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Last active July 17, 2025 02:22
Advanced SCSS, or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do

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Advanced SCSS

Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.

I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.

This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso

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4poc / LimitStream.js
Created December 10, 2011 03:41
Node.js: LimitStream (Bandwidth limited Readable+Writable Stream)
var fs = require('fs'),
util = require('util'),
Stream = require('stream').Stream;
/**
* Create a bandwidth limited stream
*
* This is a read+writeable stream that can limit how fast it
* is written onto by emitting pause and resume events to
* maintain a specified bandwidth limit, that limit can