TIL - Today I Learned

This is a feed of tiny memos highlighting the most interesting things I learned recently.

• [2025-03-28] Partytown allows running heavy JavaScript in a background thread
  
• [2025-03-15] NextJS might need an encryption key to implement closures in Server Actions
  
• [2025-03-14] jujutsu is a VCS written in Rust (compatible with git and other backends)
  
• [2025-03-06] NextJS's global-error.js boundary is only displayed on prod
  
• [2025-02-27] el.style.cssText should be used for assignment to el.style
  
• [2025-02-26] GitHub supports RegExp search since October 2022
  
• [2025-02-25] NextJS does not provide a secure way to use cookies during SSR pass
  
• [2025-02-23] HTTP-status 308 to be preferred over HTTP-status 301 in most cases
  
• [2025-02-21] webpack RAM consumption can be adjusted via paralellism config
  
• [2025-02-04] TypeScript Explorer is invaluable when debugging complex types
  
• [2025-01-04] public suffix list determines eTLD which restricts where cookies can be set
  
• [2025-01-02] DOMPurify's parse-serialize-parse cycle can lead to XSS
  
• [2024-12-23] AST explorer helps with AST (e.g. writing ESLint rules) and not just in JS
  
• [2024-12-16] Haskell's mtl helps manage side-effects, but freer-simple is also good
  
• [2024-12-15] Haskell's ReadP allows to easily parse strings into abstract trees
  
• [2024-12-14] git-way isn't supperior, there are also "patch theory"-based darcs and pijul