joepie91

ES Modules are terrible, actually

This post was adapted from an earlier Twitter thread.

It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd that is ES Modules (often mistakenly called "ES6 Modules"). Causing a big ecosystem divide and massive tooling support issues, for... well, no reason, really. There are no actual advantages to it. At all.

It looks shiny and new and some libraries use it in their documentation without any explanation, so people assume that it's the new thing that must be used. And then I end up having to explain to them why, unlike CommonJS, it doesn't actually work everywhere yet, and may never do so. For example, you can't import ESM modules from a CommonJS file! (Update: I've released a module that works around this issue.)

And then there's Rollup, which apparently requires ESM to be u

rmi1974

Using libfaketime to manipulate the system time for applications

See [libfaketime on github][1] for upstream project site general overview.

Build in multilib environment

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -Eeuo pipefail

patrick-steele-idem

Syntax: Marko vs Vue

Custom tags and passing data

Marko:

<greeting
  name=fullName
  message-count=30

cmalven

Cooking Ratios

All ratios should be measure by weight using a kitchen scale.

Doughs

• Bread = 5 parts flour : 3 parts water (plus yeast and salt)
• Pasta Dough = 3 parts flour : 2 parts egg
• Pie Dough = 3 parts flour : 2 parts fat : 1 part water
• Biscuit = 3 parts flour : 1 part fat : 2 parts liquid

victorquinn

var Promise = require('bluebird');

var promiseWhile = function(condition, action) {
    var resolver = Promise.defer();

    var loop = function() {
        if (!condition()) return resolver.resolve();
        return Promise.cast(action())
            .then(loop)
            .catch(resolver.reject);

thoward

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

using Lucene.Net.Analysis;
using Lucene.Net.Analysis.Standard;
using Lucene.Net.Documents;
using Lucene.Net.Index;
using Lucene.Net.QueryParsers;