Sebastian Senf mustardamus

From Meteor's documentation:

In Meteor, your server code runs in a single thread per request, not in the asynchronous callback style typical of Node. We find the linear execution model a better fit for the typical server code in a Meteor application.

This guide serves as a mini-tour of tools, trix and patterns that can be used to run async code in Meteor.

Basic async

Sometimes we need to run async code in Meteor.methods. For this we create a Future to block until the async code has finished. This pattern can be seen all over Meteor's own codebase:

People

`:bowtie:`	😄 `:smile:`	😆 `:laughing:`
😊 `:blush:`	😃 `:smiley:`	☺️ `:relaxed:`
😏 `:smirk:`	😍 `:heart_eyes:`	😘 `:kissing_heart:`
😚 `:kissing_closed_eyes:`	😳 `:flushed:`	😌 `:relieved:`
😆 `:satisfied:`	😁 `:grin:`	😉 `:wink:`
😜 `:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:`	😝 `:stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:`	😀 `:grinning:`
😗 `:kissing:`	😙 `:kissing_smiling_eyes:`	😛 `:stuck_out_tongue:`

Screencapture and animated gifs

I say "animated gif" but in reality I think it's irresponsible to be serving "real" GIF files to people now. You should be serving gfy's, gifv's, webm, mp4s, whatever. They're a fraction of the filesize making it easier for you to deliver high fidelity, full color animation very quickly, especially on bad mobile connections. (But I suppose if you're just doing this for small audiences (like bug reporting), then LICEcap is a good solution).

Capturing (Easy)

Launch quicktime player
do Screen recording

VIM KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

MOVEMENT

h        -   Move left
j        -   Move down
k        -   Move up
l        -   Move right
$        -   Move to end of line
0        -   Move to beginning of line (including whitespace)

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

An Ansible summary

Jon Warbrick, July 2014, V3.2 (for Ansible 1.7)

Configuration file

intro_configuration.html

First one found from of

Install

Run a nix container with podman, with the container destination mounted as /mnt:

DEST=~/containers/nixos
mkdir -p $DEST/{dev,proc,etc/nixos}

podman run -v $DEST:/mnt -it --rm --cap-add SYS_ADMIN docker.io/nixos/nix:latest

	http {
	proxy_cache_path /var/cache/nginx levels=1:2 keys_zone=one:8m max_size=3000m inactive=600m;
	proxy_temp_path /var/tmp;
	include mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;
	sendfile on;
	keepalive_timeout 65;

	gzip on;
	gzip_comp_level 6;

	#dropbox {
	position: relative;
	}

	#dropbox > input {
	position: absolute;
	top: 0px;
	right: 0px;
	bottom: 0px;
	left: 0px;

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/
	sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
	curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg \| sudo apt-key add -
	sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu xenial stable"
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install docker-ce

	# https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/