Summary The issue at hand is related to animating text changes in SwiftUI, specifically with a fade transition, in iOS 16 and later. The current approach involves using the .transition(.opacity) modifier along with .id() to uniquely identify the text view and .animation() to specify the animation. However, the provided code does not produce the desired … Read more
Summary The issue described is a long black screen before shutdown on a Windows 10 system, specifically a ThinkPad P50, after the usual shutdown process. This problem is characterized by the screen turning off, Num Lock and Caps Lock LEDs turning off, the power LED turning off, but the audio mute LED remaining on. The … Read more
Summary The issue at hand involves adjusting the positioning and height of specific containers within a web application, built using HTML, CSS, and possibly JavaScript, and viewed in Visual Studio Code with the Live Server extension. The containers in question are part of a larger layout that includes a header, a map, and several interactive … Read more
Summary The error message “curl: (43) A libcurl function was given a bad argument” occurs when attempting to update Git for Windows using the git update-git-for-windows command. This issue arises due to a problem with the curl library used by Git. Root Cause The root cause of this error is a faulty or outdated curl … Read more
Summary The issue presented is a “Working directory has unstaged changes” error when attempting to push commits to a GIT repository, despite the working directory being clean and having no unstaged changes. This error occurs during the push operation, specifically when using the –force-with-lease option, and is reported by the remote repository. Root Cause The … Read more
Summary The UnboundLocalError in Python occurs when a variable is referenced before it is assigned a value within a local scope. In the context of the provided example, this error arises when attempting to update a variable from an outer function (closure) within an inner function. The issue stems from Python’s scoping rules, which treat … Read more
The question revolves around the possibility of creating a custom driver for Citus, a sharded PostgreSQL solution, to enable clients to query shards directly, thereby bypassing the coordinator node. This inquiry stems from concerns about the coordinator’s role as a potential single point of failure and its impact on throughput. Root The root cause of … Read more
# Postmortem: Inability to Access SSL Certificate Attributes in Dart http ## During a routine API call using Dart’s `http` package, an engineer attempted to read the SSL certificate attributes (subject, issuer, serial number) of the server after a successful HTTPS request. The operation failed because the `http` package does not expose this information through … Read more
# Production Postmortem: Unreleased WebSocket Connections Preventing Garbage ## A JavaScript WebSocket implementation was leaking connections because new connections were created without closing existing ones. Overwriting the reference to the old connection did not automatically trigger garbage collection or socket cleanup, leading to resource exhaustion. ## Root – The `ws` variable was reassigned to a … Read more
Unexpected MySQL Boolean Full-Text Search behavior where tilde ~ operator boosts relevance scores instead of demoting Observed in MySQL 8.0.40 when using MATCH() AGAINST(… IN BOOLEAN MODE) with ~term Contradicts official MySQL documentation stating ~ should decrease relevance Root Term demotion via ~ doesn’t function as pure subtraction in relevance Relevance scores are composites of: … Read more