Notes

11 August 2023

  • Pushing to GitHub gists only work with SSH.

9 January 2022

  • Cloudflare does not support pnpm by default, but can be workaround with the build command npx pnpm i --store=node_modules/.pnpm-store && npm run build and environment variable NPM_FLAGS = --version.

8 January 2022

  • You cannot sign in to Google if Safari has the requestIdleCallback experimental option turned on. Thanks.

6 June 2021

  • Bundlers compile ESM to CJS with module.export.default for compatibility with CJS in ESM. This only happens if you have named exports, as CJS doesn't exactly support it. This is also the reason for require('module').default syntax.

3 June 2021

  • Playwright doesn't like using Chromium browser running --single-process in Ubuntu

2 June 2021

  • Gqless generates GraphQL queries on the fly by sniffing variable usages. Likely with Proxies.

16 May 2021

  • 20 GB partition size for Linux root directory is not enough for snaps.

14 May 2021

  • Vagrant setups an entire stack on your PC, including the OS. Feels like a waste of storage and bandwidth, with the only benefit of saving time.

10 May 2021

  • WebView browser versions in Android emulators are usually pinned and can't be upgraded.

8 May 2021

  • Svelte createEventDispatcher() and bubble() (the logic that forwards DOM events) have similar code that simulates dispatching an event.

7 May 2021

  • @vitejs/plugin-legacy set modernPolyfills: true and renderLegacyChunks: false to only build polyfills for the generated chunks.

6 May 2021

  • To make sure Vite and plugins know they're working on production build, set process.env.VITE_USER_NODE_ENV = "production".

4 May 2021

  • In Ubuntu, if ~/ disk space runs out and unable to start the GUI, go to ctrl-alt-f2 (or any other fn except f1). Make disk space there.

2 May 2021

  • Scroll-snapped list need scroll-snap-align property in the children.

30 May 2021

  • Terser doesn't mangle DOM polyfills well. e.g. function CustomEvent() {} will not work whether it's scoped or not. I should probably report this bug.

28 April 2021

  • If BIOS doesn't boot GRUB, but booted Windows instead, go to BIOS menu and manually boot with GRUB, then enter sudo efibootmgr -o 0 1 to switch the boot sequence between the 0th and 1st bootloader (or similar command).

16 April 2021

  • Transfering money via cryptocurrencies is a very viable option to PayPal or TransferWise.

11 April 2021

  • Svelte compiler exposes metadata, including vars.

9 April 2021

  • When you have a git branch relation like: master < feat-a < feat-b. If feat-a gets squash merged into master, and to get feat-b merged into master, run git rebase master -i to interactively drop squash commits and rebase. Note the commits will be recommitted, changing commit time.

6 April 2021

  • In bash, $() means execute and return a value; \ means execute only

5 April 2021

  • Babel is only a parser/transpiler, nothing fancy

3 April 2021

  • When reading the source of a software, remember that you're reading bleeding-edge code that may not be released yet.

30 March 2021

  • VSCode has a search editor that places the search result directly in code view.

29 March 2021

  • Sentry release version needs to match the SDK's release name.

  • Facebook created Origami Design that has much better and programmable prototyping functionality.

28 March 2021

  • @vue/compiler-sfc automatically transforms asset URLs to JS imports.

  • @vue/compiler-sfc splits Vue SFCs into 3 virtual imports for template, script, and style. These virtual import paths are appended query strings to denote additional metadata. Flexible enough to allow integration for Vite, Rollup, and Webpack.

  • @vue/compiler-sfc uses @babel/parser to parse JS, TS, and other superset syntax via the plugins options, allowing it to support many syntax out-of-the-box.

  • Vue SFC and Svelte supports superset languages like TypeScript and Postcss by implementing a preprocess API, but this API is bound by the respective parser/compiler rather than the bundler, resulting in duplicated preprocessing configuration. @sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte is leveraging bundler preprocess with useVitePreprocess option.

26 March 2021

  • TypeScript uses a neat trick to check if the filesystem is case-sensitive. Given a valid file path, if we invert the casings and it still exists, that means it's case-insenstive.

25 March 2021

22 March 2021

  • Node streams apply backpressuring to prevent memory monopolization when stream reads is more than writes, because writing to disk is slower than reads.

  • The Web Crypto API doesn't have a streaming API. It's limited to a single pass hashing due to the algorithm limitation. Issue.

19 March 2021

  • linkedom is a DOM parser that walks the tree via flattening it, resulting in O(n) reads.

  • Android emulator WebViews can be inspected via chrome://inspect.