dont reinvent велосипед

You should probably use enum flags

Dafne Kiyui — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0800

Enum flags are a clever optimisation technique that make use of bitwise logic operations paired with enumerated types that sadly see a lack of use in more modern codebases and languages such as JavaScript, in spite of enums being otherwise fairly popular in TypeScript.

enum Guild {
  Mage,
  Rogue,
  Warrior …

4 years at Piktochart

Dafne Kiyui — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0800

On Tuesday, the 27th of July 2021, I served my final day at Piktochart. I spent 4 years and some change at the company, joining as a JavaScript intern and leaving a DevOp & backend engineer for Piktostory. Piktochart was my first “real” job and having spent a good part of …

installing google-cloud-sdk on apple silicon m1 (early 2021)

Dafne Kiyui — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0800

If you were to attempt to install google-cloud-sdk natively (via Homebrew) on Apple Silicon, you'd get the following error:

$ brew install --cask google-cloud-sdk
# etc...
==> Installing Cask google-cloud-sdk
Beginning update. This process may take several minutes.
ERROR: (gcloud.components.update) The following components are unknown [kuberun, anthoscli].
==> Purging files for version …

how to fix the zsh setup on macos

Dafne Kiyui — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0800

Apple has defaulted macOS to using the zsh shell since macOS Catalina. For many, the switch (if they weren't already using zsh) was as simple as running chsh -s /bin/zsh and everything would appear to be working just fine.

On brand new Macs however, both the .zprofile and .zshrc …

how to use a valid email when signing up for Sephora

Dafne Kiyui — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0800

Please don't take anything in this article seriously.

Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo! Mail are popular options for creating incredible email addresses that will be compliant with most software and are allowed to bypass sophisticated spam filters as the following:

<?php

if (endsWith($sender, "gmail.com") ||
    endsWith($sender, 'yahoo.com') ||
    endsWith …

Free and open source software and GitHub

Dafne Kiyui — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0800

The news that youtube-dl had been struck by DMCA takedown notice by RIAA has been circulating in many tech circles such as Hacker News, inviting regular criticism of GitHub and the volatility of software hosting platforms. Akin to when Microsoft acquired GitHub or when GitHub banned users in Iran (among …

how to migrate your GitHub repository to Codeberg

Dafne Kiyui — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0800

The easiest way to migrate repositories is to simply change where your local repository remote points to. In a locally cloned repository, assert that you should have a git remote (usually named origin) by running git remote -v:

origin  git@github.com:username/repository.git (fetch)
origin  git@github.com …

rewriting "gnome screenshot locations"

Dafne Kiyui — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0800

I know I previously said that I'd follow up my rewriting "night light slider" article with that detailing the write up of the preferences panel,

This article would be followed up by a write-up of the preferences panel rewrite

...but I am a true open source developer that lacks accountability …

rewriting "night light slider"

Dafne Kiyui — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0800

I'm the author of the Night Light Slider extension for GNOME Shell. When I originally authored the extension in late 2017, my intention was to simply add a slider, kin to the brightness slider, to manage the temperature of the GNOME Shell "Night Light" feature. A couple of feature requests …

"debounce" in gjs

Dafne Kiyui — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0800

The following code is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later:

/* exported debounce */
const {GLib} = imports.gi;

/**
 * Copyright 2020 Dafne Kiyui
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as …