jsonwebtoken library,
	* since we feel it does not add too much value but it will add code to mantain
	* we won't include it.
	*
	* I create this gist just to help those who want to auto-refresh JWTs.
	*/

	const jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');

	#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

	[Desktop Entry]
	Encoding=UTF-8
	Name=YakYak
	Comment=Desktop client for Google Hangouts
	GenericName=Hangouts Client
	Exec=/opt/yakyak-linux-x64/yakyak
	Icon=/opt/yakyak-linux-x64/resources/app/icons/[email protected]
	Terminal=false

	// Correct Way
	function indexOf(str, query) {
	for(var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
	for(var q = 0; q < query.length; q++) {
	if (str[i+q] !== query[q]) {
	break;
	}
	if (q === query.length - 1) {
	return i;
	}

	# drone.yml for node js CI with npm login
	# Don't forget to configure DRONE_SERVER and DRONE_SERVER
	# Now create a secrets.yml (OUTSIDE of your repo!!) (see other file)
	# then run drone secure --repo <drone_repo_name> --in <path>/secrets.yml
	build:
	unit_tests:
	image: risingstack/alpine:3.3-v4.2.6-1.1.3
	commands:
	- npm config set //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=$NPM_TOKEN
	- npm install