Coding Interruptus

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Building the next v4v.app v2

This is a value for value post: see the explanation in the footer.

Doing the Work

I started off the day doing the work.

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  • I got the all import Dark Mode selector on the site;
  • a Language selector (because I'm determined to make the next site in Spanish and whatever other languages the Hive team can help me with);
  • I added an indicator for whether Keychain is installed;
  • I installed the hive-tx-js library by @mahdiyari

Hive-tx-js Needs a bit more Discussion

I say I installed hive-tx-js but actually I don't think I did. I tried the yarn add hive-tx way of doing this but try as I might I couldn't find the right magic spell to get that into my code.

In the end I copied a file called hive-tx.min.js which I got from Github into the assets folder on my site and when I want to use it I include import "src/assets/hive-tx.min.js" in my code.

I'd love to know if there is a better way to do this and I really do need to learn a whole lot more about how Javascript handles 3rd party libraries and importing. I'm pretty clueless about this stuff right now but I'll learn.

And then the interruption

At some point this afternoon I started listening to the second half of the @cttpodcast from Saturday night which I was on for the first hour but then dropped off.

I started listening on a newly released Beta version of the Fountain Podcasting App. As I listened I started streaming sats and after a couple of payments I noticed that my Telegram internal notification system was going nuts with errors:

Behind the Scenes on V4V for Podcasters

This system has been very reliable for over a year now so this is kinda rare.

That itemID is supposed to be an integer (int) but Fountain's new version was sending this string.

Fortunately I jumped on Podcastindex.social and Oscar Merry responded very quickly and fixed this immediately. This left me with a few messed up payments in my database and because these have already been sent by Fountain and received by my Lightning Node I can't really change them.

I'm actually stuck now permanently accounting for this mistake in my code (at least until I clear down my Lightning Node's database at some point which I will probably have to do one day).

Special code for special issues

That's all for today

I leave you with the show we recorded on Saturday night. I think the discussion I was involved in at the start with @theycallmedan and @starkerz is particularly important for a whole bunch of Bitcoin Maxis who'll never listen to it. Their loss.

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"-js" part is usually not in the package name of npm packages
It is hive-tx
https://www.npmjs.com/package/hive-tx

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I did install it right but can't figure out how to import from that into a Vue 3 spa. Any suggestions?

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You import it like any other npm package.

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If I do yarn add hive-tx (without -js).

Then I put in my vue component:

import { hiveTx } from "hive-tx"

I immediately get this:

ReferenceError: Buffer is not defined

I've tried adding Buffer but fundamentally there's some issue here with using things that want to be running via Node and I do not understand the Javascript universe well enough to understand this.

There's some magic I'm missing that nobody ever talks about.

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You can use the minified JS if that's the case. There are ways to define Buffer in different environments though. For example in Angular adding the following to the polyfills.ts file would do the trick.

global.Buffer = global.Buffer || require('buffer').Buffer;
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I've added this to quasar.conf:

    boot: ["i18n", "axios", "buffer"],

And created a file buffer.js in the boot folder:

import { boot } from "quasar/wrappers"
import { Buffer } from "buffer"

export default boot(({ app }) => {
  app.config.globalProperties.$Buffer = Buffer
})

and hive-tx still throws this error:

vue-router.mjs:3472 ReferenceError: Buffer is not defined
    at node_modules/hive-tx/transactions/signTransaction.js

Nothing is ever as easy as yarn add ... with javascript or so it seems to me.

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I don't know why no matter how much I tried to learn the coding and programming stuff, I always give up along the journey due to the complexity

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What a great thing to know about coding, technology advancement is life and fun to those that truly love it

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Sometime maintenance eats from our creative and developing time and when there is a Production issue, nothing else matters (Metallica: Nothing Else Matters). As compared to you I've started my work day lazily (working from home allows that), but I recouped that in the afternoon when my hunger to write automation tests in Java got me. And while I had few failures, I succeeded to run some successful tests. Time to close the day on a positive note, so I've stopped.

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Coding and programming is a very great thing but I don't have interest in it.
It looks like it will be quite difficult
Hahaha

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As you said Spanish version will be next in this website, when can we expect the Hindi version of it?
Love From India.

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My goal is to have a project up on the web where anyone can translate all the phrases I use in the code.

The discipline from my side is never to write something directly in the code and always use a field from a translation table. Then you'll be able to go in and translate to any other language, even using google as a starting point and just correct things for your native language.

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Ok. Thanks for the straight forward explanation.

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I've been cringing while thinking about diving deep into JS. I feel like it's probably a necessary evil though at this point.

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I used to code a long time ago, but I've lost most of my skill now. One day maybe I'll return to dabbling in coding.

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It's great that you've done it the way we've been seeing the Spanish people for the last few days coming over it and you've now thought that there should be a Spanish version so that's a lot. It is a good thing and like the rest of the countries, can it be here in the Pakistani language as well. Because even here in Pakistan people are seeing and doing this kind of work with great interest, I myself have brought many of my friends to this platform.

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