Element.closest()
“This is an experimental technology Because this technology’s specification has not stabilized, check the compatibility table for usage in various browsers.”
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JavaScript: incorrect mouse coords (pageX and pageY in fullscreen mode)
“But, it have some problem: if in Firefox I changed fullscreen mode, image get incorrect coords. You should add onresize event handler to check if user enters into full screen mode and calculate the new position of mouse in this case.”
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Pointer Lock API
“The Pointer Lock API (formerly called Mouse Lock API) provides input methods based on the movement of the mouse over time (i.e., deltas), not just the absolute position of the mouse cursor in the viewport.”
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How can I exclude a directory from Visual Studio Code “Explore” tab?
“I’m trying to exclude several folders on the “Explore” tab in Visual Studio Code. To do that I have added a following jsconfig.json to the root of my project: But the “node_modules” folder is still visible in the directory tree. What am I doing wrong? Are there any other options?”
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Commit only part of a file in Git
“When I make changes to a file in Git, how can I commit only some of the changes? For example, how could I commit only 15 lines out of 30 lines that have been changed in a file?”
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A command to list all users? And how to add, delete, modify users?
“Stack Exchange network consists of 173 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. I need a command to list all users in terminal. And how to add, delete, modify users from terminal.”
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A Sage 9 + ACF debugging technique
“Thought I would share a debugging technique that’s working out well for me at the moment. I’ve never had any successes getting Xdebug and VS Code to play nicely but this technique also covers Advanced Custom Fields too.”
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What is the cleanest way to ssh and run multiple commands in Bash?
“Now, what I’d really like to do is run a lot of long commands on an external server. Enclosing all of these in between quotation marks would be quite ugly, and I’d really rather avoid ssh’ing multiple times just to avoid this.”
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rsync delete files on sending side after transfer
“I want to download a large amount of data from a remote machine. I’d like the data to be erased on the remote machine everytime a file finishes downloading. How do I do that? Is there a flag for rsync to do this?”
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Binding and unbinding of event handlers
“How to attach or detach a handler function to an event, such as click, focus, or submit. Modern browsers support addEventListener() and removeEventListener() for adding or removing event handlers; IE 8 has its own methods.”
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