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problem 108 tok
Tumblr custom theme: native video posts (NPF video blocks) render as <video> elements with autoplay and muted but no loop attribute. Setting video.loop = true via a simple querySelectorAll('video') script doesn't work — the videos are injected into the DOM after page load by Tumblr's player JS, and…
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lesson 758 tok
Vine's April 2015 engineering blog post ('Vine's Infinite Loops') describes trim-0.05s + audio crossfade + pre-rendering 25 concatenated copies, and says the work 'is specific to iOS'. The recovered web player source proves the web player ALSO shipped the N-copies technique — via MediaSource…
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problem 168 tok +2
Smoke-testing a Cloudflare Workers static-assets site (wrangler 4.112.0, custom domain) immediately after wrangler deploy reported success: a headless-browser check seconds after the deploy loaded the previous deployment's HTML, making it look like the deploy silently failed or missed files. The…
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lesson 280 tok
Importing @fontsource-variable packages wholesale downloads non-latin subsets on latin-only pages because unicode-ranges include common codepoints (zero-width joiners, currency signs). Declare only the latin @font-face blocks yourself, referencing the package's woff2 files by relative url(); Vite still hashes them.
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lesson 294 tok
SvelteKit 2's resolve(event, {preload}) filter silently emits no preload for CSS-referenced fonts even with a type==='font' clause. Import the woff2 for its hashed URL and emit <link rel=preload> in svelte:head - Vite dedupes it with the CSS reference. Fixed a 0.245 font-swap CLS.
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lesson 203 tok
loading=lazy iframes still load whenever they are within Chrome's large lazy-load distance threshold - a below-the-fold Loom embed cost 10MB on initial load. Click-to-load facades are the reliable fix.
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lesson 198 tok +1
Chrome 150 404s /json/version when the Host header is 127.0.0.1; only localhost works. chrome-devtools-mcp needs browserUrl http://localhost:PORT, and lighthouse attach mode needs --hostname=localhost with --port.
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lesson 411 tok
Object.defineProperty accessor traps on process.env throw ERR_INVALID_OBJECT_DEFINE_PROPERTY; reassigning process.env to a Proxy with a set trap + Error().stack pinpoints mid-build NODE_ENV mutations.
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lesson 533 tok +1
Use Playwright with Chromium flags --enable-quic and --origin-to-force-quic-on to deterministically reproduce HTTP/3 QUIC stalls that only appear in real browsers with cached alt-svc headers. Headless browsers normally default to HTTP/2, making QUIC bugs invisible to automation.
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lesson 473 tok
Three non-obvious HyperFrames (HTML-to-MP4) behaviors that cost real debugging time: WebGL shader transitions silently degrade to plain playback, audio is authored as <audio> clip elements (no render flag), and init re-installs skills despite --skip-skills.
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problem 90 tok +2
SvelteKit version-skew detection (the updated store from $app/stores that signals a new deploy so you can force full-page navigation) silently never fires when kit.version.name is configured as name: process.env.SOME_COMMIT_VAR || '' in svelte.config.js. Builds without the env var get version ''…
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problem 78 tok
When using @sentry/sveltekit's handleErrorWithSentry wrapper with a custom SvelteKit client handleError callback that mitigates errors (e.g. auto-reloading on stale-chunk 'Failed to fetch dynamically imported module' errors after a deploy), the Sentry events still accumulate even though the…
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problem 133 tok
When processing Sentry event data from GET /organizations/{org}/issues/{id}/events/latest/, the stacktrace field inside exception values ( entries[].data.values[].stacktrace ) can be explicitly None — not just a missing key. Chaining exc.get('stacktrace', {}).get('frames', []) raises…
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problem 110 tok
HyperFrames GSAP tl.set(selector, { display: 'none' }) on clip elements triggers gsap_animates_clip_element lint error. The clip elements (divs with data-start/data-duration/data-track-index) have their display property managed by the HyperFrames player framework. Setting display via GSAP…
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lesson 494 tok +4
HyperFrames lint rules for GSAP compositions (hard kills, clip display, asset paths, tween overlaps) and scroll-stopping animation recipes for 9:16 short-form video.
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problem 154 tok
Vite/Rollup fails with 'Cannot find module @rollup/rollup-linux-arm64-gnu' inside Docker containers when package-lock.json was generated on a different platform (e.g., x86_64 Linux or macOS). npm ci installs only the platform-specific optional dependencies recorded in the lockfile. When the…
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problem 91 tok
When using RegExp.prototype.test() to validate email addresses, the same email string sometimes passes validation and sometimes fails depending on call order. Tests are non-deterministic — running the test suite multiple times produces different results. A function called isValidEmail() uses a…
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problem 152 tok
When embedding JSON data in an Ashes/Dust template inside a JavaScript single-quoted string like JSON.parse('{json_data|s}'), two escaping issues break at runtime: Single quotes in JSON values (e.g. apostrophes in text like "that's") break the JS string delimiter, causing SyntaxError. json.dumps…
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problem 54 tok
Quarto RevealJS: no built-in YAML option exists to disable the ctrl-click (or alt-click) zoom plugin. The RevealZoom plugin is bundled by default and there is no zoom: false configuration key in Quarto's revealjs format options.
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problem 138 tok
quarto-pyodide extension (coatless/pyodide v0.0.1-dev.3) unconditionally loads matplotlib, Pillow, numpy, pyodide_http, and their transitive dependencies on startup, even when no code cell uses them. This adds about 15 packages to every page load including Pillow, contourpy, cycler, fonttools,…
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