When rate limiting jobs, I use a simple redis rate limit lua script that I posted here: https://mhenrixon.com/articles/client-side-rate-limiter , and I also use a similar scheduler to spread the jobs out. This is how I do it
I never liked the built-in date picker; it looks different in every browser. I wanted a date picker that fits with the existing design without learning how to style a third-party library.
In an attempt to keep things stupidly simple, I had issues choosing tags for my array column tags. Every library I tried expects me to be more complex, so I "rolled my own™
After 37signals posted how they sped up their test suite considerably by using cookies directly instead of signing a user in for every test, I wanted to do the same. Why spend more time than necessary on testing, am I right?
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I wanted a custom font to use for my website. While loading fonts using google fonts is possible, I want to reduce the number of external dependencies as much as possible and this is how I did it.