Nicky McCurdy nickserv

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');

Hexadecimal color code for transparency

How to set transparency with hex value ?

For example, you want to set 40% alpha transparence to #000000 (black color), you need to add 66 like this #66000000.

All hex value from 100% to 0% alpha:

lodash v4.17.20

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.

	/*
	* Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
	*
	* If you are a JavaScript nerd supreme:
	*/

	/*
	* ...should all output "true"
	*
	* bonus for avoiding for loops

	// See https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/presentations/react-redux-ts-intro-2020-12/#/36 for slides
	// My basic render function structure:
	function RenderLogicExample({
	someBoolean, // 1) Destructure values from `props` object
	someList,
	}) {
	// 2) Declare state values
	const [a, setA] = useState(0);
	const [b, setB] = useState(0);

	35 left-pad
	30 relative-date
	27 expand-home-dir
	25 dom-event
	22 read-json
	21 is-node
	20 play-audio
	17 shuffle-array
	17 concat
	16 style-format

	%token STRING NULL NUMBER TRUE FALSE

	%start JSONText

	%%

	JSONText : JSONValue;

	JSONString : STRING;

	#!/bin/bash

	# Sync Homebrew installations between Macs via Dropbox
	#

	BREW="/usr/local/bin/brew"

	# first get local settings
	echo "Reading local settings ..."
	rm -f /tmp/brew-sync.*