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by Frank Lin
Get a JavaScript array with unique values
As I need to update an array in Firestore with duplicate-free values, let's summarise the methods I found and see how they perform.
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by Frank Lin
Loop with async and await in JavaScript
Well, just got some problems in JavaScript loop with http request inside. Take a short note showing how to deal with it which got ideas from the post JavaScript: async/await with forEach().
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by Frank Lin
National Geographic Photo of the Day Downloader for Mac OSX
A shell script to automate the process of downloading National Geographic photo of the day. The script downloads the photo of the day in the same directory that it resides. You can use cron to make it automatically running everyday.
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by Frank Lin
npm install, concerns for me
While learning node.js, install packages is a commonly operation. However, as a newbie, I might install the packages not in the right way. So taking this note to refresh my mind on the npm install.
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by Frank Lin
Fetch lyric from QQ music using Ajax, with simple example
Get lyric for music can be easily done by several 3rd-party services. Especially in Foobar, the ESLyric component makes it easy to auto-fetch .lrc by JavaScript. But sometimes it may fail to work for certain music or from a certain lyric provider. Recently, as I installed a newer version of foobox, I found the lyrics from QQ music is getting some problems with the built-in script. So I would like to know what happens and try to fix it.
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