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@bishboria
bishboria / springer-free-maths-books.md
Last active April 25, 2024 06:27
Springer made a bunch of books available for free, these were the direct links
@domenic
domenic / promises.md
Last active March 31, 2024 14:07
You're Missing the Point of Promises

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.
@nikcub
nikcub / README.md
Created October 4, 2012 13:06
Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
@arbales
arbales / handlebars-formatTextForHTML.coffee
Created January 22, 2012 00:08
Replace URLs with links and unicode emoji with images.
LINK_DETECTION_REGEX = /(([a-z]+:\/\/)?(([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+([a-z]{2}|aero|arpa|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|museum|name|nato|net|org|pro|travel|local|internal))(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/[a-z0-9_\-\.~]+)*(\/([a-z0-9_\-\.]*)(\?[a-z0-9+_\-\.%=&]*)?)?(#[a-zA-Z0-9!$&'()*+.=-_~:@/?]*)?)(\s+|$)/gi
EMOJI_DIRECTORY = "/path/to/assets/emoji/20x20"
# Handlebars is presumed, but you could swap out
ESCAPE_EXPRESSION_FUNCTION = Handlebars.Utils.escapeExpression
MARKSAFE_FUNCTION = (str) -> new Handlebars.SafeString(str)
# Emoji unicode chars become images.