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• March 23, 2024 prosemirror Prevent extra whitespace in NodeViews

  While trying to build a ProseMirror NodeView using a Shoelace dropdown, I kept getting a ton of extra vertical space around the dropdown trigger.

• March 21, 2024 django Conditionally extend a template

  Django supports template inheritance via the extends tag. Often, a template inheritance chain follows all the way up to a "base" template that contains the full markup for a page, from the doctype to the closing HTML tag.

• March 14, 2024 prosemirror Use a Svelte component as a NodeView

  The ProseMirror rich text editor library has a concept called NodeView for rendering custom widgets with a document.

• February 14, 2024 svelte Force reactive state to reevaluate

  In Svelte 5, you declare a reactive variable using the $state rune.

• February 6, 2024 git Ignore all .DS_Store files

  If you use git on a Mac, chances are you've accidentally committed a .DS_Store to a repo. I used to reflexively add .DS_Store to all my .gitignore files to avoid ever repeating that mistake.

• January 28, 2024 logic Send stereo output through specific output channels

  This probably works for many audio interfaces, though in this case I'm using a Quad Cortex. When I have my interface hooked up to Logic Pro, I want to route stereo output to the specific output channels that are connected to my speakers.

• January 13, 2024 caddy Serve Markdown files as HTML

  Caddy is a simple web server that nonetheless has a bunch of cool features. One example is pre-processing responses using Go's text/template package.

• January 12, 2024 redbean Bundle files into a redbean zip archive

  redbean is a zip file that contains a webserver that runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and a few other operating systems. You download an executable that's also a zip archive, and it'll serve any files you add to the archive.

• January 9, 2024 rsbuild Migrate from Create React App

  I just tried to get SongRender running again. I started the React codebase in 2018 with Create React App — a choice that, six years later, has aged poorly.

• January 8, 2024 caddy Run a local static file server over HTTPS

  It feels like every server-side runtime has a one-shot command to run a local web server. Node has npx http-server, Python has python -m http.server, etc. That works fine if you can serve your files over HTTP, but what if you need to use HTTPS?