Andrea Giammarchi WebReflection

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Background

I joined the team more than three years ago, and the challenge was clear:

allow as many people as possible to use Python on the Web without even thinking about it
also let them use MicroPython for simpler tasks that should run as soon as possible
give kids, students, professionals, and universities a way into Python through the Web, with no OS or local configuration ceremony 🥳

Create a $HOME/.config/systemd/user/speakers.service file with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Force Speakers Audio
After=pulseaudio.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pactl set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_bd_00.6 "output:analog-stereo"

I've found it quite "disturbing" in 2026 there are APIs that wouldn't use Promise and accept a last argument as function to retrieve data, see: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebchannel-javascript.html#interacting-with-qobjects

Here an easy way to workaround that, where equality of the method is preserved and things would look more modern or easier to reason about.

const { apply } = Reflect;
const { create } = Object;

const wm = new WeakMap;

Given these preferences within the extension:

Be sure that IBus Preferences (ibus-setup) around Emoji won't intercept/override <Super>period

Remove the bindings that you don't prefer/need over the Emoji Copy picker and enjoy 👋

This gist comes after my comment left in the original post.

The pattern is great but the way it was presented not too great:

it's all about queue ownership
the queue cannot iterate in multiple loops because it would create forever pending promises all over
the queue is just an Array after all, so how about we treat it as such?

A class based approach

TextEncoder & TextDecoder shenanigans

This gist is to remind developers that resizable or growable buffers don't play nice with TextEncoder or TextDecoder instances.

Setup

// setup
const ref = new TextEncoder().encode("hello");

This is a simple demo of how latest Bun could've implemented .as(Class) instead of using the quite jurassic Object.create which is slow, bloated due descriptors logic, if used at all, and incapable to play nicely with features introduced after Object.create was even specified.

// what `as(Class)` should return
const { assign } = Object;
const asClass = new WeakMap;
const setAsClass = Class => {
  class As extends Class {
    constructor(fields) {
      assign(super(), fields);

	//@ts-check

	// ⚠️ UPDATED https://gist.github.com/WebReflection/291357aa6bbbd97d54a971ce5f5aae4e?permalink_comment_id=5952616#gistcomment-5952616

	//@ts-ignore
	import custom from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/custom-function/esm/factory.js';

	/** @typedef {'marker' \| 'start' \| 'end'} MarkerType */

	if (!('MARKER_NODE' in Node)) {

	let p = 0;
	const fetchp = (url, ..._) => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
	const src = new URL(url);
	const callback = `__json${p++}`.replace('-', '_');
	src.searchParams.set('callback', callback);
	document.head.appendChild(Object.assign(
	document.createElement('script'),
	{ async: true, onerror: reject, src }
	));
	globalThis[callback] = value => {