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James @43081j.com · 14h

It is difficult to describe 😅 it will mostly be done already for sure, somewhere. Just a way to render an "image" as ASCII. But the image is any "canvas" (just data of pixels or something)

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James @43081j.com · 15h

Heading to Amsterdam for @viteconf.org 🥳

Come find me if you're going and say hi!

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James @43081j.com · 15h

That's how it was in my old place too. An API for the UI, and various APIs that connects to

James @43081j.com · 15h

I was playing with rendering things to ASCII 😅 so basically wanted an engine that does all the math but leaves the output to me

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James @43081j.com · 17h

I wish JS had a concept of symbol servers

Source maps are usually not loaded but are often the largest part of a package. It would be better if dev tools lazy loaded them

I did try to build this but node didn't support remote source maps at the time 😕

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James @43081j.com · 19h

With this popular pattern of mixing your front-end and backend logic into one file - how many real world projects are architected that way?

Isn't it still true that most companies have a separate backend, usually not the same repo, and often not the same language?

Or has that changed? 👀

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James @43081j.com · 22h

Congratulations 🙌

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James @43081j.com · 1d

working on a zero-dependency lock file parser if anyone's interested!

this will likely be used in the e18e CLI and GitHub action.

useful where you don't want to pull a YAML parser in but do want to delve into a lockfile generically

GitHub - 43081j/lockparse: A tiny zero-dependency lockfile parser.

A tiny zero-dependency lockfile parser. Contribute to 43081j/lockparse development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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James @43081j.com · 1d

no worries! you are correct. i'll update when i can 👍

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James @43081j.com · 1d

parsing lock files today - lot of repetition in them to say the least 😅

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James @43081j.com · 1d

good feedback! i'll open a PR for it when i can 👍

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James @43081j.com · 2d

Just in case you missed this

Still, that was this year some time. Change log doesn't seem to mention it

James @43081j.com · 2d

It turns out we were running a somewhat old Firefox (131). At some point between then and 141, the stack traces changed

But afaict chrome is the odd one out in that the at-format is some kind of standard

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James @43081j.com · 2d

It turns out we were running a somewhat old Firefox (131). At some point between then and 141, the stack traces changed

But afaict chrome is the odd one out in that the at-format is some kind of standard

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James @43081j.com · 2d

We went from 132 to 141. Big jump! That explains a lot

So 132 must have chrome stacks and 141 has standard ones

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James @43081j.com · 2d

I also asked copilot 😅 and apparently the at-format is the standard. So Chrome is the odd one out!

This is good to know

The chai tests have been this way for a while I think but we haven't updated Firefox for several months. So not sure what happened there 😄

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James @43081j.com · 2d

In Firefox the stack traces are `name@loc` format now but used to be the same as Chrome: `at name (loc)`

Should be fine but was a surprise!

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James @43081j.com · 2d

I can't seem to find much. It could have happened a while ago too. I'm not sure if playwright automatically pulls the latest one

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James @43081j.com · 2d

fortunately in our case, only in our tests it seems :D

James @43081j.com · 2d

ouch

firefox shipped a change that means stack traces no longer say `at {fn} {location}`

some libraries were relying on that pattern 👀

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James @43081j.com · 3d

may be possible, i think my idea is a lot more difficult than i expected now anyway 😅

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James @43081j.com · 3d

does anyone know of an agnostic render/animation lib in JS?

basically given a matrix as if thats an "image", apply some transition/animation to it (e.g. scale it up) and give me the mutated matrix

someone somewhere must've already done all of this math im sure 😅

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James @43081j.com · 3d

I think we're better off curating it
Quite a lot of things are not replacements, they are new capabilities
As soon as you start generating things too, I think lists like this become less useful and more like a link dump

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James @43081j.com · 3d

we've started building out an "awesome" list for @e18e.dev 🎉

this should provide a good resource for finding modern libraries and tools. contributions welcome!

GitHub - e18e/awesome-e18e: A curated list of awesome e18e-focused packages

A curated list of awesome e18e-focused packages. Contribute to e18e/awesome-e18e development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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James @43081j.com · 5d

Community building is good fun 🩵

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James @43081j.com · 5d

Got some top winds here too. It's great fun seeing trees flying by 😅

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