Nikita Vasilyev

Developer Tools developer. ex-Apple, I worked on WebKit Inspector for a decade. I do partner acrobatics in my free time.

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@argyleink Outline of OPFS files in Application tab. Need to see the files with their sizes and last modified time.
I’m currently using a console snippet for that.

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I find it also interesting that "You're Donald Knuth" generated an optimal leetcode answer but if you specifically ask "Answer leetcode" it comes up with a much worse solution.

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I've been consistently getting better ChatGPT answers for algorithmic questions by starting with "You're Donald Knuth"

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Without "You're Donald Knuth": https://t.co/q47axKCYi7

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With "You're Donald Knuth": https://t.co/KHC6GpOkot

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@salomartin @auchenberg Do you have a link?

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@auchenberg From private testing to public — that was fast!

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@FreyaHolmer I wrote this 11 years ago and it’s still relevant 🥲

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That aside, it seems like if you're a beginner programmer and you need to do this exact task, you're much better off with leetcode solutions or StackOverflow, at least for now https://t.co/hMBvrKNzgD

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Asked ChatGPT to write a JS function that, given a non case-sensitive prefix, returns all matches from a sorted array. Most of the time, it didn't even use binary search. https://t.co/zC0u3sA3PD

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I'll start every algorithmic question with "Pretend you're Donald Knuth." from now on 😂https://t.co/0Efs57bpyJ

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@DmitryBaranovsk Weirdly satisfying

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@nicolas_dev_ @mitsuhiko You could, if not the issue above.

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Object.keys(obj) in JS returns keys in insertion order but TIL:
1. When a key can be parsed to int and back to string, and stay the same, those keys move to the front

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@gsnedders I'm not sure what you mean. There seem to be some heuristics in Chrome DevTools (and WebKit just the same) to sort the keys in some cases.

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2. Chrome DevTools in some cases show keys in different order (sorted, not insertion order)

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More on this: https://t.co/fjnQ3rWzTn

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@antimatter15 ✋