Author: Mark

  • Sword and Fairy 1 (2024) Drama Review – part 2

    Episode 22 So Bai Yue shows up and realistically with this many opponents he really shouldn’t be able to beat them. Mr Shi’s self sacrifice attack should also realistically damage him at least, but this episode is to show how overpowered he is. Again, I really liked the changes they made to Mr Shi. Also…

  • Sword and Fairy 1 (2024) Drama Review – part 1

    When I was a kid, I played a chinese RPG on PC called “The Legend of Sword and Fairy” (仙剑奇侠传) also known as ‘Chinese Paladin’. It was awesome, still is. One of my favourite games of all time. It just had everything: you visit all kind of places, fight a huge variety of enemies, learn…

  • Making a number only text input

    On your input add this This will only allow number characters This will allow 1 decimal to be added in addition to numbers

  • How to export an apk file for testing

    In the terminal run these commands: Then the apk file is here:

  • How to fix NativeEventEmitter warning

    I was getting the warning: new NativeEventEmitter() was called with a non-null argument without the required removeListeners method. I was using React Native Sound and to fix the warning I add the below lines of code to this file in the react-native-sound module: react-native-sound/android/src/main/java/com/zmxv/RNSound/RNSoundModule.java

  • Copying a state variable’s value

    To copy the value of a variable declared using useState, if it’s an array use: let varName = […stateVar]; If it’s not an array use: let varName = stateVar.valueOf();

  • Creating an array of empty arrays

    If you do: let arr = new Array(5); arr.fill([]); This will make an array of 5 identical arrays where editing one will update all which is rarely what anyone wants. To achieve an array of different arrays use: let arr = Array.from(new Array(5), () => [])

  • Update all dependencies in package.json to latest

    To do this, use npm-check-updates Install with Then update with

  • Accessible hash links

    This is mainly for the ‘skip to content’ links. $(“a[href^=’#’]”).not(“a[href]=’#'”).click(function() {    $(“#”+$(this).attr(“href”).slice(1)+””).focus(); });

  • Difference between var, let and const

    var declarations are globally scoped or function scoped while let and const are block scoped. This means you can declare the a let or const with the same name inside an if statement and it will be self contained. The console would log “aa bb” followed by “a b”. Let and const can’t be redeclared in…