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imjasonh / markdown.css
Last active September 3, 2025 22:12
Render Markdown as unrendered Markdown (see http://jsbin.com/huwosomawo)
* {
font-size: 12pt;
font-family: monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
text-decoration: none;
color: black;
cursor: default;
}
@wesbos
wesbos / tab-trigger.js
Created November 16, 2015 19:33
How to properly get a TAB trigger working with Emmet inside of JSX
{
"keys": ["tab"],
"command": "expand_abbreviation_by_tab",
// put comma-separated syntax selectors for which
// you want to expandEmmet abbreviations into "operand" key
// instead of SCOPE_SELECTOR.
// Examples: source.js, text.html - source
"context": [
{
@developit
developit / async-examples.js
Last active February 19, 2020 00:43
Async Array utilities in async/await. Now available as an npm package: https://github.com/developit/asyncro
/** Async version of Array.prototype.reduce()
* await reduce(['/foo', '/bar', '/baz'], async (acc, v) => {
* acc[v] = await (await fetch(v)).json();
* return acc;
* }, {});
*/
export async function reduce(arr, fn, val, pure) {
for (let i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
let v = await fn(val, arr[i], i, arr);
if (pure!==false) val = v;

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

What's an Effective Engineer?

Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

@pteich
pteich / main.go
Last active May 30, 2024 02:57
Example for using go's sync.errgroup together with signal detection signal.NotifyContext to stop all running goroutines
package main
import (
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"os/signal"
"syscall"
"time"