You call `controller.abort()` and it returns immediately, but did everything actually shutdown? The gap between "I asked it to stop" and "it actually stopped" is where leaks hide.
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Have Aasimov's stories of robo-psychology ever been more relevant?
Kotlin, Swift, Python 3.11, and Java 21 all ship it, and Go has libraries to implement it. This is why JavaScript needs Structured Concurrency
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The first line of context for me in any AI interaction that allows presets is "do not kiss my ass"
From a friend treating me as his board gaming guinea pig: "The next one I want you to try out is Dice Throne, which is basically 'what if Magic but also Yahtzee'"
We're a month into 2026 and its still not clear after googling, stack overflowing and asking AI how to do asynchronous teardown in React.
We're soon going to need 3x more stalls in every public restroom due to the average TTP rising over 600% in the smartphone era.
Wow. A bug I reported in Mocha JS over ten years ago just got fixed github.com/mochajs/moc...
I now check email about once a week
A "Brady" of online meetings
How else will they learn that 85% of the body’s required daily Vitamin E is absorbed through the scalp?
My children listen often in wonderment when I share tales from the before times when, implausible as it may seem to their modern sensibilities, humans were capable of defecating without a phone.
Structured Concurrency in a nutshell: What happens in scope, stays in scope.
The greatest of all time way to enjoy Fritos is sip by sip from coffee mug
It's only a matter of time before someone creates a "TypeShit" programming language.
OTEL metrics tooling and visualizations: 🤯
OTEL Node APIs 🤔
If you wanted to produce a 3D walk through of a re-imagined space, what product would you use? AI or otherwise?
30 years in and I haven't had the need to understand memory alignment and padding thus far, but that's changing with recent forays into wasm-land. This was a very decent treatment medium.com/@haadimdwor...
Permissions, permissions!....... Permissions!
Who must login and type in tty prompts
copy files around. Send commands to the shell
And who must provide their id to every process
and stores all their files in /home
The User, the User!...... Permissions!
The User, the User!...... Permissions!
It's admittedly niche, but oh what a niche! Safe to say that we were the Crosby, Stills, and Nash of impromptu office parody singing.
Fortuitously, I will be there that weekend. So let’s do eet?
AI is quickly ruining bullet point lists for me. Does anybody else find themselves involuntarily tuning out whenever they encounter one?
Pronouncing Gen AI like Forrest Gump says Jenny
Tractor sprinklers, why use anything else?
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Exciting times! We've just released the second beta of Effection 4.0 and most of the work now is in updating documentation.
The correct solution requires knowledge, the boilerplate solution requires discipline. Not the same thing :-)
It’s something that definitely should be clarified. The article is more about the pitfalls of abort controller, so I hadn’t considered explicit resource based solutions.
Your main function would need to accept an abort signal and propagate it to your sleep()
Ah I see, I meant cancellation before the two minutes are up.
How is cancellation achieved in this example?
