Hauke T.

Hauke T. @htho

About: Usabilty Engineer and JavaScript/TypeScript Developer. On the path to become a Clean Code Developer. Also rediscovering OOP-Principals and Design-Patterns.

Location:
Würzburg, Germany
Joined:
Dec 4, 2019

Hauke T.
articles - 11 total

Today, Google search AI hallucinated a new HTML-Entity to display a double left arrow (⇐): `&larrarr;`. In fact it should be `⇐` html.spec.whatwg.org/#entity-lArr

html.spec.whatwg.org

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Updating to Jest 30 is Frustrating (it's JSDOM)

It's time to update from Jest 29 to 30 for me. Except I can't. At least not completely. The...

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Testing is hard these days: Jest 30 with JSDOM 21 won't let me mock `window.location` and Chrome 141 broke TestCafe with its new "LocalNetworkAccessChecks". 🤮

A post by Hauke T.

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Thought of the Day: Most companies are not willing to pay developers to maintain OSS-Software. OSS-Developers may introduce breaking changes as they see fit. Companies have to pay the price, when they have to upgrade their dependencies regularly.

A post by Hauke T.

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David Gilbertson Warned us About The Latest NPM Attack

In the light of the latest Supply-Chain Attack on npm, which (among others) hit chalk, I can't help...

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Something is Odd About MDN These Days - And Googles AI is Gaslighting me About it...

I went to MDN today and thought "something is odd about the font...". So I went to google and asked:...

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TIL: Synchronous import in ES-Modules using module.createRequire (Node)

I've been looking for a way to inject a configuration file like process.cwd()+"/my-config.js" into a...

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Jest Recap: Safely Mock Properties and Methods of Global Objects

TL;DR: You want to avoid that overridden/mocked properties/methods affect other...

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Jest Recap: What Runs When?

TL;DR: Execution Order Everything on the top-level and in describe() blocks (where...

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Wibbles - W(eb) (N)ibbles - Recreating "The Worm", Snake, Nibbles and the like

Do you remember NIBBLES.BAS from your old DOS Computer? Well I do. But I also remember "Der...

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Jest Recap: Access `private` Members in TypeScript Unit Tests

TL;DR: Use bracket notation to Access private...

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