A pair of userscripts for cleaning up Stack Exchange sites

A pair of userscripts for cleaning up Stack Exchange sites
I’ve been a regular visitor to Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites over the years, and while I’ve mostly enjoyed the experience, I’ve been frustrated by the lack of control I have over what questions I see. I’m not really interested in looking at questions that have already been closed, or that have a negative score, but there’s no native facility for filtering questions like this. I finally spent the time learning just enough JavaScript to hurt myself to put together a pair of scripts that let me present the questions that way I want:
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Long polling with Javascript and Python

In this post I’m going to step through an example web chat system implemented in Python (with Bottle and gevent) that uses long polling to implement a simple publish/subscribe mechanism for efficiently updating connected clients. My pubsub_example repository on GitHub has a complete project that implements the ideas discussed in this article. This project can be deployed directly on OpenShift if you want to try things out on your own. You can also try it out online at http://pubsub.
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Sockets on OpenShift

In this article, a followup to my previous post regarding long-poll servers and Python, we investigate the code changes that were necessary to make the code work when deployed on OpenShift. In the previous post, we implemented IO polling to watch for client disconnects at the same time we were waiting for messages on a message bus: poll = zmq.Poller() poll.register(subsock, zmq.POLLIN) poll.register(rfile, zmq.POLLIN) events = dict(poll.poll()) . . . If you were to try this at home, you would find that everything worked as described…but if you were to deploy the same code to OpenShift, you would find that the problem we were trying to solve (the server holding file descriptors open after a client disconnected) would still exist.
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