Monthly Archives: October 2020

[Simple English] What the and Why the heck is Javascript’s problem of (a)synchronicity?

I KNOW RIGHT. I mean, what the heck. What is this promise thingy? Why wait with await? If there is something called async, then is there sync as well? Does this all seem a bit too overbearing for you? It sure did for me when started to learn Javascript.

I blinded myself to not think these topics through and that wasn’t very constructive. Let’s not fight this. Let’s clear the slate and clear the mind to understand these concepts. Frantic blog reading and trying out different Stackoverflow solutions wouldn’t help you this time. Let’s take this one step at a time and understand Javascript’s asynchronous nature.

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Adding Appimages to Xubuntu menu, Ubuntu applications and run them on Sudo by default

Appimages are quite frankly great. One easy to use executable binary that can package all dependencies of the application and can be shipped to end users without any need for instructions or configuration by the user. With great ease of use, comes little sacrifice as you might notice application that are Appimages don’t really appear in Linux menu, whisker menu, quick launcher, desktop icons and almost anywhere on the GUI. How to solve this, glad you asked!

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