Oikio Oikio

If you are seeing Mongo soft rlimits warnings in your logs, or a WARNING: soft rlimits too low. Number of files is 256, should be at least 1000 when you login to mongo shell via mongo from the commandline, or any mysterious/unexplained mongo connection errors... follow this how-to exactly and it will resolve the issue for you.

(Source of this how to found at basho/basho_docs#1402)

First file: sudo vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/limit.maxfiles.plist

...containing:

Please consider using http://lygia.xyz instead of copy/pasting this functions. It expand suport for voronoi, voronoise, fbm, noise, worley, noise, derivatives and much more, through simple file dependencies. Take a look to https://github.com/patriciogonzalezvivo/lygia/tree/main/generative

Generic 1,2,3 Noise

float rand(float n){return fract(sin(n) * 43758.5453123);}

float noise(float p){
	float fl = floor(p);
  float fc = fract(p);

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

This is no longer a bug. I'm keeping the gist for historical reasons, as it helped to get it fixed. Make sure to read the notes by the end of the post.

How to remove hide the select arrow in Firefox using `-moz-appearance:none;`

TL;DR (or, the fix)

Set -moz-appearance to none. This will "reset" the styling of the element;
Set text-indent to 0.01px. This will "push" the text a tiny bit^[1] to the right;

	export default ( keyOrHash, handler ) =>
	function config( el, init, ctxt ){
	if( init ) return

	const hash = handler ? {
	[ keyOrHash ] : handler
	} : keyOrHash

	for( let key in hash )
	if( hash.hasOwnProperty( key ) )

	'use strict';

	var m = require('mithril');
	var t = require('client/utils/translate');
	var vagueTime = require('vague-time');
	var l16n = require('client/utils/l16n');


	function assignValue(obj, objAttr) {
	return function (event) {

	// utilizes the browser eventsystem
	// usefull in cases where you need communication between independent components
	// registered events are automatically removed onunload with preserving any other onunload handler
	var eventsMixin = function(target) {

	var _subscriptions = [];

	target.broadcast = function(type, payload) {
	var ev = new CustomEvent(type, {
	detail: payload,

	<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="title">
	{{view.title}}
	</script>

	<script type="text/x-handlebars">
	<header class="topbar">{{view App.TitleView}}</header>
	</script>

	function Foo(who) {
	this.me = who;
	}

	Foo.prototype.identify = function() {
	return "I am " + this.me;
	};

	function Bar(who) {
	Foo.call(this,"Bar:" + who);