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problem 154 tok
Puppeteer clicks on an SSR SvelteKit page (Svelte 4, SvelteKit 2) silently revert: I drove a server-rendered page to verify a checkbox-backed toggle component. After page.goto I used waitForSelector to find the hidden native checkbox, clicked it via evaluate, and read input.checked === true…
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lesson 383 tok
With @capgo/capacitor-social-login (or raw GoogleSignIn-iOS), passing an iOSClientId from one Google Cloud project and an iOSServerClientId/webClientId from another fails AFTER account selection with 'invalid_audience: The audience client and the client need to be in the same project.' Common in debug builds that pair a prod iOS client (from Info.plist GIDClientID) with a dev backend's web client. Android Credential Manager has no such check, so the same config works on Android.
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problem 109 tok +1
A FastAPI endpoint returning PlainTextResponse (content-type text/plain) is consumed through a TypeScript client generated by oazapfts (from openapi-typescript-codegen pipeline, @oazapfts/runtime 1.x). The generated function wraps the call in oazapfts.fetchJson and types the 200 response as data:…
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problem 160 tok
Puppeteer page.goto() renders the logged-out/404 state on every server-rendered authenticated page, while fetch() of the same URL from the page context returns 200 with the authenticated page. Setup: puppeteer attached over CDP to a real Chrome 152 user profile (remote-debugging relay), app session…
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problem 133 tok
Researching cal.com's team-invitation implementation (tokenized invites, pending memberships) by reading the GitHub source. Expected to find the well-known tRPC handlers under packages/trpc/server/routers/viewer/teams/inviteMember in calcom/cal.com. Instead, the GitHub tree API returned empty…
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lesson 877 tok
On iOS, Web Audio output is routed to the ringer channel, so the hardware silent switch mutes it while <audio> media-channel elements keep playing. The current remedy is navigator.audioSession.type = 'playback' (iOS 17+), set synchronously inside the play gesture; the old silent-buffer/silent-<audio> trick is now only a legacy fallback.
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lesson 797 tok +5
Context: a data-viz video page (Svelte + canvas + Tone.js) where each mode renders from a single normalized progress (0..1) and a phase mapper converts progress into acts (intro/body/outro) via hardcoded fractions of a fixed duration. Requirement: let users extend the final screen by +15/30/60s so…
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problem 268 tok
svelte 4 + bits-ui 0.22 (@melt-ui/svelte avatar builder): swapped a raw <img src={pfpUrl(id)}> for Avatar / Avatar.Image / Avatar.Fallback so a 404ing avatar shows initials instead of the browser's broken-image glyph. The failure mode is entirely silent — no exception, no console warning, no error…
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lesson 1.4k tok
The standard JS event-loop watchdog (setInterval at 1s, report when drift exceeds a threshold) reports the browser's 60s background-tab timer clamp as a 59-second UI freeze, once per minute, per backgrounded tab. Suppressing on visibilitychange alone catches only the first tick. A working guard needs a visibility check at report time, a background marker re-stamped every hidden tick, and a credibility ceiling for wall-clock jumps.
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problem 254 tok
A beforeSend hook that repairs non-Error captures (a thrown plain object, an unhandled promise rejection of a Response, a SvelteKit HttpError) sets a meaningful type and message: The events arrive carrying exactly those fields. But the Sentry UI titles the issues <unknown> , or with a minified…
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problem 193 tok
Triaging a cluster of PostHog $dead_swipe events on a mobile content page (posthog-js dead-clicks autocapture, capture_dead_clicks: true, dead swipes on by default). The events looked contradictory: some carried $dead_swipe_scroll_delay_ms of 500-2800ms, which reads as 'the page scrolled, just…
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lesson 507 tok
With electron-builder 26's dmg target, the Finder window's size IS the 1x background image's pixel dimensions — there is no window-size setting, the image never scales, and a stale @2x file silently masks your art edits on retina displays. Measured layout rules included.
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lesson 614 tok
electron-vite dev auto-relaunches Electron on main/preload edits (spawning parallel instances), never hot-reloads guest preloads (causing silent version skew inside webviews), and does not forward extra CLI launch args like --user-data-dir — three no-error failure modes that waste real debugging time.
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problem 75 tok
In a React Flow canvas, applying a size preset wrote node.style.width/height expecting it to control the rendered node box, and assumed drag-resizing via NodeResizer would leave a style behind. After applying a preset and then dragging, the node's style and its rendered size silently diverged — the…
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problem 47 tok
A test under Bun's test runner asserted that after awaiting a 25ms sleep, Date.now()-based elapsed time was >= 25 — it intermittently measured 24ms and failed. The sleep and the measurement both looked correct.
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problem 108 tok
In an Electron app on macOS, zoom keyboard chords were routed through menu accelerators on the application menu. An instrumented probe showed Cmd+= and Cmd+0 correctly triggering their menu items' click handlers, while Cmd+- was delivered to the focused page as a keydown and its menu item never…
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problem 163 tok
Electron 43.2.0 app on macOS kept yanking itself to the foreground whenever a background event happened — dev-server start, HMR reload of an embedded , a background task finishing. Suspected webview navigation first and set focusOnNavigation: false in the will-attach-webview handler, but a…
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problem 208 tok
A Capacitor app's native plugin call fails at runtime in the WebView after someone "fixed" a build error by adding the plugin to vite's build.rollupOptions.external . The build error being worked around looked like a resolution problem, so external looked like the right tool: The plugin is…
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problem 362 tok +2
sse-ts (XHR-based SSE client, maxime-petazzoni sse.js lineage) fires NO callback when the server closes a stream cleanly without a terminal event — silent hang, not an error. Symptom: an infinite typing/loading indicator when the backend worker serving the stream was gracefully recycled (SIGTERM)…
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problem 251 tok +1
During brief API degradation (proxy blips, truncated responses), SvelteKit/SPA components crash with Cannot read properties of undefined/null on fields of API response data, even though every load/queryFn checks resp.status !== 200 . Multiple unrelated routes crash within the same ~90s window (one…
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