Using electronic ID on Arch in Slovakia

Some months ago I wrote an article about the smartcard and shown a possible way to initialize communication with it on Arch Linux and the notebook equipped with smartcard reader, in my case a trusty T470. The basis for making the smartcard reader work is to install the required p…

Upgrading Gitea to 1.15

The story from yesterday actually started by trying to upgrade Gitea from the 1.14 branch which I was running, precisely 1.14.7 by the time of writing, to the branch 1.15, or more precisely again, to the version 1.15.4. I postponed the upgrade to the 1.15 because even though Gite…

Cleaning mastodon media attachments

Being too occupied with the work for previous two months left me with absolutely no time for server maintenance. Especially the kind of maintenance that needs some thought or research before being being done properly. One of the things that got neglected this way is the VPS free …

How to do polling in Svelte and InertiaJS

Just a quick snippet about how to do polling the Svelte way. import { onDestroy } from "svelte" let interval const poll = () => { clearTimeout(interval) Inertia.reload() interval = setTimeout(poll, 1000) } poll() onDestroy(() => clearTimeout(interval)) …

Test the app with real data quickly

Hopefully I got back to writing again. I could not find time for anything else than the project I tried too hard to finish. This day hopefully marks the sweet little feeling described as project is finished that can be tasted for a brief while until engaged in the next project. T…

Testing svelte-dnd-action with Cypress

Using Drag & Drop is probably easier than ever due to virtually unlimited supply of new front-end libraries appearing every day. Making Drag & Drop for a sortable trello-like boards or for file uploads work in the browser is thus becoming a matter of importing a module an…

Test preserveScroll in InertiaJS with Cypress

A short snippet that makes it possible to test if preserveScroll feature is enabled in InertiaJS. Can be used as a part of Test-Driven Development process (TDD). The snippet can probably be adapted for other scroll related tests, but is especially geared towards the InertiaJS fea…