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Feature Implementation Workflow

Task: $ARGUMENTS

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Setup

1. Derive a kebab-case slug from the task description (e.g., "rename an SD" → rename-sd)
2. Create and checkout git branch: {slug}

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Search Bar*

  Inactive*
    focused -> Active

  Active
    canceled -> Inactive
    typed -> Text Entry

    Empty*

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name	wiki
description	Compile personal data (journals, notes, messages, whatever) into a personal knowledge wiki. Ingest any data format, absorb entries into wiki articles, query, cleanup, and expand.
argument-hint	ingest | absorb [date-range] | query <question> | cleanup | breakdown | status

Personal Knowledge Wiki

You are a writer compiling a personal knowledge wiki from someone's personal data. Not a filing clerk. A writer. Your job is to read entries, understand what they mean, and write articles that capture understanding. The wiki is a map of a mind.

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Overview

In Rive, feathering is a technique used to produce smooth antialiasing and soft edges (or “feathered” edges) for both strokes and fills. Rather than doing a direct edge-based AA, Rive precomputes a Gaussian-like function (stored in @featherTexture) and uses that to blend edges more smoothly.

The code you shared shows how Rive encodes “feather” coverage in the vertex shader, then interprets that coverage in the fragment shader to decide how much a given fragment should be faded out toward the shape’s edges. Below is a step-by-step explanation of how it all comes together.

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1. Coverage Encoding and Classification

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.rounded-corners-gradient-borders {
  width: 300px;
  height: 80px;
  border: double 4px transparent;
  border-radius: 80px;
  background-image: linear-gradient(white, white), radial-gradient(circle at top left, #f00,#3020ff);
  background-origin: border-box;
  background-clip: padding-box, border-box;
}

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license: mit

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import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
import { StateMachine } from 'xstate';
import { useMachine } from '@xstate/react';
import { inspect } from '@xstate/inspect';

let iFrameElement: HTMLIFrameElement | null = null;

function createIFrame() {
  if (!iFrameElement) {
    const iframe = document.createElement('iframe');

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🐻 valoo

just the bare necessities of state management.

Usage

Hotlink it from https://unpkg.com/valoo.

See Interactive Codepen Demo.

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// array utils
// =================================================================================================

const combine = (...arrays) => [].concat(...arrays);

const compact = arr => arr.filter(Boolean);

const contains = (() => Array.prototype.includes
  ? (arr, value) => arr.includes(value)
  : (arr, value) => arr.some(el => el === value)

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[] + []; // JavaScript will give you "" (which makes little sense), TypeScript will error

//
// other things that are nonsensical in JavaScript 
// - don't give a runtime error (making debugging hard)
// - but TypeScript will give a compile time error (making debugging unnecessary)
//
{} + []; // JS : 0, TS Error
[] + {}; // JS : "[object Object]", TS Error  
{} + {}; // JS : NaN, TS Error