Week 34 - 2020

The weeknote for 8/17 - 8/23.

OSS

Rebased #5276 to land it finally! It needed some work. Deno core seems still developing quite quickly.
Posted #7127, a minor fix in build process. The above change extracts the typescript version from typescript's bundled source code. I learned several APIs in rust's std library in it. I was impressed by chars() method of string, which returns a iterator of chars. You can call methods like skip_while or take_while on it. It feels very high level language, but its actual meaning is very low level.

Gave up using @lepont/share and therefore react-native-share for sharing images in android devices because it seemed broken on Huawei devices. I started looking for the way to "save" the image on the device instead of "share". First I tried <a download> tag in webview for saving images. This would be the simplest one if it would have worked but it doesn't work because android doesn't handle data: scheme (This was quite surprising to me because data uri has been a part of web standard for years). Then I tried @react-native-community/cameraroll. This worked on iOS, but it didn't on android. The library doesn't work with base64 images on Android devices. That was a known issue. Next week I'll try react-native-fs for saving the images first on android devices, and then save it using cameraroll. I wish it will work.

I changed the APIs of main entry hook this week in #4.

Before it was:

const registry = useRegistry();
useBridge(registry, name, impl);

Now it is:

const [ref, onMessage] = useBridge((registry) =>
  registry.register(name, impl)
);

This is simpler, clearer, well-typed. I like this version very much!

Iyo-chan and I went to Takano Fruit Parlour on Sunday. It was absolutely, stunningly delicious!! It was a little pricey, but I recommend this place to everyone, especially the visitors from abroad should go there if you have time. We had Seasonal Trifle of Peach (front) and Fruit Plate of Peach (back).

#kt3kmeal 桃のフルーツトライフル、桃のフルーツプレート pic.twitter.com/A3o0yyywMD
— Yoshiya Hinosawa (@kt3k) August 23, 2020