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This snippet is useful when applied to events that occur many times such as resize and scroll, particularly when the callback does heavy processing. It throttles the calls to the callback by only calling in to the callback if the event has not occurred again in the last 300ms. This technique is called ‘debouncing’.

Mozilla Firefox recently implemented the highly anticipated CSS variables spec. Since then, some articles started appearing hinting that they are now largely obsolete with the advent and widespread use of preprocessors like Sass, Less, and Stylus. I would argue however that they provide something that preprocessors can’t, well at least can’t efficiently.